*OFFICIAL* M18x Owner's Lounge Thread

[Jonnyboy0022]

Sounds like the ribbon cable came out of the port on the mobo, all you need do is to loosen the black securing clip on the mobo port with a small flat head screwdriver, re-insert the ribbon cable and gently push the securing clip back down to secure the ribbon cable to the mobo.

If you look at the top pic #3, you should be able to make out a small black clip on the port - this lifts up and down (up to free the cable and down to secure it in the port) ad if all that's happened is that the ribbon cable came out of that port/socket, all you need do is re-insert it and re-secure it.

It wont void your warranty - chances are if you damaged the ribbon cable/interposer in any way, you might need a new one which Dell would send you. Not really a job for a tech as its so simple to just retro-fit it yourself.

If there is no damage to the cable/interposer/mobo port you should just be able to reinsert it and you should be golden.

Hey Steve,

I would sincerely like to thank you for replying to my message. I thankfully got it working no harm was done and I'm seriously on top of the moon!!!! For a moment there I thought I damaged it and that it wasn't going to work but for now I'm awesome haha

Also really like to thank tanderson as well you 2 are legends and I wish I could buy you both beers to say thanks!!!! I really do mean this. SO so so so thankful right now

[Jonnyboy0022]

Can someone explain to me why when I installed my Intel 520 240gb ssd and installed windows again that came with the laptop. It said I only had 160gb left from 223gb. How can windows take 63gb??? Is this possible?

[Locutus]

it doesnt. run disc cleanuo and remove SP1 backup files. also empty the recycle bin. make the page file smaller and make the recycle bin reserve smaller

[Jonnyboy0022]

it doesnt. run disc cleanuo and remove SP1 backup files. also empty the recycle bin. make the page file smaller and make the recycle bin reserve smaller

The disc cleanup, does it come with the computer?

Did you get that problem as well with it saying that it installed 63gb?

[steviejones133]

Hey Steve,

I would sincerely like to thank you for replying to my message. I thankfully got it working no harm was done and I'm seriously on top of the moon!!!! For a moment there I thought I damaged it and that it wasn't going to work but for now I'm awesome haha

Also really like to thank tanderson as well you 2 are f'ing legends and I wish I could buy you both beers to say thanks!!!! I really do mean this. SO so so so thankful right now

Just glad to help out Bro, glad you got it sorted and are up and running.

Also, if you cloned your original HDD to your SSD, did you have much stuff on it? - that may account for the lack of storage space. Did you do a clean install to the SSD? - if so, windows shouldnt take up that much space even with SP1 backup files ....and I also assume that you have a Windows 7 SP1 disc that shipped with your system - hence no reason you should have to clean up SP1 backup files in the first place as suggested above, as you would never have had an OS without SP1.

[Jonnyboy0022]

Just glad to help out Bro, glad you got it sorted and are up and running.

Also, if you cloned your original HDD to your SSD, did you have much stuff on it? - that may account for the lack of storage space. Did you do a clean install to the SSD? - if so, windows shouldnt take up that much space even with SP1 backup files ....and I also assume that you have a Windows 7 SP1 disc that shipped with your system - hence no reason you should have to clean up SP1 backup files in the first place as suggested above, as you would never have had an OS without SP1.

I didn't clone my HDD to my SSD. All I did was install ssd put in the windows 7 Pro disc that came with the computer and let it install windows 7 onto the ssd; that's all! When I went into my computer it told me that I was using 63gb of storage just for the OS after the install was complete! Is there a way to get my storage back? Any suggestions steve?

[tanderson]

That probably includes your windows backup files, disable backup if you want will free up disk space (nice to have if you have any issues with windows updates).

Virtual memory can take a huge chunk, be careful with that, depending on how much memory you have, you can drop that.

Couple other things you can do to trim it down from 60 to almost 20 if you really want it running that streamline. There might be some people out there that can help you with these settings or google them, you'll find them fairly quickly

[Jonnyboy0022]

That probably includes your windows backup files, disable backup if you want will free up disk space (nice to have if you have any issues with windows updates).

Virtual memory can take a huge chunk, be careful with that, depending on how much memory you have, you can drop that.

Couple other things you can do to trim it down from 60 to almost 20 if you really want it running that streamline. There might be some people out there that can help you with these settings or google them, you'll find them fairly quickly

Is it worth keeping all the back-ups and everything? Or is it just a waste of space?

[steviejones133]

I didn't clone my HDD to my SSD. All I did was install ssd put in the windows 7 Pro disc that came with the computer and let it install windows 7 onto the ssd; that's all! When I went into my computer it told me that I was using 63gb of storage just for the OS after the install was complete! Is there a way to get my storage back? Any suggestions steve?

63gb seems really excessive. As a comparison to yours, I clean installed Ultimate SP1 via the shipped OS disc to my 512gb raid. As you can see from the pic below, even with drive provisioning, my OS install is far less....and I didnt have to do any cleaning of backup files to create more space etc etc etc.....and I had 476gb free after installing the OS....If it were me, I would be tempted to do a full clean install, delete all partitions to create one large unallocated space and then install the OS to that....there should be no reason for your OS install to take up that much room....

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[Jonnyboy0022]

63gb seems really excessive. As a comparison to yours, I clean installed Ultimate SP1 via the shipped OS disc to my 512gb raid. As you can see from the pic below, even with drive provisioning, my OS install is far less....and I didnt have to do any cleaning of backup files to create more space etc etc etc.....and I had 476gb free after installing the OS....If it were me, I would be tempted to do a full clean install, delete all partitions to create one large unallocated space and then install the OS to that....there should be no reason for your OS install to take up that much room....

Spoiler :

Yeah I'm actually tempted to buy another Intel 520 ssd 240gb and put it in raid 0. Just need to get the extra money first and then install the OS again and see what happens. Have no idea why it would be so stupid to think to install so much. Do you think my ssd could be ed that it can't read the amount of data be transferred?