*OFFICIAL* M18x R1/R2 Owner's Lounge Thread

[katalin_2003]

Welcome to the Owner's Lounge for the Alienware M18x and Alienware M18x R2

Previous M18x Owner's Lounge can be found here

This thread is a place to discuss your new M18x and share information on your system with fellow owners.

M18x launch video - Alienware M18x laptop Video | Dell

Manuals, Teardown, Drivers, etc.

Manuals (Owners Manual and Service Manual)

M18x R1 - Documentation
M18x R2 - Documentation

M18x Dell Parts List
M18x R1 Parts List - Reference
M18x R1 NVIDIA GPU-Specific Part List - M18x R1 AMD GPU-Specific Parts List
M18x R2 Parts List - Reference

Dell Phone Directory

Spare Parts and Accessories: Purchase your Upgrade, Accessories, or Replacement Parts 1-800-357-3355

For Alienware Support, avoid calling Dell Support. Call 1-800-ALIENWARE whenever possible.

M18x R1 Drivers
Dell Drivers and Downloads | Alienware Laptop M18x R1

M18x R2 Drivers
Dell Drivers and Downloads | Alienware Laptop M18x R2

Benchmarking, Overclocking etc.

CPU Overclocking in the M18x
http://forum.notebookreview.com/alie...ng-thread.html

Benchmark Discussion
*OFFICIAL* Alienware M18x Benchmark Thread - Part 2

Misc. Links

Gaming
M18x Gaming Discussion Thread

Order Status Discussion
M18x Order Status Discussion

Bags, Backpacks, Cases & Sleeves
Sleeves, Backpacks and Cases that would fit the Alienware M18x

Clean Install
HOW TO: Clean Windows 7 Install (Driver Install Order) Guide for Alienware Systems
HOW TO: Clean Windows 8 Install (Driver Install Order) Guide for Alienware Systems
HOW TO: Restore the Alienware 'Look and Feel' after a clean install of Windows 7

Other

LCD DeadPixel Test

***M18x - NVIDIA SLI (Driver Questions, Performance, Problems) Discussion Thread***

***M18x - AMD Crossfire (Driver Questions, Performance, Problems) Discussion Thread***

HOW TO: Monitoring CPU and GPU Temperatures In-Game/In-Benchmark with On-Screen Display

M18x RAM upgrade guide

M18x AlienFX Theme Sharing...

M18x Memory Discussion Thread

Alienware M18x Steam/Origin Friends Conglomerate

Games that Support AlienFX

M18x Car charger?

http://forum.notebookreview.com/alie...ads-posts.html

Congrats on your system purchase! Once you receive it, feel free to show it off... pictures, benchmarks, etc. Have fun!

[Mr. Fox]

Nice! Thanks for the help setting this up, bro. +1.

http://www.alienware.com/Landings/sb...0KctUWi5_HVVHK

[Locutus]

Thanks. The old one was kinda bloated

[faiz23]

you're bloated

[DanXbix]

Looking the the service manual for the m18xr2 and you can install 3x 2.5" hdd/ssd & msata sata drive. i like

[AirJordan]

Any info yet as to whether the screen is any different? The speculation thread on the main Alienware page had someone post that the M18x-R2 has a new part number for the screen, so is it possible that the screen has changed (possibly for the better)?

[Zolutar]

So my system is a few weeks old and I am suffering from bsd's due to the USB 2.0 drivers. Dell already has swapped out the mb and db. However the problem remains. The only way to stop the ports from shutting down and the system blue screening is to disable the webcam and Bluetooth module. Now dell wants me to send the laptop back into depot.

Second problem, after reinstalling windows with the Alienware cd, I am missing all the pre-installed software. Soundbaster mb, dell webcam central, roxio etc. I'm told their should have been a second disk but don't worry, use dell downloads, cept that site is throwing a "service tag is unsupported" error. After being on the phone with dell over an hour on this getting nowhere any insight would be appreciated. Is tech support always this inefficient?

Oh to the poster Martymo1989,in the old lounge thread, I called twice to tech support when I first had the USB problem who the tech forwarded me to some guy answering the phone "hello" having no clue what he was doing, let alone he didn't even work for dell. Seemed like we got the same guy. The tech identified himself as Miguel both calls before forwarding me on. Lol.

Any insight on either issue?

[BlueW01f]

Hey guys, moving from the speculation thread. Further to the 'pausing production to try and get 7970 CFX'. My rep spent all of yesterday trying to cancel my order to wait for the 7970 release without any luck, turns out it had already shipped

By fate Im staying Green Guess I'm an m18x R2 owner now

[Mr. Fox]

Sweet! I like it BlueW01f. Congratulations.

[Joce21]

This is maybe a stupid question and maybe nobody have the answer, but what Dell is waiting for to put 7970m in m18x? They are available in m17x but not m18x. They don't have CFX cable yet?

Was just asking myself...