*OFFICIAL* Alienware Area-51M R1 Owner's Lounge

Any advice on what AX/wifi 6 wireless card to get for the A51M R1?

 

The one in my signature:

Intel AX210NGW M.2 NGFF WiFi Card Dual Band BT5.2 for PC better than AX200 Card

 

Thanks!

 

Good news for you guys. BGA Nvidia Max P 30XX can't touch you.

 

Hi, the modified vapor heatsink on ebay is useful? Thank you

 

In the last 2-3 days when I boot up or restart, I get a long black screen before the login screen. When that eventually shows its unresponsive for a good 10-15 seconds before it lets me enter my pin. Anyone else had any issues?

If I remove PIN/Password from my account it seems to work fine.

 

This sounds like a "winlogon.exe" issue. If you have a backup of windows or a restore point, I would suggest reverting back. I had something like this a long time ago. (A windows update failed).
Another thing you can try is to reinstall the GPU driver (maybe WDDM is the one responsible and affects the init of the Windows scheduler, etc).

This is defo not a hardware issue, but an annoying software issue

Cheers

 

This stuff never gets old..

 

Ho hai, i've got a question.

I'm using 51m R1, 9900k 2*8gb rtx 2080 full stock, a replacement machine from a faulty 17r3, since august 2019. After one year of use, around august 2020 I have had a bsod and a diagnostic error related to one ram stick. Dell changed the ram stick with the different model/brand than the original one. Fixing the problem but leaving me with 2 different ram sticks.
Instead of two 8gigs hynix, i have now one original hynix plus the replaced stick, an Micron.

After the swap, Dell told me that it was temporary, and when the same stick as the original one is available again, they will change the "temporary micron one" by an hynix one.

I revived my case in october 2020, support told me that the part is still not available.

Before (original setup)


Actual (1 original + 1 replaced stick)


Considering that:
- I havent had any problems with the 2 sticks from different brands since (no crash, no error, no noticeable performance lost).
-The orignal ram stick is not produced anymore, soldeout everywhere ( hma81gs6jjr8n-vk ) so Dell is not going to have new ones I guess.
-The computer support contract end the 6 of march 2021 (its the 17r3 orignal support from march 2016).

Should I relaunch a support ticket? Or its not worth it?
They cant swap the two sticks I guess ('cuz only one was faulty), or if they replace the Micron's one, it will still be with a potentialy different model from the hynix one (or a refurbished one).

Dunno what to do.
contact them and make it worse? or stick with my sticks as everything works

Imagine in a few years, I want to upgrade the ram, is it risky to get 2 more 8g sticks? For a total of 4x8gigs, the Hynix original one, plus the replaced Micron stick, plus the two future new 8g sticks from whatever brand it is.
Maybe ill go for brand new 4*16 gigs, or maybe i wont upgrade at all because i wont feel the need for it, 16gigs are fine for a long time.

Thanks

 

Memory is so cheap, and there is better, why not just get a full new set? Dell's is mediocre anyhow.

EDIT: KHX2666C1554/16G is the memory I replaced with in my system, I run four sticks for 64 GB and it runs on the AW 51 R1 flawlessly (at 2400 though smh).