thewizardoz

On 11/14/2019 at 2:37 PM, Klem said:

Hi!

Yes, to unlock your bios, send me your file bios backup from your laptop. 

For creating backup of bios use attached utility. Extract attached archive directly on the Desktop and run the backup tool as Administrator (right click mouse).  Utility will create archive "results" directly on the Desktop. Send me this archive "results" via PM or or upload it to any fileserver and post the link.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/mxoavw

or

http://www120.zippyshare.com/v/NC9WuxRI/file.html

Thanks Klem.

I've uploaded my results to https://www.sendspace.com/file/j9dyg5

I noticed that there were a lot of errors listed in the info.txt file but I have no idea what they mean.

Regards,

Mark

Hiya Klem!

Looks like you've been doing a lot of great work for people. I am sure that they are very grateful.

I have notice a few other people inquiring with you regarding the A15 BIOS for the Alienware M17x R4 and asking for you to unlock it but I don't think that I've seen anyone send the standard A15 BIOS dump to you. Have you got an A15 BIOS that you've already unlocked or do you need me to upload mine to ask you to unlock it?

Let me know please mate. Thanks a lot.

On 11/27/2012 at 9:39 AM, svl7 said:

Yes, everything just as in the stock A12 bios, except for the mentioned tweaks and the additional menus.

Hiya svl7!! Thanks for all of the great work you've done and advice given.

I know these AW M17xR3s are getting old but some of us cannot afford to update at this time. I am on a disabilty pension so money is very tight.

I have had unlocked A8, A10 and A12 BIOSs for this laptop for some time now and tried all three - I think I'm using the unlocked A 12 at the moment.

There still seems to be something or some things lacking (not visible, not available or unlocked) e.g. individual options or additional menus. Is it possible to unlock everything  (options) that are still locked or not visible please?

If you are not interested or unwilling to have another look at this BIOS to see and then unlock further options or functions that could be unlocked, could you please at least let me know what you used to view, access and edit (unlock) the options in this BIOS?? I'm hoping that whatever apps you used have some sort of GUI interface as I am not very comfortable with HEX editing.

I look forward to ANY assistance from you mate.

Thanks again.

On 26/07/2011 at 9:58 AM, DaneGRClose said:

There you go If anyone sees something promising or wants to see the sub menus or selection options let me know as there is a lot of stuff in there that I don't know what it is. The one thing that could be promising that I wish I hadn't sold my 120hz screen for is if the IGP is disabled it may make the 120hz screen+AMD combo possible. If Nvidia's 580 wasn't so ridiculously priced it wouldn't matter, but let's face it, $600 for one card is asinine.

Hiya Dane!

Is it possible to unlock everything please?

Thanks.

"Not allowed" to download this Bios file!! Why not??

On 06/02/2015 at 10:29 PM, d3nver said:

Hello,

Could you tell me if K5000m will work on my alienware 17 ? I have now GTX 770M and i think to change it for K5000m but i don't know if it will work, and where to find vbios with a little bit higher clock : about 800/2000 thanks in advance !

G'day!

I have a Quadro K4000M with 4GB memory working fine in my M17x R3.

It was a cheap way of getting an Nvidia card with a decent amount of memory for my M17x.

It WASN'T listed as an "Alienware" part on eBay, it was listed as a "Dell" part on there so that's why it was very cheap.