John Wong

Problem at hand: Auto dim. After it hits a certain threshold on battery life (In this case, it seems to range to anything from 30-50%, which is ridiculous), the monitor gets extremely dim, and my USB ports get disabled. In order to restore normal functionality, I have to plug in the power cord. As you can see, this can be quite annoying. I've already tried adjusting the power settings via CMD (by manually adding in the Scheme_GUID), and tried adjusting it from within the registry by adding the Scheme_GUID there - No dice. I'm most likely going to call Alienware in the AM, but would like to get everyone's opinion here first. Note - I've already gone through several Nvidia drivers, some of which prompt incompatibility issues with my hardware, and others prompting the same error.

Drivers tried:

311.48 (current, recommended drivers from Dell site for my laptop)

320.49

326.41

326.80

Specs are as follows:

Alienware MX17

Windows 8 Home Premium 64 bit

Intel i7-4700 MQ 2.40 GHZ (not overclocked)

Geforce 770M (not overclocked)

Intel HD Graphics 4600

16GB ram

DX version 11

Power settings:

Dim display after: 0 minutes for both (plugged in and on battery)

Turn off display after: Never for both

Display brightness: 100% for both

USB selective suspend setting: Disabled for both

i'm having this problem. same alienware 17

a04 bios

with nvidia 327.23

revert back to dell stock nvidia problem is still there...

Problem at hand: Auto dim. After it hits a certain threshold on battery life (In this case, it seems to range to anything from 30-50%, which is ridiculous), the monitor gets extremely dim, and my USB ports get disabled. In order to restore normal functionality, I have to plug in the power cord.

anyone know of any imaging/cloning software that works for the new alienware 17 with windows 8support?

anyone try upgrading the ram ? Does it only support DDR3l 1.35v ?

Tried 1600mhz ddr3 1.5v ram but it doesn't seem to work.

Just black screen on boot up

hi are you able to upgrade to the latest nvidia driver? currently using alienware 17 with 770m. Still running on dell 311.48 driver

And also does your alienware OSD working? Since day one its running on the default windows 8 OSD...

since day one i receive this alienware m17 r5, only the default OSD is being display.

Was wondering why.

someone was mentioning that by uninstalling nvidia driver 311.48, only the alienware OSD will work.

do not work for me still showing the default windows OSD...

currently using the new alienware 17 r5 with windows 8 64bit

anyone know if this method works on alienware 17 r5 ?

just install a optical cabby bay to replace the DVD rom with a HDD. And from hwinfo the HDD is running on sata 2 speed.

hi does this works on alienware 17 with windows 8 ?

hi does this works for nvidia 770m ?

nope.. have them replace it again. My screen is fine (minus a few adjustments I make in the intel properties).

hi care to share what the few adjustments u made in the intel properties?