jzp-techinferno Posted April 29, 2012 Share Posted April 29, 2012 ...and I'm having trouble finding proper references to disassembly. This past week, my wife's 2009 (April order, delivery was much later in the year likely due to the dell acquisition) m17x R1 keeled over. It had some video strangeness that I chalked it up to old drivers and was planning to give it a good cleaning and tune-up this weekend. Mistimed. :-( I'm not an overclocker or serious hardware hacker, just a generalist geek that can follow instructions and do minor repairs. All the hardware references I can easily find are clearly post-acquisition "R1" with the beveled front and not the original, flat-front like this one... and the latter one clearly is a better design for cleaning and servicability. The main system fan isn't modular in this model, etc. I've slurped the data from the drive, took that+empty drive bay+RAM+GPUs out and cleaned, patched it all back together and no joy. I've clearly screwed the pooch somewhere along the way, and was hoping someone here might have a pointer for a hardware guide for this puppy. Original spec from order:Area-51® m17x Video/Graphics Card: Dual 512MB NVIDIA® GeForce® Go 8700M GT – SLI Enabled Display: 17" WideUXGA 1920 x 1200 LCD (1200p) with Clearview Technology Keyboard Options: AlienFX® Illuminated Keyboard – Exclusive Design AlienFX®: Alienware® AlienFX® System Lighting - Lime Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T9300 2.5GHz (6MB Cache 800MHz FSB) Operating System (Office software not included): Windows Vista® Ultimate (64-bit Edition) with Service Pack 1 Memory: 8GB Dual Channel DDR2 SO-DIMM at 667MHz – 2 x 4096MBRequires Windows Vista 64-bit Edition Notebook Tuners and Remotes: Internal Digital/Analog (ATSC) MiniCard TV Tuner System Drive: Single Drive Configuration - 320GB 7,200RPM (16MB Cache) w/ Free Fall Protection Optical Drives : 8x Dual Layer Burner (DVD±RW, CD-RW) w/ LightScribe Technology Wireless: Internal Intel® Wireless 4965 a/b/g/Draft-N Mini-Card Sound Card : Internal High-Definition Audio with surround sound Warranty: 2-Year AlienCare Onsite Service and 24/7 Toll-Free Phone Support Power: Additional AC Adapter - Alienware® m17x 230 Watt Auto-switch AC Adapter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder Michael Posted April 30, 2012 Founder Share Posted April 30, 2012 Not sure it's the right model but see if this helps http://nunetherlands.wordpress.com/alienware-m17-r1-disassembly-assembly-guides/Sent from my CM9 powered Galaxy Note Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jzp-techinferno Posted April 30, 2012 Author Share Posted April 30, 2012 Close but no cigar. That front-loading tray in the middle doesn't exist, and the top isn't scalloped [though I can't recall - that may have been an option]. Thanks though! I'll up a pic later today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unreal25 Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 Did you try calling Dell/AW? I would explain that they since they have service manuals up for their recent and current models, it doesn't seem like there should be any reason not to have the old one. Maybe they can mail you the hard copy if nothing else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder Michael Posted April 30, 2012 Founder Share Posted April 30, 2012 (edited) i think this is what you are looking for https://docs.google.com/open?id=0By8u_sp4RHRYc2UwTE5QR1VYYVE edit : ok, i saw that this doc also exists in the first link i provided. This is the M17x-R1 area 51, maybe with slight modifications, you can however use this guide to disassemble yours, as i did without any problems on a computer of a friend. Edited April 30, 2012 by Michael 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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