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Aurora-R3, 2009, clean install of OS
So I need some help guys, and i’ll admit. I am not very technically savvy. I picked up a 2009 Alienware Aurora (i7-970) i’ll post the full specs on the bottom. It was $200 refurbished so I figured why not? I’m only going to be playing WoW on it, so I figured it should be plenty of computer for WoW. The problem i’m having is that it did not come with an operating system. I’ve never installed an operating system but I tried the windows 10 boot from flash drive option, and it didn’t work. Not sure if the flash drive was too new for the computer or too old for windows 10; or if the computer itself is too old to run windows 10, but I need any and all suggestions on how to get ANY operating system on there so that I can slap World of Warcraft on there and play with my friends.
Thank you!
Specs/components:
• (1) - DELL ALIENWARE AURORA DESKTOP GAMING PC
• (1) - INTEL CORE I7-920 2.67GHZ CPU PROCESSOR LGA 1366 LGA1366 2.67 GHZ QUAD CORE
• (1) - EVGA GEFORCE GTX 285 01G-P3-1180-AR 1GB 512-BIT DDR3 PCI EXPRESS 2.0 X16
• (1) - SEAGATE BARRACUDA 7200.12 ST3500418AS 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB CACHE
• (4) - KINGSTON 1GB PC3-10600 DDR3-1333MHZ NON-ECC UNBUFFERED CL9 240-PIN DIMM KTW149-ELD
• (2) - CRUCIAL 4GB PC3-10600 DDR3-1333MHZ NON-ECC UNBUFFERED CL9 240-PIN DIMM CT51264BA1339.C16FKR
• (1) - DVD RW DRIVE
• (1) - POWER CORD
Tesla1856
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June 26th, 2018 11:00
Well, with an Intel i7-970 (or i7-720) and LGA-1366 socket ... sounds like an Aurora-R1 to me. However, it's strange that memory DIMMs are installed in pairs instead of sets of three (tri-channel).
If Aurora-R1, like this:
https://www.dell.com/community/Alienware-General/Alienware-Aurora-R1-Windows-10-Pro-Upgrade-Smooth-sailing-so-far/td-p/5512004
If truly a Aurora-R3, then like this (XPS-8300 is same tech and motherboard is very similar )
https://dell.com/community/Vostro/Vostro-460-XPS-8300-Upgrade-Adventures/m-p/6054983#M1213
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June 26th, 2018 12:00
Hey Tesla, just real quick i’m Not sure if the first article goes into how to boot up from bios, it sounds like for your R1 you already had an operating system in place and you just upgraded. Correct if i’m wrong of course, just don’t see that first link working for me because there’s no OS at all on the PC right now
Tesla1856
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June 26th, 2018 12:00
Should be like this:
https://dell.com/community/Alienware-Desktops/M-2-NVMe-bootable-options/td-p/6073037
and maybe still a bit like this (since it's non-UEFI):
https://dell.com/community/Alienware-General/1-How-to-Clean-install-Windows-7-64-bit-on-Alienware-Desktop/td-p/5588705