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March 21st, 2012 07:00
Alienware Area 51 ALX problems.
Hello.
I have always been a huge fan of the Alienware brand...
As for right now, I play Eyefinity with Alienware screens, I have the TactX headset, mouse, both the Alienware bags and a M14X laptop.
But what I always wanted was the Area 51 Chassis, I found it so amazing.
Though I never really liked the price you had to pay for the hardware that goes in to them...
And I like to choose freely 100% my own hardware...
When a friend some weeks back asked me if I would like to buy his Chassis I said yes immediatly.
I went home and put my hardware into the Alienware Chassis.
ASUS Sabertooth 990FX
AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition
Crossfire 6970 Sapphire Radeon.
16 Gig RAM.
And the special 1050 W PSU from Alienware.
Now I get the computer running, but the fans are blasting at 100% wich makes it almost impossible to be in the same room as the machine.
Aswell as the Lightning effects are not working.
The Command Center starts, but it does not show anything, it is just empty, and gives a very long Error messenge when I try to go into the Temp section.
Please help me...
//Marcus
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wvan655614
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April 18th, 2012 22:00
I got to say that it is pretty sad that a admin/moderator will read through an entire page and only comment on profanity, but not on the issue at hand or seek a way to help a consumer even if there is other circumstances. I'll just say on final word on the issue of you putting a new motherboard in the AREA-51 chassis (post dell), you can try as much as you like but you either have to do serious modding or find an oem motherboard, the motherboard is made with a special usb attachment directly on the motherboard made for pretty much solely for the MIO board. I can see this really being an issue with the vents... thanks to the radiator fan all the heat is pulled up and none goes out the rear on these...unless you have a fan at the rear. On mine Im surprised it hasnt started warping the top a little.
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April 19th, 2012 06:00
My thinking was that the answer was clearly put forward as a result of the troubleshooting. But, I will state it for all, the Dell OEM MIO board was never tested in that retail ASUS Sabertooth 990FX motherboard. It is designed to work on our motherboard with our bios. There is no "fix" for this other than getting the Dell OEM Area-51 motherboard.
morblore
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April 19th, 2012 10:00
Is the CPU fan connected to the little blue PCB board up top and near the rear of the case, the one that should have come with the Area 51 case you bought? It goes to the 4-pin labeled System Fan, not the one labeled CPU. Did you plug it in there or directly into the motherboard?
If you plugged it into the mobo then where did you plug in the CPU 4-pin wire coming off the mio board?