most definitely I am seeing fan-revving numerous times on start-up & an extra 'whoosh' a second before shut-down. Somewhere up there in my wall-of-text I believe I mentioned numerous episodes of fans revvving, never seen it b4. Two of my Aliens have had a mthrbrd swap; they too are on W10 Preview & they exhibit the multiple-revvings on start-up so it is a software issue, I'm sure of it. The lights turn on & off a bunch as well before I reach the desktop; it happens on CmndCntr 2.08.09 & 2.08.11, both do it.
I'm glad the hybrid-change helped your vents shut. Last I checked my Aurora R4 was fine on W10. Hopefully we've seen the 'worst' of it here (= Don't need no more problems here! Tired a problems! lol ...
Are you having weird extra fan flare-ups and vent opening and closings on startup with your Area-51 machine(s)? What I was seeing while testing the WIN10 preview with mine was that instead of a single fan speed-up and vent opening and closing while booting, I was getting the fan speed-up and vent opening and closing 3 or 4 times. Also, when shutting down the fans would flare up after the vents closed, just before the system powered off. There was never any fan speed increase during shut-down before on Windows 7. I tried changing the "Hybrid Shutdown" setting in the "Change what the Power Button Does" menu. That setting fixed the issue with the vents not closing at all during shut-down, but the extra fan speed-ups and the extra vent openings and closings remained. None of the other "USB Sleep" or "Hibernate/Hybrid Shutdown" settings I adjusted made a difference in this problem.
Also, thanks for your work in general, and also for your post above. So far, when I have had a problem with my Area 51 your forum posts almost always lead to an answer :)
Interesting. I'm on the original motherboard in mine. The only changes I have made were a new GPU, an SSD and 2 new HDDs, switching the cooler fan to blow into the case, and adding 2 intake fans in the top of the case.
As I never moved to Win8/8.1, I am wondering if you (or anyone else) were getting that extra Fan and Vent action in Windows 8/8.1? If not, maybe the weird behavior could be narrowed down to some setting that is exclusive to Windows 10. Here is to hoping :)
My two great claims to fame: I've never heard the song Thriller by Michael Jackson & I've never used W8.
In the next week or so, W8-Nation will inform us (though I've yet to hear a complaint about it). My W10 post above was vetted using the original x58 Alienboard; symptoms (lights/vents/fans/shut-down whoosh) were a smidge more pronounced on that board then the other two (Intel/AMD); all three had vents that didn't close & needed the tweak. I do recall now there were times on shut-down when I got an orange screen that said: waiting for an app to close > .netframework (details pertained to AlienLabs, obvious CmndCntr issue), so I believe I did a forced-app shut-down, hopefully that goes away as a Preview glitch; I can't remember which Alien that happened to, I shrugged it off as the cost of doing business with W10. Thumb's up on your mods.
Congrats on windows 10. I am having no luck on startup. Most times I get two restarts with IRQL errors (or variations of them) then the third restart goes to the desktop where windows 10 runs flawlessly. Through the magic of ACRONIS, I have tried all variations of upgrading (with mio unplugged, with it plugged in, etc). My command center runs flawlessly on any upgrade scenario. I even tried a complete clean install on windows 10 and I get the same start up issues then the third goes to desktop. Sometimes it shows me the iastorA.sys as a descriptor. Intel RST and everything else updated to most recent drivers. Could it be my RAID 0? Running basically a stock Area 51 ALX with dual 295's, bios A11. Have any suggestions? AW Area 51 ALX Bios-A11 CC-2.8.9.0 Processor-I975 3.33 OC 3.83 RAM-6 GB 1333 Video Card-Dual NVidia GTX295 Video Driver-341.92 Sound Card-SB X-FI Titanium Hard Drive-Dual 300G, 10K RPM RAID 0 Spare 640G HDD For System Back-Up Images Optical Drive-DVD DH-24/Blu-Ray BH-30N Monitor-Dell ST2421L Keyboard-AW TactX Mouse-AW TactX OS-Win 7 Pro 64bit
i've recently bought a area 51 with some recent mods ( 256GB SSD + 3TB SATA Drives; NVIDIA STRIX 960 gtx 4GB and gskill 3x 4GB DDR3 1066Mhz)
First i did a full clean up of the internals, so it looks like new inside.
In the begining gave me a fight on installing the OS from scratch, but I've managed to do a clean Windows 10 install from a USB Pen, and after some tips from this topic i've put the Control Center working too.
Tested some racing simulation games (iRacing, Assetto Corsa, Race Room) and until now i'm quite happy with the performance!
I have still some issues:
The side doors have some parts that came loose, including the ones that stick the door to the chassi.... What glue do you suggest to fix this parts (metal to plastic)
The top leds don't work. Any help on how to fix this? is it a common problem?
I have some drivers missing (Sata Controler) I've tried to install the drivers for windows 7 available on dell website but it keeps showing with an exclamation mark on device manager (missing drivers)
1. The side doors have some parts that came loose, including the ones that stick the door to the chassi.... What glue do you suggest to fix this parts (metal to plastic)
2. The top leds don't work. Any help on how to fix this? is it a common problem?
3. I have some drivers missing (Sata Controler) I've tried to install the drivers for windows 7 available on dell website but it keeps showing with an exclamation mark on device manager (missing drivers)
Any tips to fix this issues?
1. Epoxy?
2. Check wiring and that Lighting Zone in Alien-FX
3. I think Area51-R1 has 2 extra SATA-Controllers. One for the External e-Sata port and I think also one for the Optical Bays (since it does 6 HDD on side). Look for Silicon-Image (SIL) and J-Micron.
Did you try getting an updated driver from Windows-Update online?
Tesla1856
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March 28th, 2015 14:00
Thanks for testing and detailed posting.
Good to see that Alienware desktop machines with discrete MIO-Boards have a chance of running Windows-10 RTM on release.
anathema1
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March 29th, 2015 03:00
Great news! So glad to see you got it working, I'll be upgrading mine to 10 since I skipped 8. Thanks as always for all the good info. :)
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July 23rd, 2015 19:00
thanx for your end statements (=
most definitely I am seeing fan-revving numerous times on start-up & an extra 'whoosh' a second before shut-down. Somewhere up there in my wall-of-text I believe I mentioned numerous episodes of fans revvving, never seen it b4. Two of my Aliens have had a mthrbrd swap; they too are on W10 Preview & they exhibit the multiple-revvings on start-up so it is a software issue, I'm sure of it. The lights turn on & off a bunch as well before I reach the desktop; it happens on CmndCntr 2.08.09 & 2.08.11, both do it.
I'm glad the hybrid-change helped your vents shut. Last I checked my Aurora R4 was fine on W10. Hopefully we've seen the 'worst' of it here (= Don't need no more problems here! Tired a problems! lol ...
rr1107
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July 23rd, 2015 19:00
Cass,
Are you having weird extra fan flare-ups and vent opening and closings on startup with your Area-51 machine(s)? What I was seeing while testing the WIN10 preview with mine was that instead of a single fan speed-up and vent opening and closing while booting, I was getting the fan speed-up and vent opening and closing 3 or 4 times. Also, when shutting down the fans would flare up after the vents closed, just before the system powered off. There was never any fan speed increase during shut-down before on Windows 7. I tried changing the "Hybrid Shutdown" setting in the "Change what the Power Button Does" menu. That setting fixed the issue with the vents not closing at all during shut-down, but the extra fan speed-ups and the extra vent openings and closings remained. None of the other "USB Sleep" or "Hibernate/Hybrid Shutdown" settings I adjusted made a difference in this problem.
Also, thanks for your work in general, and also for your post above. So far, when I have had a problem with my Area 51 your forum posts almost always lead to an answer :)
rr1107
29 Posts
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July 23rd, 2015 19:00
Interesting. I'm on the original motherboard in mine. The only changes I have made were a new GPU, an SSD and 2 new HDDs, switching the cooler fan to blow into the case, and adding 2 intake fans in the top of the case.
As I never moved to Win8/8.1, I am wondering if you (or anyone else) were getting that extra Fan and Vent action in Windows 8/8.1? If not, maybe the weird behavior could be narrowed down to some setting that is exclusive to Windows 10. Here is to hoping :)
Thanks again :)
Cass-Ole
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July 23rd, 2015 20:00
My two great claims to fame: I've never heard the song Thriller by Michael Jackson & I've never used W8.
In the next week or so, W8-Nation will inform us (though I've yet to hear a complaint about it). My W10 post above was vetted using the original x58 Alienboard; symptoms (lights/vents/fans/shut-down whoosh) were a smidge more pronounced on that board then the other two (Intel/AMD); all three had vents that didn't close & needed the tweak. I do recall now there were times on shut-down when I got an orange screen that said: waiting for an app to close > .netframework (details pertained to AlienLabs, obvious CmndCntr issue), so I believe I did a forced-app shut-down, hopefully that goes away as a Preview glitch; I can't remember which Alien that happened to, I shrugged it off as the cost of doing business with W10. Thumb's up on your mods.
AndrewSi
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July 25th, 2015 01:00
Alienware what now???
No longer a Area 51???
Rich Dewees
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January 9th, 2016 08:00
miguelgoncalves
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March 17th, 2016 08:00
i've recently bought a area 51 with some recent mods ( 256GB SSD + 3TB SATA Drives; NVIDIA STRIX 960 gtx 4GB and gskill 3x 4GB DDR3 1066Mhz)
First i did a full clean up of the internals, so it looks like new inside.
In the begining gave me a fight on installing the OS from scratch, but I've managed to do a clean Windows 10 install from a USB Pen, and after some tips from this topic i've put the Control Center working too.
Tested some racing simulation games (iRacing, Assetto Corsa, Race Room) and until now i'm quite happy with the performance!
I have still some issues:
Any tips to fix this issues?
Thanks!
Miguel
Tesla1856
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March 17th, 2016 13:00
1. Epoxy?
2. Check wiring and that Lighting Zone in Alien-FX
3. I think Area51-R1 has 2 extra SATA-Controllers. One for the External e-Sata port and I think also one for the Optical Bays (since it does 6 HDD on side). Look for Silicon-Image (SIL) and J-Micron.
Did you try getting an updated driver from Windows-Update online?