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June 17th, 2010 11:00
Alienware Area 51 PowerPC Processor driver issue
I've seen other talking about this but no definitive answer. I've done a clean install of Windows 7 Professional 64-bit on an Alienware Area 51 desktop. I downloaded and installed all the drivers from Dell and updated the BIOS to version A08 but I still have a yellow exclamation for PowerPC Processor under Other Devices. I tried looking at Intel for a driver and couldn't find anything but utilities. Intel's Processor ID Utility verifies that the processor is an IntelCore i7 930 CPU @ 2.80GHz. Does anyone have any answers for what I need to install?
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June 21st, 2010 14:00
SOLVED!
Answering my own post to help anyone who might run into this. I finally caved in and looked at the Vendor ID of the hardware that was missing a driver. It actually had nothing to do with the PowerPC Processor but was rather the EVGA Killer Xeno Pro network card. Dell did have a driver under network devices called Killer NIC 128mb PCIe from Bigfoot but I wasn't aware I need it. This machine was purchased for a faculty member who need the high end graphics and power supply and isn't going to be gaming so thus my ignorance on the special configuration.