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December 20th, 2012 01:00

Alienware R4 ALX, Command Center Failure, Fans High

Hi there,

I ordered an Alienware R4 in an ALX chasis and received it a little over a month ago. I am not an avid gamer but do a great deal of video work and digital imaging. I am very comfortable with computers (technology) and teach a course in Communication Technologies. Here is my question/concern, I am not sure who else to ask as I have tried several methods of getting in contact with customer support (currently I am sitting on the phone and have been on hold to get tech support for over three hours - I called at 10:00 and it is now past 1:00 in the morning). Please let me know if there is anyway that you can help me, I have checked forums, followed advice on there (for people who have had similar issues). My new Alienware cost about $3600 and as of yet has seen very little use (due to work) however lately whenever I turn it on the fans are engaged at a very high speed. The control center reads that the temperature is zero throughout the computer and has a message indicating that the cpu pump has failed (again this computer is less than a month old and seen relatively little use). The ALX features are also disabled - there is no access to active venting controls and there is also no case being detected in the led colour mod in the control center (this last one is of little importance but might help identify the idea).

I have uninstalled Command Center and reinstalled it. I have uninstalled Command Center, turned off the computer, unplugged it from the wall and tower, held down the power button for a minute, and then booted up and reinstalled the software. I have read that doing this several times might help. None of these have worked. Can you please help me out and walk me through a solution or give me some sort of suggestion as to how I might receive some sort of costumer support?

Thanks very much.

 

 

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December 20th, 2012 09:00

Hi Crunchygoat,

- Update your BIOS version to the latest one A07

- Try uninstalling and reinstalling the command center one more time, follow the steps from this link.

- Perform a power drain

Please let me know how it goes!

December 20th, 2012 23:00

Hi Karen,

First - thank you very much for the quick response and help.

I updated my Bios to A07 - immediately quieted the fan noise upon restart

I uninstalled command center and then reinstalling (following the steps you provided in the link)

I performed the power drain.

The fan noise has been reduced dramatically however the command center is still not working. I get a 0 degree ambient temperature reading across the board - it says the cpu pump has failed and although I can detect my keyboard and mouse (for the lighting affects) it says that it can not find the body and asks if I would like to remove it from the lighting profiles.  There is also still no ability to adjust the active venting.

I did purchase the A4 but upgraded to an ALX chasis.  As the computer is so new I just want to make sure that I am not going to do any damage by using it.  It seems very odd to me that I should be experiencing a software problem when there has been so little installed after having initially started it up.

Please let me know what to try next,

Thanks again for the time and effort - I appreciate it.

Alan

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December 21st, 2012 00:00

See my post here:

en.community.dell.com/.../20128296.aspx

Paying special attention to "Power Dissipation" fix and testing MIO-Board (outside of Windows) with Dell Diagnostics (PSA - ePSA).

Verify that MIO-Board is still working outside of Windows.

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