Hello people. I recently bought the m11xr1 from a friend who did a re-install from the recovery and the lights went out totally. I bought it thinking it might be an easy fix but boy was I wrong..Anyways my problem is kind of unique. The service tag shows this unit was shipped out in April 2011 which sorta conforms with the recovery image made in August 2011. I again reinstalled from the recovery and the dreaded Command Center was already on the latest version for my model. Which made me think how could it corrupt the AlienFX board when my friend re-installed from the recovery? 

Now coming to the weird problem, I don't have any unknown USB devices in the device managers list nor any errors from .Net I can change colors from CC but when I apply it nothing happens no lights anywhere whatsoever! I tried the AlienFx tester which reads my boards version to be 2.00.01 and upgrading to the same. I use to check the SDK folder in the CC directory and the the programs would report ' No AlienFx device found'. I read online to do a power drain with the battery, which I did and now all the programs in the SDK work as they should without any errors. Which means the Master IO board is been detected and communicated to but somehow ALL lights appear off. I don't know if I should do a clean re-install of the OS or open it up and check the main board? And does anyone even know where the FX chip might be located on the M11x?