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February 22nd, 2010 14:00

Alienware Area-51 Lighting Problem

Hello guys. I am new here on the forums, and was looking to see if anyone can give me a hand.

I just got my new Alienware Area-51 today, and all was working fine until I restarted the system for the first time. Upon restart, the lighting on the right side of the case (HDD Side) started acting up. At first, the light started flickering a bit, and afterwards, it just went out. I went ahead and opened Command Center to see what happened. I tried changing the lighting colors, and the lights started working, but not normal. When I selected the RED color, the light went extremely dim to the point that you can only see it with the lights off, and when I change it to other colors, it does not change to what I pick. I select green, and I get purple. I select white, and I get blue. All the other lights work fine, the ventiing system works like normal. Just that one side lighting.

So I tried updating command center, and it installed the latest firmware, with no change. BIOS is up to date with A03, and all latest updates for the system from Dell website. Anyone experience this? Do you guys think it is related to the MIO board or is it the LED itself?

Specs:

Area 51 Cosmic Black 1.1KW

Intel Core i7 975 Extreme

6GB DDR3 1333

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium

640GB GB HDD

 

Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.

265 Posts

February 22nd, 2010 14:00

Ahh. Sounds Good. Still discovering all the sections of this forum. lol.

 

Thanks I will just repost it in there.

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February 22nd, 2010 14:00

m3th0d1c4l  

A better section to post this in, would be the Gaming > Alienware forum HERE.

Bev.

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