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You can find unlocked bios for aw laptops here: 

Here is a list of all of the Alienware unlocked BIOS' for laptops that I had saved. All credit goes to their original owners. Flash at your own risk. 

Do NOT post these links elsewhere. If you want to share this publicly, upload the file yourself to your preferred sharing site. I'm missing AW14 A09 unlocked BIOS so if you have it let me know. Otherwise I believe I got the major ones here. 

Alienware M18xR2

A11 Unlocked: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GZ2NztBkAp_Xro1qtxWTIcjDH7CSgb8H/view?usp=sharing 

Alienware M18xR1

A05 Unlocked: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lyjZZ-MfHLx2tA4g_X9HYOSQ7plGoLtB/view?usp=sharing 

A05 Swick Updated: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15hcq2MfaAzIDGlualq35v-MBnji9MXB4/view?usp=sharing 

Alienware 18:

A12 Unlocked: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-mxq9kECuoMW-OwcGxrgIvaguoVWE1xG/view?usp=sharing 

Alienware M17xR4:

A11 Unlocked: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LCiA4JsSHq56tqxnAAznTja9gxQsZ4A_/view?usp=sharing 

A15 Unlocked: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X3lA4FtpY1hy7lywelJMNQgjORUQT4Gm/view?usp=sharing

Alienware M17xR3: 

A12 Unlocked + SATA Fix: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HIJe7_lgBQaQGBJUFZK2vuxYBOy7b8gL/view?usp=sharing 

Alienware M17xR2:

A10 Unlocked V1F: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i_soj-5xFMsJLsv2TC3Hk1ffWaGTW8kP/view?usp=sharing

Alienware 17 R1: 

A14+ Unlocked: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M6QfFKTVQsFWgZTOE_StJNVd5BRwLBi-/view?usp=sharing 

A17+ Unlocked: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15M4yxIoIT3_vmBd3m_MkDeic7ozO4mzi/view?usp=sharing

Alienware M15x (i3/i5/i7):

A09 Unlocked: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13GKcKBiOR8D8OQ8NAj9SMGpKaxbDghk0/view?usp=sharing

Alienware M14xR2:

A13 Unlocked: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EnbZVcqxiwqlcAxla94Nf2tt62dNvPw0/view?usp=sharing

A03 Unlocked: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Pb4XVTPZVURzJfW9fVZItanyRkK2a-tE/view?usp=sharing 

Alienware M14xR1:

A08 Unlocked + SATA Fix: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eeh0sduSnWba6is8OGXkDc2m9zKapPvV/view?usp=sharing 

Alienware M11xR3: 

A05 Unlocked: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D2fWHD7KS1b6tVpiVdl_bGvYYv4KYHh9/view?usp=sharing

On 2/1/2022 at 9:17 PM, kenny27 said:

I am guessing the raptor nvme card drops the primary slot down to x8 does this affect performance compared to x16 at all?

 

No performance loss from what i can see. My AW18 has only the RTX 3000 and has the newer 4930MX CPU. They perform about the same. 

I'm still interested @kenny27

I am still waiting to see if A4500 has offset core or not. the pics are still not finalized. If the whitepaper reveals the core is not offset we may be able to get away without having to have one support offset cores. 

I use SK Hynix 1TB in AW 18 and 980 PRO in M18xR2 so it should not matter. The Raptor card is built well in that any SSD should work even 8TB in theory

Thanks for making the tutorial. I should have taken pics when I did mine lol 

I always wanted a Sony Ericsson P900/P910/P990. 

I had a P800 back in the day. 

Also looking for Lumia 950 XL to enjoy the latest windows phone 

Call of Duty 2 sometimes (PC or XBOX)

Mario Party Superstars

Pokemon Shining Pearl (gotta beat it before Arceus) 

Super Smash Bros Ultimate (rarely)

Battlefield 2042

Y'all don't like the built in keyboard? I like it and never used external keyboards with any of my Alienware laptops. Just use my AW wireless mouse though. 

45 minutes ago, pressing said:

See the XDA link above for clues on using modern big/fast CF and SD cards. You can see the industry standards and timeline for clues about what is possible.

Oh...here is the XDA Windows Mobile forum...with some recent posts

https://forum.xda-developers.com/f/windows-mobile.612/

There was an old HTC forum with a Windows Mobile section but I don't know where that is. Maybe became XDA? There was an old russian forum that was great but don't know if that still exists. . .

4PDA is the russian forum. A LOT of stuff is still hosted there and can still be downloaded. 

I have 128gb sd card and 16-32gb cf cards in mine. 2GB SD in the older ones without SDHC support.

I got 

iPAQ RX 3115 + 2x 3715 running Windows Mobile 2003 SE

iPAQ HX4700 running Windows Mobile 5 (I literally flash this one like once a month. It has firmware from 2003 SE to 6.5 so it's fun to play with)

iPAQ 111 running Windows Mobile 6 

iPAQ 211 running Windows Mobile 6.5

HTC HD2 running Windows Embedded Handheld 6.5 (I go back and forth between this and Windows Phone 7.8 on this one) 

I use them either as IR remote, drawing, or just playing around with super old apps 

3 minutes ago, cucubits said:

I like her taste, lol. Is she set on EV? That's almost 911 territory and you could swipe it for your enjoyment from time to time 😁

 

Forgot I made a video on my car lol: 

She's not into cars. All she told me was I want a Porsche in the future. I told her Taycan it is, it's an EV. She saw the frozen berry color and is set on it now lol. Originally I wanted her to get one with premium package and some other stuff (107k) but that's just an insane amount of $$$. We settled on just a few features at $83.7k which is much cheaper than the others. Of course this was supposed to be a car she gets in like 5 years. But with the accident she really really wants to fix the 330Ci even if we have to salvage it. I did tell her if we get a decent amount I can put a hefty down payment and we can just get the porsche now lol. 

Here's her current car after the accident. I already talked to my BMW mechanic. It needs airbag, wheel, tire, corner turning light and strut tower mount. Of course insurance will probably find more things that "need" to fix and consider it totaled. 

2017 BMW M6 Gran Coupe. 

My wife has a 2002 BMW 330Ci but recently got into an accident. We're waiting to see if insurance will fix or total. Already looking up cars, she wants a Porsche Taycan but that's a lot of $$$$ lol 

Any 18.4" AW benches can go here. M18xR1/R2/18 

Here's my M18xR2 Firestrike: https://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/26323934/fs/25466379/fs/16862474/fs/19775399/fs/4002945

18 Firestrike: https://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/26958332/fs/26616944/fs/4087150

I have a few HP iPAQs I still play with. It's funny because they can access my samba server at home. 

I currently have 

HP iPAQ HX4700

2 x HP iPAQ RX3715 (used for IR remote)

HP iPAQ RX3115 (used for IR Remote)

HP iPAQ 211

HP iPAQ 111

Also have a HTC HD2 

They all have a lot of storage thanks to CF and SD cards. Trying to find ways to still use them today. 

I'm not very good with tests...did I pass?

You forgot the most important part. What are the specs? 😁

Since Alienware has announced their X series and their newer M series perhaps it's time to split this section even further by changing:

2015+ Alienware 13/15/17/51m 

into:

2015-2020 13/15/17/51m 

2021+ X14/15/17/M15/17 R5+ 

Just a thought. Or some sort of new way to organize them otherwise there will be a lot of models covered in the one section.

Hey everyone, for those who don't know I've been working on getting a Quadro RTX 3000 MXM GPU for my M18xR2. RTX 3000 is basically a Quadro variant of the RTX 2060 (TU106).

The GPU I found happens to be about MXM 3.0b in layout made by ADLINK. This GPU is also available from Aetina and PNY in the exact same form factor. I chose this because it requires no mods besides INF and it provides the latest RTX features on an old platform.


I made a video of MXM in general here including the raptor NVMe card:




The laptop has 32GB 2133Mhz RAM, Wi-Fi6E + BT 5.2 as well. It is basically up to spec.



No heatsink mod needed:

Here's some benchmarks and pictures:





Benches: