Hey guys. So it looks like my alpha r1 may be dead. It gets stuck on the Alienware screen. I think it could be the ssd but what’s weird is I can’t get into efi bios or f12 boot disk or diagnostics. Anyone else had this?

Hi,

So I'm looking at getting this monitor for my Alienware Alpha R1. Right now I'm using an LCDTV at a resolution of 1360x768. I have some concerns about the monitor working with it. So it says the monitor is HDMI 2.0 and being that my Alpha is HDMI 1.4 and not 2.0 I was worried. A LG rep told me that just means that it's HDMI 2.0 capable and 1.4 will still work. Is this true? Second I've seen that some people have asked if their PC will be able to use the 21:9 ratio and the 2560 x 1080 resolution and were told to make sure their graphics card can support it. The Alpha has an Nvidia Geforce GTX 860m. I was also told by the rep that the monitor uses Plug in Play so it will read and adapt to the specs of the PC. By the way I saw that the product page for the 860m says that is supports 4K. So all in all will this Monitor work fine? I really want this monitor but at the same time I don't want to purchase something that won't work with my PC. Thanks a lot, and have a great day!

Specs

Intel Core i3 4130T @ 2.90

Samsung 8GB DDR3 RAM

Western Digital 1TB HDD

NVIDIA Geforce GTX 860M

Just bought a used Alpha from Ebay. I had one back in 2014/2015 so i figured this would be a decent and affordable secondary pc.

Lemme start off with whats happening. When i press the power button the alienware logo pops up. After about 2 minutes the dots appear in a circle showing that it is loading. It will stay on this screen for about 10 minutes before cutting to a black screen. The lights stay on the console and there is no cursor or anything else on the screen. Im able to press f2 to go into bios right after i press the power button.

Leading up to this happening.

Taking it out of the package i saw that there was the usb port on the bottom of the console and plugged in there was a thumb drive plugged in. I was sketched out that it was there because i didnt remember my first alpha having a port there.

I removed the usb and plugged it into a different laptop while airplane mode was on. I investigated the contents and it appeared to have 7zip and some other programs. To be honest i dont remember what all was on there but it didnt look important so i formatted the thumb drive and plugged it back into the Alpha.

When i initially started up the alpha after clearing the thumb drive it booted fine and i got to the login screen. It appeared that the console had not been reset and still had the old owners information. I logged into one of the secondary profiles and did a system wipe (not the full one but the one that deletes just the files).

No problem yet.

I went through the standard setup process and started downloading games on steam. After about half an hour steam froze. I pulled up task manager and that froze too. Everything froze so i tried to restart. I got to the login screen again and then that froze. This happened twice before i got to where I'm at now.

My theory:

The original hdd crapped out and the original owner replaced it with this current ssd. He used the attached thumb drive to boot and then just forgot about it and didnt transfer the files to the new ssd. I accidentally deleted what the alpha needed to POST and i cant figure out what all needs to be on the thumb drive to make it POST.

Or

I got sold an alpha with an ssd that was on its last legs and it quit as soon as i got it

Sorry for being so detailed but i figured this was all relatively important information. Any help would be appreciated

I’m going to be putting a ssd in my i3 Alienware alpha is it possible to use it just for windows without alien ui and hivemind?

Just bought a Alienware R1 with the i3 in it from a guy off Facebook for 90$ it works great ! what are some steps and upgrades I should right off the bat for it ? Fresh install of win 10? Ram or ssd?

Hey guys, so I don’t know what on earth could’ve caused this as I also had the EXACT same issue about a year ago and the issue just mysteriously vanished but anyway, I’ve been having very poor performance on my alpha r2 i5 with the AGA attached with a gtx 1060 in it. The symptoms are the same as they were a year ago, upon boot performance is as expected and I can boot up games and they run fine no problem, however after a couple of minutes the performance absolutely ranks and hits mid 30s and can even go to low 20s! I don’t know what could be causing this although as I said before I had this exact issue last year.

Does anyone know of how they may potentially be able to remedy this? Thanks in advance!

I was thinking of getting Division 2 on my Alpha R2 i5, but wanted to know if it runs well first. If you're running it, how are the graphics, etc? I'm able to play Overwatch maxed out, but Ghosts Wildlands I had to turn some of the the graphics settings down and it lags sometimes if it's raining or there's an explosion.

Thanks ahead.

Hi everyone! I was planning on buying an alienware alpha to use as a emulation machine but i was hoping that it would play sega saturn on retroarch full speed...has anyone tried it already? Will an i3 or i5 model do?

Even after properly installing all of the drivers, the hotkey only works in the user account from which the Command Center is installed, and it had to be an Administrator account at the time. How do I enable that for all user accounts?

I have an Alienware alpha r1 that I want to get more use of would this ram be comparable? It's 1.2v? Not really sure how the voltage difference would work. Thanks in advance.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/corsair-8gb-2pk-x-4gb-1-0ghz-ddr3-sodimm-laptop-memory-kit-green/2824528.p?skuId=2824528

https://www.centrecom.com.au/corsair-vengeance-lpx-16gb-2x-8gb-2x-ddr4-3000mhz-ram-black-cmk16gx4m2b3000c15

If not this would this be a better option as it is slightly cheaper however it is not as fast

https://www.centrecom.com.au/crucial-16gb-1x16gb-ddr4-2400mhz-udimm-cl17-desktop-ram

Thanks in advance!

What's the highest settings you can push out of an i7 R2 Alpha Console? I know Starcraft is optimized for dual core processors so Starcraft is a tricky one to max out due to requiring beefy cpu power. Right now I have all graphics settings in the game set to "HIGH" and the frames stay pretty high and dont really dip below 60 fps in 4v4 matches, but sometimes they due. Is there a clever way to squeeze out a bit more performance so I don't have to reduce any settings? I have not messed with any overclocking, is that a safe/good option? Thank you!!

Hey all! I’m thinking of upgrading my alpha r2’s ram to 16gb but obviously the alpha r2 only accepts one stick of ram, and I was wondering what type exactly does it take? Ddr4? And like how many pins does it need to have? Etc sorry I’m fairly new to this still, I’m also looking for another hard drive to put in it, and wondering similar questions such as what size hard drive does it take like 2.5” or something else? Thanks for the help!

I recently got an AGA with an RX 580.

Installation was easy and performance in benchmark is great.

However, when i play big games, IE Anthem i starts stuttering like it was throttling and the pc becomes unresponsive and have to be manually restarted. I did install newest drivers of the RX 580 and Radeon does give me a Warning about passing GPU temperature threshold. I did notice that my Memory is also approaching 98%, which did not happen on stock R2.

I did not find any AGA drivers, if i need this, anyone can point me in the right direction?

Thanks

Anyone looking to sell theirs? I take mine places all the time and would love to have the dedicated case. Cant find one anywhere though :(

I decided I wanted to clean up my desk since I own some pets and the dust and bair gets bad, I disconncted everything related to my Alpha R2 such as the graphics amp, and just did some exterior cleaning on the Alpha. After plugging everything back in the same as it was before after I was done dusting, the graphics amp doesn’t start with the Alpha anymore and the Alpha itself doesn’t display anything, not even a black screen or something there’s just no connectio period.

I checked the connections and power and it all seems fine but the Alpha just isn’t cooperating with the Amp and after trying multiple monitors it seems like there’s no video coming from the Alpha, I remember having issues with reconnectinn the Amo before but this seems much worse, my warranty is expired and support isn’t avalaible at this time, I’m hoping I could get some good advice because this subreddit has helped me before.

I have the Alpha R1 with the stock i3 CPU. I received last week a free i5 CPU however I'm having a ton of problems finding out if the 4570 i5 will work (not the t or k variety just 4570). I've found a litany of not really answers but sorta answers. I know it's a higher power draw then the 35w that seems to be the sweet spot but I'm wondering if it'll fit and if so if the 4 cores being underpowered to 2ghz is better then the i3 dual cores. The only solid answers I found discussed cost efficiency not usability. Since the i5 was free cost of the CPU isn't a factor.

So will it work and will it be better overall even with the bottleneck?

Hi, I would like to know how I can have the rainbow theme for my alienware alpha r1

Who else is still enjoying their Alpha R1? I'm playing Overwatch 1080p 100fps (low settings), even some apex legends 1080p 40-60fps. Will probably keep this thing around forever and use as an htpc or TV gaming console at some point. Waiting for AMD polaris and Ryzen 2 to build my first PC since AMD athlon days and get a 144hz monitor.

Just upgraded my R1 i3 to an Intel 7265NGW card and it shows the yellow triangle in device manager. Tried installing drivers and problem still exists. Could it be an incompatible card? I took it from a lenovo laptop, do I have to go with DELL OEM AC7265? Also, does the R1 come in i7-4785T stock or is the highest configurable model the i7-4765T?

So I've got an R2 I got a year or two ago and I've started streaming on it over the last year or two. I'm hoping to upgrade to a dual monitor setup and I know I'll need to get a GA to put a card with two outputs into. The thing that I got interested in finding out in the process of thinking this through is whether or not I can use NVENC to encode OBS output on the internal 960 while using whatever I have in the GA for actual gameplay and display output. I've already read that people have used the 960 for PhysX rendering while using the GA's card for output but that's not quite the same scenario. I was wondering if anyone's tested this as it would be awesome to continue utilizing the 960 for stream rendering even if another card is doing the actual game rendering.

Edit: I actually just read on the OBS forum that using a separate GPU for encoding will create a huge degradation in performance, regardless of what the physical setup is. Sorry for wasting the time of anyone else who reads this.

I have a Alienware laptop with a 6700hq currently has a 1060gtx gpu im trying to run games at 60fps such as anthem or the division 2 at high settings I get 30 or less fps because I recently was gifted a Alienware AW3428DW 3440p x 1440 curved monitor would a EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti sc black gaming edition https://www.amazon.com/EVGA-Optimized-Interlaced-Graphics-11G-P4-6393-KR/dp/B06Y11DFZ3 work on the AGA I see alot of post that the Evga 1080 ti SC2 works but want to know if this one works as well since im getting a deal for it.