So this is the continuing nightmare that I've experienced since I decided (oh so foolishly) to buy through Dell/Alienware rather than just building the damn thing myself with quality parts. I'm now on my third system from Dell (now an Alienware Area-51 ALX) and its now finally out of warranty, so I can't get them to address the issue anymore. Regardless! I was wondering if anyone here would have any insight into the issue that seems to be plaguing my box now.
There are two major concerns that I have;
1) The machine seems to be having issues booting up to my bios, especially if it's been off for a while (like, overnight). It'll 'spin' up, so to speak, but won't make it to the bios loading screen for a while. So far, I've been relatively lucky in terms of it eventually getting there, but it certainly is indicative of a greater issue. I'm not getting any beep codes, so there's that, but... yeah.
2) Occasionally, and i believe this actually only happens when I let the machine hibernate or sleep, upon waking up, I'm informed by the system that the computer has recovered from a serious error (error code 7a) which seems to be connected to a faulty harddrive. I would normally accept this, and just replace the seemingly defective piece of hardware, but this computer has had issues with several different hard drives. one of the 2 Caviar blue WD harddrives arrived defective and another of my harddrives seemed to develop some issues after I installed it as a stopgap until i got the Caviar Black that I use now.
Any Ideas?
Running windows 7 64 bit, with a i7 975, dual gtx 285s, 6g of ram etc.
There are two major concerns that I have;
1) The machine seems to be having issues booting up to my bios, especially if it's been off for a while (like, overnight). It'll 'spin' up, so to speak, but won't make it to the bios loading screen for a while. So far, I've been relatively lucky in terms of it eventually getting there, but it certainly is indicative of a greater issue. I'm not getting any beep codes, so there's that, but... yeah.
2) Occasionally, and i believe this actually only happens when I let the machine hibernate or sleep, upon waking up, I'm informed by the system that the computer has recovered from a serious error (error code 7a) which seems to be connected to a faulty harddrive. I would normally accept this, and just replace the seemingly defective piece of hardware, but this computer has had issues with several different hard drives. one of the 2 Caviar blue WD harddrives arrived defective and another of my harddrives seemed to develop some issues after I installed it as a stopgap until i got the Caviar Black that I use now.
Any Ideas?
Running windows 7 64 bit, with a i7 975, dual gtx 285s, 6g of ram etc.