Tell me about the pits I filled in - Dell Alienware Alien AW15R2 experience

The first time it was issued, it was a little nervous.

About a month ago, an alien 15R2 was scouring the United States sea and began my pit filling trip.

This article has a lot of text in the sun, and there are few maps. It mainly helps you purchase the AW15R friends for problem solving purpose. If you want to see the value of the color, please move to the following high-end sun sticker:

First of all, I would like to say that Aunt Zhang’s sunscreen on her alien computer has been overwhelming. This is really a good computer. The more you use it, the more you use it, the more your face is, the more you feel about the keyboard, the keyboard feels awkward. You can now compare the keyboard Thinkpad. However, this generation of aliens has a lot of problems and needs patience. It also needs certain computer knowledge. It can be solved one by one, and after a while, it can be turned into a versatile computer.

Speaking a little nonsense, now officially began to single.

First of all, the purchase process, this computer is a 15-inch alien 15R2, i5 version, but it is not a specific version of the following configuration:

CPU: i5-6300HQ

Memory: 16G-ddr4

Hard Disk: Western Digital 1T-7200rpm Blue Disk

SSD: m.2 PCI-E 256G (Samsung PM-951)

Graphics card: GTX965M 2G-ddr5 memory

Display: Samsung 1080p-ips

I am not a hardware expert, but I am not a computer user. The above configuration is the factory configuration, you can see, measurements (CPU, memory, graphics) are very balanced, the whole no obvious short board, ready to use out of the box is not toss, to meet the needs of most people's computers.

Then say the price, the computer I bought in Adorama's ebay flagship store, Adorama this site is still more reliable, is also very friendly to the sea Amoy, when the new computer specials to 1049 knife, with the embarked ebay 100-30 discount code The machine did 1019 knife.


With the special transfer channel of friends (only this one), it's less than RMB 7,600. I don’t do formal statistics, but I’m guessing that the newly-arranged aliens with the same configuration, Aunt Zhang can rarely buy at this price. Arrived.

It was natural to be happy to be able to get an alien notebook at such a favorable price. After more than half a month of waiting, the machine finally arrived. The following is a few out of the box, when casually shot, due to Zhang Aunt on the sun on the 15R2 a lot of posts, everyone's camera equipment, camera technology are better than me, I will not make a fuss. The entire mobile phone shooting, no treatment.


but! Here starts a big but! Filling pit began!

First of all, Haitao Computer has certain risks, which I know very clearly. So after the computer orders, we have been searching the computer for any pits on the Internet. Here is a list of questions that I had before I received the computer:

1. A lot of people responded to this generation of extraterrestrials because it was not a blue sky foundry, and the heat dissipation was shrinking, playing games computer fever is serious

2. Some people Tucao this computer's Samsung display "Huang Huang", 4K version still smear

3. It is generally reflected that the computer is very heavy and does not want to bring out the door after a while

4. Some people report that aliens in some areas may not be transferred

5. A small number of foreign aliens users reflect this generation of machines for the sake of thinness, shape is not cool before

For question 1, my own opinion is that I do not play games (playing applet, playing with GPU acceleration, I have to buy a N-card machine), I5 is also a low-calorie, how do I say it? This dual-turbo cooling belt i5+965m should be no pressure.

For question 2, this generation of aliens' screens were OEMed by Samsung and LG. LG did not have a yellow screen. Even if the character did not buy Samsung's screen, it was said that it could be solved by post-software color correction.

For question 3, my height is 180+cm and my weight is 90+kg. This weight should not be too big for me.

For Question 4, I am in the royal capital, Dell's sales have always been very good, so I am not very worried.

For question 5, personal preference, I think it is okay.

With such "research results," I am confident that I will wait for the machine. I do not sell here, after receiving the machine, according to the online tutorial to download the installation of the Chinese language packs, to Dell's official website to update the bios and all drivers, updated system patches. The pits encountered are as follows:

1. Make sure Samsung's yellow screen is no doubt.

2 boot into the system actually can not find 1T mechanical hard disk, even the disk management can not find it!

3. The first boot is very fast, less than 5 seconds into the desktop, but after updating a few drivers to restart the computer circle to turn a minute!

4. The computer is normally used for about half an hour (do not play games, just install the software or browse the website normally) The keyboard obviously feels that there is temperature, and the bottom of the computer is hot!

5. After the software is installed, the CPU usage remains around 30%. This is even if nothing is operating.

I do not know what kind of feelings you would have if you bought a new computer. Anyway, I was looking for after sales. At that time, there was no registered transfer insurance. Whether the warranty could be maintained was unknown. Therefore, the transfer insurance was registered first.

Here is to say that not all Haitao aliens need to register for insurance. If it is purchased on Dell’s US official website, whether it is brand new or official, it is necessary to register the insurance, registration is also very simple, as long as it can correctly fill in the United States consignee name and delivery address, generally can be successfully transferred . Another case is like me. I bought Dell's computer with a third-party mall in the United States. This way, Dell has no record of your purchase. Register your warranty directly with your own name and address and phone number.

After the transfer registration was completed, my heart was a little practical and I started to explore and solve problems. First of all, based on previous experience, if the mechanical hard disk is not found, it is probably not plugged in or the hard disk has been broken. The hard disk of the new machine is unlikely to be bad, so I decided to reinstall the hard disk.

15R2 It is still very convenient to open the back cover. Just unscrew the two screws on the back and the backplane will automatically tilt. Pull it out with a little force and take it off.

In accordance with the value of the friend's operation tips, first unplug the battery cable, and then remove the hard disk line, check no problem and re-plug. Start the computer to check it, really good! Mechanical hard drive is back! Nor do you need to reformat and you can use it directly. Finally a little progress!

The following solves the problem of computer hot. According to my observation, even if the back of the computer is hot, the fans of the CPU and the graphics card do not turn. At first, I was a bit worried that the fan was in poor contact. Later, I set the fan to "performance mode" inside the bios. The two fans really started to turn around. Computer temperature from 65 + directly to 30 degrees. But the temperature is still down the fan, and the sound is comparable to throwing dry barrels.

I judged that there was a problem with the fan speed adjustment in the bios, but I did not find any options for speed adjustment in the bios.

So on the Internet to search for keywords "15R2 + fan speed" really found a solution: HWiNFO, this is a foreign free software, you can achieve the operating system level to adjust the hardware parameters, and monitor the hardware status. We learned from the forum that this software is constantly updated to support more and more new bios. The posts I found were in early 2015. I also said that I did not support the new 15R2. Directly to the official website to find the latest version has been perfectly supported.

There are only two files in this software. Just put it in a folder and use the shortcut key set by the alien to start up. You can also set the fan speed automatically according to different situations. Here I set the fan speed of several gears according to the real-time temperature of the CPU and GPU. The measured sound of the fan at 2500 rpm basically failed to cool the normal office.

After solving this pit, I was relieved. Later I went to Taobao to check buyers’ comments on this machine. A lot of people responded to the fever problem in the evaluation but they did not solve it. I hope some of them can see my post, it's actually very simple.

The following set about solving the problem of high CPU usage. I think the situation is not serious. It is definitely a win10 bug. I have confidence in the intel six-generation standard i5. Continue Baidu search "win10+CPU occupying too much" is really a search a lot. Directly according to Baidu experience introduced methods, a total of five changes to the place, with the value of win10 friends can try it yourself, I adjusted the "disabled system message push" after that, the CPU occupancy rate immediately fell below 3%, indicating I was caused by this problem.


After solving these pits, we installed the Windows Anniversary Update and restarted the computer several times in the middle. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the computer restarted slowly and the problem of turning around the small circle was gone! Later analysis I think that the slow restart is due to the overheating of the computer, because the fan cools down and the problem of slow restart is solved.

In the following, we started to solve the problem of the embarrassing yellow screen, because I was taking photos on my mobile phone and could not reflect the difference. Value-friends can search for "extraterrestrial + pornographic screens" on the Internet and have detailed picture comparisons.

I am here to directly address the solution, in two steps, first with the system's own color calibration (right-hand desktop display settings - advanced display settings - color calibration), according to the inside step adjustment finished, but not yellow, but the screen color is not Naturally, the colors are bleak. Down on the use of Intel's program transfer, but also the desktop right, there is a Intel's graphics attributes, enter the election after the show, and then select the color settings. Then according to your preferences, I found that lowering the gamma and slightly increasing the contrast are very effective. My parameters are: All colors: Brightness 0, Contrast 52, Gamma 0.8; because the color difference has been adjusted before, there is no need for every color to be different here. However, everyone can try it out for themselves and have better trouble sharing.

Smoothly resolved after adjustment.


After this basic pit was solved, the day was busy until midnight. Later, after a period of use, some experiences of using aliens were also summarized.

First of all, the aliens that big black wallpaper I like too much, is that the beginning of this post, I also use this picture as a desktop wallpaper, but a variety of desktop shortcuts, you will soon not see the wallpaper. My solution is to create a shortcut folder on the c drive, and then use one of the alien's own shortcut keys to call out. This not only keeps the desktop fresh, but also has the added benefit of suddenly running another program while editing a document or playing a game in full screen. All of the shortcuts are called up without having to switch to the desktop.


In addition, this new computer was the first time I used win10. I was a little uncomfortable at the beginning. Now I think it is still very easy to use. Especially after the anniversary update, I feel very mature. More like the use of tablet desktop combo this experience, in addition Haitao computer has a property bonus, that is, bring news, sports and other applications are directly linked to the United States bing data source, the news quality is higher than the domestic, Can also exercise English, very good.


Of course, the coolest aliens are all kinds of lights, and I did not expect even the hard disk, wifi, and so on the lights can be RGB palette, workmanship can be seen in detail.

Finally, we must talk about the Haitao computer's power supply problem, of course, this computer is global voltage support, I see some of the singles on the Taobao afraid to burn the motherboard, spend hundreds to buy a voltage converter, which really is not necessary, I Directly using the adapter I bought from the Hong Kong ipad, I estimated the cost of a few bucks. There is no problem at all.

Finally concluded: This is really a good computer, but need some patience to run in, now the new aliens have been listed, but the new shape I really can not accept, if the value of the same friends as I think the computer configuration is enough, The price of AW15r2 is really good. It is a good time to start.


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