The kind of trouble that most commonly found on Alienware M15x speaker is sound crackling. The problem is suspected to be caused by a poor power distribution, or the power is interrupting the audio output. When power is supplied through the mains, it is constantly feeding a current through, whereas on battery, the exact amount of power at any one time is given. This constant supply of power is believed to affect the audio.
However, there is no time for keeping on being frustrated should you be on this kind of trouble. There must be a certain way to overcome it. Say you have a M15X with this problem of crackling, you can end the problem by simply turning on the AlienwareFX should you run on AC power, but do not set it to dim. And if you run on battery, you can choose to turn the AlienwareFX either on or off. This simple step was proven in some cases to have worked with or without WASAPI.

Sony has long been a player in the eBook game but with innovations from Amazon and the like, their hardware offerings have generally been overlooked. If recent rumors are to be believed, however, Sony may be looking to make a new name for themselves in the eBook world.
Below are leaked specs for the above two devices courtesy of BGR:
PRS-600 (pictured above, left):
Price: $299
Screen Size: Vizplex 6 inches
Resolution: 800 x 600 pixels
Gray Scale: 8-levels gray scale
Battery Type: Rechargeable Lithium-Ion (battery: DC 3.7 V)
AC Power: DC 5.2 V
Battery Life (Approx): 7,500 (BBeB Book)
6.9″ L x 4.8″ W x 4″ D, Weight: 10.1 oz.
Ships with a USB cable
Media Formats Supported: Unsecured Text: EPUB File (Non DRM/ Adobe DRM protected), BBeB Book (Non DRM/ PRS DRM protected), PDF file (Non DRM/ Adobe DRM protected) DRM Text: Text file, RTF file, Word file (unsecured), Unsecured Audio: MP3 (Non encrypted), AAC (Non encrypted) Image: JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP
PRS-300 (pictured above, right):
Price: $199
Screen Size: Vizplex 5 inches
Resolution: 800 x 600 pixels
Gray Scale: 8-levels gray scale
Battery Type: Rechargeable Lithium-Ion (battery: DC 3.7 V)
AC Power: DC 5.2 V
Battery Life (Approx): 7,500 (BBeB Book)
6.2″ L x. 4.2″ W x 2″ D, Weight: 7.76 oz.
Ships with a USB Cable, Sleeve, Quick Start Flyers
Media Formats Supported: Unsecured Text: EPUB File (Non DRM/ Adobe DRM protected), BBeB Book (Non DRM/ PRS DRM protected), PDF file (Non DRM/ Adobe DRM protected) DRM Text: Text file, RTF file, Word file (unsecured)
So what do you think? If these rumors are true will Amazon’s Kindle have a capable competitor?

Power saving mode on Asus 1000HE Eee PC forces sleep state is another issue found from the 1000HE Eee PC user. Each time 1000HE switching to power saving mode then the laptop goes to sleep in around 30 second later. It happened if the AC power is still connected, to make it running well then this user change it to power saving mode. He has changed all the power management settings to always on.

Since the problem of 1000HE with power saving mode above sounds like a malfunctioning hardware switch that tells the OS to go into standby, which means no software solution will take care of the problem. You can try to resolve by use the shortcut keys Fn + Zz which by default puts 1000HE into standby.

Other method you can try to do to fix the power saving mode forces sleep state on Asus Eee PC 1000HE:

- Go to Advanced Tab under power option properties.
- Set “when lid closes” option to enter standby

That’s mean for any reason when in the power saving state the 1000HE gets the signal that the user closed the lid, the HE Eee PC will go into standby mode.

Commonly problems found after BIOS update is some devices can’t work properly because of they can’t recognize well. It also comes to the one user who’s just update the latest BIOS of his MSI Wind u100 laptop. Right after doing BIOS update, Wind u100 he has almost unusable. Some of laptop’s devices such as wireless, USB ports, etc. didn’t work at all.

As he said the BIOS under system information are Bios Version: EN011IMS Ver. 10B and EC Version: NO11EMS1 Ver.125, those BIOS is not the latest version but works fine. However, sounds like the problem of some MSI Wind u100 laptop’s devices aren’t work isn’t caused of the update BIOS.

To resolve this problem, through your MSI Wind u100 try to boot to Windows XP and make sure that you have administrative rights.
Download the attached file and extract it somewhere. The next step you can do is close all applications such as AV’s/Chat
programs or whatever software that you may have running in background.

Connecting AC Main Power to your MSI Wind u100 notebook, then click on Proceed.bat and let it run completely to finish. Once it was done,shutdown the laptop (keyboard may temporary no longer functional [normal & expected], so you can use the mouse or touchpad to do that. If it was you need to do EC Reset and then turn the Wind u100 on and go to BIOS and choose “Load BIOS Default”. Finish these steps by “SAVE AND EXIT”. Now you should see all your MSI Wind u100 devices are working fine.

My friend has audio problem with his Alienware M15x laptop. When he tried to turn volume up, the volume will be going to down slowly. If you have same problem, you may have to follow below step instruction to solve the problem:
a. You have to uninstall Alienware Command Center
b. Uninstall OSD Utility
c. You have to reinstall Alienware Command Center and OSD Utility to your alienware notebook. You can get file from here and here
d. If this problem still appear, you may have to schedule check your C drive (Automatically fix file system error and recover bad sector on your harddrive)
e. If the problem still occurs, you may have to shut down your computer, unplug your notebook, take out battery / AC power for 10 or 15 seconds, after 15 seconds, plug your battery and plug AC power and turn on your notebook.
I hope this short article will help you.