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getting ubuntu up on dell alienware x51

A couple of months back i bought a new dell alienware X51 desktop, assuming that my ubuntu 10.04 would boot on it out of box. I was wrong.
It seems that the BIOS in X51 alienware desktop(A01) does not support old legacy bootloader's that are used to boot ubuntu on the older PC's.

Therefore to fix this problem first we need to download and install the newly updated BIOS(A02) from the following link on windows.

http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/19/DriverDetails/DriverFileFormats?DriverId=JMX4R&FileId=2882590626

Once done,
Plugin your Ubuntu external harddrive or USB. Reboot your PC and now you should be able to see the updated A02 BIOS. while booting press F2 to enter into the BIOS settings, change the bootloader to Legacy bootloader, Save and Exit he Bootloader configuration.

For new ubuntu installation please refer the following link

http://quantumbeach.wikidot.com/bug:1

Ofcourse in my case i had to boot Old ubuntu 10.04 installation.
For that once we save and exit BIOS settings, Our very old Grub menu should appear on the screen., go ahead and select the ubuntu kernel version you want to boot. you should be able to successfully boot the your old Ubuntu installation, But....remember that your dell alienware X51 has nvidia 555 GTX graphics card and for this we have to install the nvidia kernel modules. to do that please follow the instructions given in the link mentioned below

http://www.nvidia.in/object/linux-display-ia32-275.09.07-driver.html

On your next reboot your monitor and other graphics options should work fine but you may still have no sound working on your PC.
For that follow the steps mentions in the following link

http://monespaceperso.org/blog-en/2010/05/02/upgrade-alsa-1-0-23-on-ubuntu-lucid-lynx-10-04/

reboot and enjoy your UBUNTU as it was on your older PC or Laptop.



 


 




 

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