Alienware 18 Area-51

As someone who bought the ill fated 1st Gen Alienware Area 51 “upgradable” laptop, and is a current FW16 owner, I’m getting a Deja vu feeling right about now. I have to say though, my confidence in FW hasn’t been shattered yet. I’m really hoping the 26th announcement will be an official launch of th

I am on my second 18 Area-51 laptop too, ordered direct from Dell. The first laptop had thermal throttling issues and P-Core 23 was the worst with temperatures fluctuating wildly. The laptop also crashed randomly whilst gaming, contacted Dell who at first told me this was normal and there was nothin

So sorry you are experiencing so many problems! It's frustrating when your new rig doesn't run flawlessly and you don't get the performance you expected, and paid for! This doesn't help you but your experience confirms that I made the correct decision in returning my Area-51 (unopened) and going wit

I had the Alienware M18 R2 it was great while it ran. I had nothing but problems with it. Eventually Dell replaced it with a Alienware 18 Area 51. The extended warranty saved me.

Dell will try to repair the device at least 3 or 4 times before granting a replacement. I’ve also had some very bad luck with my laptop. I had my heatsink replaced 3 times and was still have issues on my alienware area 51-18. After the 3rd unsuccessful they finally granted a new laptop, which unfort

I have a Alienware 18 Area 51 and it happens to me too. It is a catastrophic chipset error. I load Sniper Elite Resistance and it freezes then I get the flashing code and I shutdown the pc and I restart the laptop. I then go into the same game and it loads perfectly. I contacted support and they sai

Basically I’ve had the same spec Area 51 but with 5090 since January within 2 weeks I had an engineer at my house changing every component apart from the screen because it constantly crashed. That took 4 days on the phone before they sent an engineer even though I bought elite care. I work in Senega

Don’t buy it. It seems to be in a bad condition. I have Alienware m18 r2 it’s a beast as a gaming laptop overall BUT I purchased it one year ago brand new from dell store and since January I experienced blue screens, watchdog errors, freezes, randomly crashes in gaming, and eventually yesterday afte

Dell is rubbish, I bought an Alienware area 51 on 2nd of Feb 2026, and on 4th Feb, while I was using alias, the windows crashed, I called the dealer, the dealer acted surprised and suggested that I reach out for the premium support, Support said that it must be the bios, updated the bios, couple hou

https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000422770/alienware-area-51-laptop-power-button-flashing-red-once-and-then-blue-four-times?lang=en same here :) probably the latest bios did that but the other fault code and freezing was solved… we will have to wait as it seems :-(