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[saint-michael]

I happen to find this by accident when trying to fix my computer, but anyways In this tutorial I will show you how to change the LED colors on your Dell XPS system may it be either laptop or Desktop, you will be able to get rid of that red color and change it to 16 other colors. This is a simple process and you don't hae to worry about messing anything up, but what is also neat is that (at least on the laptop) you can have 4 different colors going on at once.

Step 1: If you have your computer running then go ahead and restart it.

Step 2: during the load up screen to your computer press the F12 key

Step 3: In that menu go to your BIOS and then press enter.

Step 4: next press you the down arrow to On Board Devices Their you will see a menu consisting of these options

SYSTEM FAN LEDS (On the latop they colors are on the side)
SYSTEM SPEAKER LEDS (On the latop they colors are in the front)
SYSTEM PANEL LEDS (On the laptop they are found on top part of the computer)
SYSTEM TOUCH PAD LED (On the latop the color is on mouspad)
SYSTEM LIGHT BRIGHTNESS (This determines how bright the LEDS will be )

Now in order to be able to go to each option you must press the down or up arrow and the press enter and then in the menu you would press the down or up arrow again to select the options and then press enter for the choice you want to have and people able to exit out of that menu to go to another one.

Step 5: Chose your Color

These are the colors the Dell XPS supports at least on the M1710 Laptop on each of the LED options except for the mouse pad. I will best describe these colors, although some of them don't fit the color that they originally went with, go figure. Also as your selecting the color you get to see it change as your tryinig out the colors to see which ones look good to use.

None (Lights turned off)

Ruby (Red)

Citrine (Orange)

Amber (Lime Green)

Peridot (Greenish White)

Emerald (Green)

Jade (Sea Green)

Topaz (Light Blue)

Tazanite (Blue)

Aquamarine (light blue)

Sapphire (Blue)

Iolite (light purple)

Amethyst (Purple)

Kunzite (Light Purple)

Rhodolite (Rose or maroonish color)

Coral (Pink)

Diamond (white)

Now with the System touch pad LED color only has On and Off for options don't know why they just do so you will deal with the Color Ruby on that one. System LED Brightness is basicaally that, this changes the level of how bright your colors get from 1-8 (8 being the Brightest)

Step 6: press esc key two times then save your settings and your done, See how it easy that was and now your Dell XPS has different colors instead of the default Ruby Color on the mouse pad. Thats it for this tutorial enjoy your computers colors and what. Now concerning the Dell XPS Desktop the bio set up maybe the same by the LED display maybe different, just to throw out that little caution.

Edited by saint-michael, 23 December 2007 - 06:59 AM.

[murtahg]

What is a Leds?

[Unregistered 011]

What is a Leds?

LED: A type of diode that emits light when current passes through it.

In other words, it's the lights on the computer, it's a tutorial how to change the color of the lights.

That's so cool, I was thinking of buying a new Dell, my current desktop is almost 10 years old. If I get a xps system, I'm definitely going to try this out.

[moonwitch]

While I applaud this post, I must say two things.
1. The overuse of carriage returns is rather annoying, there's absolutely no need for a whiteline under every single written line.
2. For the love of [insert prefered Deity here] use more punctuation, and capitals.

But other then that, nice information there, SM.

[Die_amond]

Hello!!


I seem to have a problem when changing the colors of the LEDs. I followed your step-by-step instruction, chose the colors, escaped and chose "save and exit".
When the computer continues the start up, the colors go back to Red.
So I thought I'd have to restart it to apply the changes.

When restarting it the colors I chose, show up but turn back to red as soon as I passed the Log-on screen, where I enter my password. (?)

Any ideas but I've done wrong?

Thanks for your help xx

P.S: Using a Dell XPS M1710 Laptop

[Jimmy89]

When restarting it the colors I chose, show up but turn back to red as soon as I passed the Log-on screen, where I enter my password. (?)

If I understand what you are saying correctly, once you have logged in, the LED colours change back to red. This probably means that a program running on the laptop (one of the Dell preloaded apps) is changing it automatically. See if there is a Dell app that could be loading on startup that could be causing this.

[Die_amond]

If I understand what you are saying correctly, once you have logged in, the LED colours change back to red. This probably means that a program running on the laptop (one of the Dell preloaded apps) is changing it automatically. See if there is a Dell app that could be loading on startup that could be causing this.

Thanks for ur suggestion!!
However I have no idea which application could switch the color back to red? How you figure this out? And where you find the Dell applications?


Thanks, for ur help x

[xboxrulz]

It's not really an application, per se, more of a driver. Maybe try to update your drivers?

For Windows XP: http://support.dell....p;fileid=209859

For Windows Vista:
http://support.dell....p;fileid=208535

xboxrulz

[Die_amond]

I updated the driver given in your link @xoxrulz, however it didn't prevent the computer from switching back to red while loading up the desktop items etc.

Apparently it doesn't like the colors to be switched !!!


EDIT: By the way, I just had to create a 2nd. test-account for smth else and noticed that the colors I'd chosen before got applied to this one!! But after switching back to my main account, it turned back to red ??!?

Edited by Die_amond, 02 March 2008 - 11:28 AM.

[Jimmy89]

there must be something happening on the first account that isn't happening on the second account (whether it be driver or app). The best way to see what is happening using the Task Manager. (usually Ctrl + Alt + Del) (Or even better, Process Explorer from http://technet.micro...s/bb896653.aspx)This way you can see what applications are running. You can check the version of your drivers from the Device Manager. But this should be the same on both accounts.