Comment 96 for bug 984265

Jeff Lane, as per http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/19/Product/alienware-m15x an update is available for your BIOS (A09). If you update to this following https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BiosUpdate , does it change anything? If it doesn't, could you please both specify what happened, and provide the output of the following terminal command:
sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date

Thank you for your understanding.