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    Nonstop beeping, slow boot, but runs fine

    Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by golden80, Dec 7, 2013.

  1. golden80

    golden80 Newbie

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    So I dropped a small glass of wine into my M14x a couple of days ago. Pulled the AC wire, powered it off, and soaked up as much wine as I could. I disassembled the laptop and cleaned the keyboard with distilled water on a rag. It was the only place I could see the wine. Let it dry for 2 days and put it back together. On power up, it will continuously beep, no sequence of 5 or 7, etc. just straight beeps. The laptop still loads to Windows and even after 3 hours of 3dmark, had no other problems. Except I had to disable the Realtek in the bios to stop the beeping. And have no sound because of it. Is there any way to just disable the diagnostic beeps?
     
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    Alienware-L_Porras Company Representative

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    Did you try looking for the option in the BIOS? You could also use an external USB audio card.
     
    Alienware-L_Porras, Dec 11, 2013
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    Only BIOS option for the sound card I could find was to completely disable the entire card. I didn't know there were external USB cards. Think I'll pick one up.
     
    golden80, Dec 11, 2013
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