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    Alienware 17 not booting sometimes

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by wewooo, Jul 26, 2015.

  1. wewooo

    wewooo Notebook Guru

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    I have a 2013 Alienware 17 and most of the time when I turn it on the screen stay black with the keyboard lit and starts to beep one slowly and continuously. It sometimes get past the post but it's rare,this all started to happened one day I turned it on. Any solutions from you guys?
     
    wewooo, Jul 26, 2015
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  2. mariussx

    mariussx Notebook Evangelist

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    Test the HDD first (F12). 1 beep means a BIOS corruption/mainboard failure - try re-flashing the BIOS.
     
    mariussx, Jul 27, 2015
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