I installed Windows 8 with Uefi enabled I than went into the bios and enable Windows 8 fastboot restarted and now I get 8 beeps repeating.
This is a M17xR4.
Thanks for any help.
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Meaker@Sager Company Representative
What graphics card do you have? I don't think Nvidia have GOP drivers yet. You could try resetting the CMOS by disconnecting the CMOS (and main) battery.
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I have the 660M
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I removed the CMOS battery and it's still doing the same thing.
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I don't remember if the OS needs a specific page file for fast boot or if it creates a special page file for fast boot when the OS is installed. In any event, that is something you should check. In any event, 8 beeps points to an LCD failure. But we know the LCD is fine, plus that beep code could mean anything in the video display system is causing the problem.
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How can I check this?
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Meaker@Sager Company Representative
Try removing the battery for a little while (10 mins) and make sure every other power source is out too.
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Took it out again for 15min and still doing the same. Anymore ideas?
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Meaker@Sager Company Representative
Sounds like something may have failed then, an option like that should be cleared with a CMOS reset. Maybe try and emergency bios recovery?
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Thanks, can you point me to the emergency bios recovery.
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Meaker@Sager Company Representative
Something like this:
Bios reset or recovery possible? -
What are your BIOS settings btw? You should have legacy support diabled? UEFI + AHCI is the most stable combination, haven't tried UEFI + RAID yet.
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Thanks for the help, I have sent it back to Dell for them to look at it.
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Meaker@Sager Company Representative
Oh well, if they give you any idea of what happened let us know in case we run across this again.
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Did you by any chance install the OS in a mSATA? I've seen a lot of trouble with Windows 8 + mSATA's, it would be good to start discarding possibilities.
If possible send me a PM with your service tag, I'd like to follow up on your case and see what turns out to be the problem. -
Meaker@Sager Company Representative
I'd be surprised if those issues lead to bricking the machine.
Enabled Fastboot now wont start
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