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    Help with flashing leds after restarting

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by _XIII_, Nov 10, 2010.

  1. _XIII_

    _XIII_ Notebook Consultant

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    Hi , so I was normally using my computer when I decided to restart and now it stays in the bios splash screen with the LEDs blinking , I searched for the led error codes and it turns out to be " a problem was found with memory " do you guys recoomend anything like reseating the RAM modules or ahould I just call dell at once any help is appreciated thanks
     
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    DR650SE The Whiskey Barracuda

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    Which ones are flashing? Have you recently changed anything?
     
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    _XIII_ Notebook Consultant

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    the one in the middle flashes, the right and the left one are on (I'm in college right now I don't have it in front of me so can't tell the exact LED name) and no, I haven't changed anything nor openend it the funny thing is that I just restarted the computer
     
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    Strage thing it was working fine until I decided to restart ,anyway I tried to reseat the ram modules and it still shows the sane error code so time to call Dell probably they'll screw it up more and I'll end with an r2 :p thanks for the help identifying the problem guys
     
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