M17X R2 Stuck at Alienware Logo Boot Screen

My R2 started doing this today after I rebooted it, in order to check that the factory overclocking was enabled in the BIOS. I've been running the thing with 5% factory OC for about a year and a half now. Anyway, after I rebooted from the BIOS, I couldn't get past the Alienhead Bios splash screen. I can't access the boot menu or bios options either. I also tried inserting a disc in preparation for reinstalling windows, but I can't eject it (luckily it was just some random disc I had to see if the thing would still take CDs, and not my windows recovery disc). I even tried reseating the ram, doing the 30 second power button/battery trick, and blowing out any small amount of dust with canned air. Non of it worked. My money is on a dead CPU

PS - I just repasted my gpus and CPU a month ago, and got the best temps I'd ever had.

 

Try clearing the BIOS completely. Battery out, CMOS battery out, hold the power button down for 30 seconds. Put it all back together, hopefully that'll take. If that still doesn't, I'd try to reseat the CPU and try one stick of RAM at a time.

Best of luck.

 

Urgency bump

 

Did all of that. No dice. On top of that I now can't get the other disc I tested the drive with out of said drive. Grrrrrr....

 

After leaving the thing on at the boot screen for about 15 minutes, it went to the BIOS setup screen, and popped out the disc. I changed all the settings back to how I had them, and voila, it booted into windows... Pleased, yet confused.

 

glad you resolved that issue. Could have been a setting you tweaked by accident?

 

I haven't the slightest idea. I looked at my CPU-Z and notice that my clock speeds were a little low. I then went into the BIOS and found that the 5% factory overclock was disabled. I changed that, rebooted, and then the issue began.

 

That doesn't sound like you got the BIOS cleared if it still retained some settings.

Ah well, at least you got it running again!