The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Need help exiting "no post"

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Branzy1987, Jul 29, 2014.

  1. Branzy1987

    Branzy1987 Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    7
    Messages:
    384
    Likes Received:
    50
    Trophy Points:
    41
    Hi. I entered bios and overclock the cpu to 34 34 34 34 multiplyer and exist...when the laptop restarted it didnt do nothing...it s in no post...only the charge light is working...i made a battery drain...and still nothing...can anybody help. Please
     
    Branzy1987, Jul 29, 2014
    #1
  2. nick81

    nick81 Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    136
    Messages:
    386
    Likes Received:
    101
    Trophy Points:
    56
    Did you try setting the BIOS to default settings? If you can't access it at all, the only way might be to reseat the CMOS battery... But don't do that until one or more experts here give you some advice...
     
    nick81, Jul 29, 2014
    #2
  3. juliant

    juliant Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    1,015
    Messages:
    1,409
    Likes Received:
    27
    Trophy Points:
    66
    Unfortunately that will be the only solution. But there is a way to play around with the cmos battery. Please do a search, someone has posted many times on how to do it; just removing the cmos battery will not reset your bios to default settings...
     
    juliant, Jul 29, 2014
    #3
  4. Branzy1987

    Branzy1987 Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    7
    Messages:
    384
    Likes Received:
    50
    Trophy Points:
    41
    It s so hard because I dont have the require equipent to disasambly all laptop . I have 4 rqm sodimm...so it's hard to reset it...other way?
     
    Branzy1987, Jul 29, 2014
    #4
  5. Papusan

    Papusan Jokebook's Sucks! Dont waste your $$$ on Filthy

    Reputations:
    42,727
    Messages:
    29,850
    Likes Received:
    59,668
    Trophy Points:
    931
    Skjermbilde (990).png This can maybe help.
     
    Papusan, Jul 29, 2014
    #5
  6. shabe

    shabe Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    30
    Messages:
    26
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    6
    Maybe this can help:

     
    shabe, Jul 30, 2014
    #6
  7. MickyD1234

    MickyD1234 Notebook Prophet

    Reputations:
    3,159
    Messages:
    6,473
    Likes Received:
    1,165
    Trophy Points:
    331
    Never tried that process shabe referred to. Hope it works.

    I always thought you do need to remove the coin cell battery and hold down the power button (of course PSU is unplugged!). Reassemble and it should start. It will probably complain about the date & time being wrong but you can continue.

    Without a screwdriver another option is a blind-flash (search NBR about it - not recommended). Way complicated and model specific. This forces the machine to read in a fresh bios image from a USB. This is also a risky process, if you use a wrong ROM file you can end up with a completely dead machine and a mobo replacement will be needed. It says 'blind' as no error checking or code validation is done, it just puts the code onto the the bios whatever it is from.

    Good luck
     
    MickyD1234, Jul 30, 2014
    #7