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    yellow alienhead?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by NerdZeal, Dec 1, 2011.

  1. NerdZeal

    NerdZeal Newbie

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    I'm not sure what this means but I've just noticed that my alien head light (the one above the keyboard) is glowing yellow, it keeps going from blue to yellow. Is this something I should be worried about or is it just a dead light or something like that?
     
  2. Riftwire

    Riftwire Notebook Consultant

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    Sounds like its charging. When the battery is full it should stay a solid color. You can adjust this in AlienFX.
     
  3. NerdZeal

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    I never unplug my laptop so I don't know why it would be charging and the battery says fully charged 100%.
     
  4. Riftwire

    Riftwire Notebook Consultant

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    Hrm that's odd and if you unplug your laptop does it still do this or does it go solid?
     
  5. nall

    nall Notebook Enthusiast

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    Take out the battery and see what happens.
     
  6. NerdZeal

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    Seem to have fixed itself, the head stays at a solid blue. I unplugged it and put it back in, guess I must of had a power glitch or something. weird.
     
  7. VoiceInTheWilderness

    VoiceInTheWilderness Notebook Consultant

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    Mine occasionally does this too, but it usually takes weeks for it to occur after a reset. I just shut it down and remove the battery, then put it back in, and it always seems to reset itself. Your experiences will probably be similar.
     
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    Brabostaan Notebook Deity

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    The battery stops charging when it reaches a certain level, it was probably just charging.
     
  9. maxheap

    maxheap caparison horus :)

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    it does exactly same thing when i am unplugged
     
  10. captain008

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    My system does the same thing, from what I was told this is something from the A10 Bios (R2 peeps) to fix the charging issue. I to have to pull the battery and do a power drain to get it to fix itself. I even hear some people going further and pulling the button battery on the MOBO to really reset it. If your worried about the battery use hwinfo32/64 and check the voltage/watts of the batt.
     
  11. Syredisa057

    Syredisa057 Notebook Consultant

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    while your laptop recharged, it will be like that depends on what color you've choose.. but once your battery fully charged, it goes back to solid, Or.. you can put your alienhead color into the same color, so there will be no changes between recharged and fully charged.. :)