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Hey guys, this is my first post on this forum site.
I have an mALX which died some time ago. I loved this laptop. It was just so cool- even though it's pretty dated by today's standards.
This is gonna be kinda long and detailed but I'd rather not waste your time and mine suggesting things I've already tried.
A couple years ago the thing died on me randomly. It was working one night and then the next day boom headshot.
It started giving a 1-3-3-1 post code- a code I've scoured the depths of Google (and Bing) searching for an answer. I tried a mobo swap, tried dancing the GPU's to different slots and 1 card at at time, tried a different CPU, tried ram 1 stick at a time in both slots. Tried pulling CMOS chip and pulled bios battery.
Nothing I did ever changed that blasted code! In a sign of humiliated defeat I sold the thing on ebay for parts.
Specs on it were rather customized which may have lead to its demise. I was running a desktop Amd 64 (not the turion) that I think was 2.6ghz. I had 2x 500gb 7200rpm drives in Raid 0. I considered the desktop CPU was just too much and fried the mobo after 6mo of using it. I bought & tried a very slow (like 1.4-1.6ghz) turion in both the new & old mobo with no change so I don't think that the CPU was the problem after all.
The only part I did not buy new ones to replace were the GPU's as 2yrs ago they were about $250 a piece.
I was going through some stuff and uncovered the mobo I had. Don't remember if it's the old or new one. It got me feeling nostalgic and wanting to bring it back to life. This is the only laptop I haven't been able to fix. Heck, I couldn't even change the symptoms! And it vexes (and perplexes) me.
Although I only have ram, cpu and mobo (no GPU or case etc) If i could get it to stop beeping 1-3-3-1 I would buy all the parts and rebuild it. It'll still beep 1-3-3-1 with just the ram,cpu,mobo.
Any suggestions on the cause of the problem? The only thing I can think is that a part I ordered to try and fix it was bad (Motherboard or ram being most likely)
I thought about getting some single sided 256mb of ram just to see if that'd fix it.
Help bringing my old mALX back to life
Discussion in 'Alienware Area-51/Aurora and Legacy Systems' started by SteelVenom082, Jul 11, 2012.
