Help! M11X r2 doesn't boot up.

So i've received my M11X R2 today and decided to overclock it. Went into the bios advance settings and chose 166, to my surprise it shut down, now whenever i press the power button it doesn't even turn on to the point where i can get to the bios and turn the overclock back !!

Edit: To be more clear, the light just blinks a few times and it shut off again and keep continuing to do so.

 

This might be stupid, but did you let it keep going after pressing the power button? If not, just hit it once and let it do its thing.

When mine wouldn't boot after choosing an OC speed too high, it would start to boot, stop, seem to shut off, turn back on, and then it worked (when I pressed f2 to change the OC setting, it was disabled, i.e., it was disabled automatically after it wouldn't boot)--that's all with just pressing the power button once.

 

Yes, I allowed it to continue booting but it still in the same state. Before overclocking i've read somewhere that it'll automatically shut off when you set it too high, not in my case I guess :|.

Update: Now all the lights are on but the screen doesn't show anything.

 

Contrary to popular belief, dell was extremely helpful. They recommended that I unplug the battery & hold the power button for around a minute or two in order to drain any power left out of the computer. Afterward, I went into the bios and reset everything to default and now my computer is working fine.

However, this sort of leave a scar on me as now i'm afraid to try and overclock my machine. That aside, i'm very impressed by this little beast so far.

 

^Thanks for the followup. I know there's a cmos battery on the motherboard, and if it happens to me in the future, I know I would have taken it all apart to get that thing out, rather than the much simpler taslk of taking out the main battery.

 

@Azn - if your not afraid to go back into the bios (and I wouldn't blame you if you were), try disabling the stuff you don't use, like external ethernet and firewire, stuff like that. Then slowly start increasing your FSB and see how far you get before you shutdown or blue-screen. Everything utilizes voltage so if you can disable some items you may be able to get to 166.

Best wishes,

stevenx

 

Getting all the way to 166 doesn't really affect me much, however, when I recover my courage I might try again, thanks for the tips.

 

I'd suggest you do this another way... Start at the low end and gradually increase until the system starts to become unstable or weird things start happening, then back it down 2 clicks. Most systems will not be stable in the 160s from my personal experience.

 

Oh, btw when I called Dell with this problem they informed me that there's a chance that overclocking might cause hardware damage and this is NOT covered in warranty. Don't know if you guys know this but just want to throw it out there.

@erawneila, thanks for the suggestion but I think i'm just going to use the default settings, working great so far for me with no problem.

 

hi !
I have the same problem :
my m11x don't boot up, the keyboard light and the fan turns a lot !
I try to hold the power button +2mn and remove the battery, but nothing happen...

any idea ?
thanks

 

Are you overclocked? If so disable that. If that helps then lower your OC and test for stability.

 

Yes, but now the notebook does'nt boot, so I can't disable the overclock..

 

Time to call Dell.

 

Not covered by warranty? From what I know Any over clocking done through BIOS will be covered by warranty from dell. If a Dell rep says this they have no idea what their talking about. Although I could be wrong that's what I heard for the R1s, someone correct me if this isn't the same for the R2s.

 

Just ignore ignorant customer rep who has no clue what he/she's talking about.

Some reps think what they say will be dell policy.

OP should have asked why It's even there.