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    AW Area 51 Desktop Wont Boot

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by aliencommando, Dec 9, 2010.

  1. aliencommando

    aliencommando Notebook Guru

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    Hello everyone!

    been awhile since the last time i posted here.

    A friend of mine just bought himself an AW Area 51 Desktop ( second hand) and it was in perfect condition on the day of purchase. Gave it a run, and test pretty much everything before taking it back home and it was awesome.

    Once he got home, he assembled everything and powered up the rig. All was still ok until he got into Command Center and everything went off! The rig shut itself down with no reason. (Was thinking it went to sleep mode)

    Tried to wake him up, but he never wake up anymore since then....

    when he switched on the big guy, the fin flipped twice ( as usual during boot) but then that was it.

    The lights came on for a moment then went out again.

    Even the fans ran up and stop immediately thereafter...

    He tried to get support from Dell but unfortunately the tech refused to help because the warranty just got expired about few weeks ago....

    According to the last owner, the unit was performing well without any problem. after just 1 day in my friend's hand, this thing happened.

    And, yeah, the last owner has stated that he got the rig formatted and got everything reinstalled using the CDs that came along with the system. Could that be the cause of it?

    he even tried this one

    Area-51 FAQ - Alienware Forum - Alienware Club - Dell Community


    but that doesn't change the situation abit....

    hope you guys here could help him out. He's in total stress now.

    Btw here's the specs;

    Processor: Intel Core i7 920 2.67 GHZ (Liquid Cool)
    Video Card : Dual ATI Radeon 5870 1GB (each)
    Memory: 6GB 1336mhz memory
    Hard Drive: 640GB 7200rpm
    Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
    Optical Drive: 16x DVD writer
    Monitor : 1 Alienware 21.5" 1920x1080 max resolution monitor
    2 Dell 22" 1680x1050 max resolution
    Audio: Creative Soundblaster X-Fi
    Sonic Gear Armegeddon 2.1 speakers
    Keyboard: Alienware TactX Keyboard
    Mouse: Microsoft Habu Gaming Mouse

    Thank You. :D
     
    aliencommando, Dec 9, 2010
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  2. BatBoy

    BatBoy Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    BatBoy, Dec 9, 2010
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