Area-51 R5, lights stopped working

Question

So, I'm in the 3rd year of my Area-51 R5 desktop computer. I have not made any modifications to the machine since I purchased the PC. This week, I've noticed the lights on the front and side stopped working. Crazy part is when I boot the machine up, the lights work. Then after a few minutes (not sure how long) the lights are off.  I've gone into the Alienware Command Center app and made sure the lighting theme was set properly. I just seems that it is odd that all of a sudden this has happened.  So, about 2 weeks ago I had a service call on the PC for the power button. I was experiencing sporadic situations where you press the button to turn on and if fails to boot up. Fans come on and the lights were on so it was like, the 'lights were on but nobody was home'. The board for the power button was replaced. So is this coincidence or is it just unrelated and there is a new problem? This obviously does not affect the PC at all.  What do you think? Greg

gzt7d8gs · Accepted Answer

I'm not sure what's going on. I've noticed that this has been happening the past couple of days. Was it happening prior to that; I'm not sure.

I started the machine up for the 2nd time today and it has been running for over an hour and all is good. It wasn't that way earlier this morning.

So, at this point, I'm not sure if there is a problem or not.

I'll watch it and if it becomes more consistent in its abnormal behavior, I'll start a new post with more information.

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