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December 6th, 2016 22:00

Alienware 14, black screen, 8 beeps

Good day.

Decided to send this laptop to my cousin, trying to downgrade to windows 7 from windows 8.1 so he could still play some old games, entered BIOS, select LEGACY boot instead of UEFI, now the laptop won't boot up and I could hear 8 beeps, and it repeats

Laptop condition:

  1. LCD display has been removed, along with the all the cables, been running fine for 8 months with 21 inches monitor via HDMI cable.
  2. Two months ago laptop starts killing power supply, destroyed a total of 3, power supply will only become overheated and explode while playing graphic intensive games.
  3. Currently using a 19v 4a power supply / adaptor (the original adaptor is 19.5v 7.7a), it won't charge the battery but laptop been running fine for 2 months, watching movies and surf the net etc. 

I think that if I didn't choose LEGACY boot this wouldn't have happened, now I just couldn't find a way to enter the BIOS or windows, alienware recovery disk doesn't seems to do anything too. Also, holding fn+PAUSE seems to stop the beeping but I am clueless of what to do next, is there any other key combination or what I should try. Thanks

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December 8th, 2016 13:00

Hi,

Turn it off, hold the FN key and power it on. This will load the BIOS defaults.

Clear CMOS could also help to reset the BIOS settings, here is a video that will show you how to do it:

www.youtube.com/watch

Let me know!

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