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17 R1, 8 beep after enabling ‘Load legacy ROM’
After fixing the motherboard of my Alienware 17 r1, the laptop went on Windows Recovery Environment, I accidentally enabled the ‘Load legacy ROM’ to install windows from a flash drive. What should I do?
JF Briones
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July 21st, 2020 20:00
http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/980m-enabled-load-legacy-rom-now-8-beeps-help.785533/
They also experienced the problem I have, maybe it wasn’t because of the repair.
speedstep
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July 21st, 2020 20:00
8 beeps means the LCD cable is damaged.
So you broke things during your "repair"
speedstep
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July 21st, 2020 21:00
NON Dell hardware would require secure boot OFF.
Alienware Area-51 ALX 2006
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September 14th, 2020 12:00
How exactly did you fix it?
did you replace it from dell or parts-people or amazon?
Because if you get extremely lucky, you get an oem motherboard but that’s only from dell and parts-people as amazons a complete other story.
mattyb3
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September 16th, 2020 15:00
An 8 beep code is LCD fault or possibly a GPU fault (if you have the 120Hz display). Enabling the Legacy ROM shouldn't really cause this error. Edit: Depending on what GPU you have
You may be able to perform an NVRAM reset to get the BIOS back to default.
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September 18th, 2020 08:00
NVram reset basically disconnecting the cmos battery for 5 min and then putting it back in.