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6-Tone no POST
I recently purchased an Alienware Aurora R4 with a AMD Radeon R9-270 and after one day of working fine, I started receiving this 6-tone POST failure. I've reseated the card, tried the other slot, and called in a replacement through tech support. However, I am still receiving the POST failure and have not heard back from a technician after contacting Dell support again. Im wondering if there is anything else I can do on my part without a specialist or a whole new system.
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July 26th, 2014 16:00
Power supply may be a problem. 6 beeps = dead video card.
Sethhet
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July 26th, 2014 16:00
I am aware the 6 beeps means the video card isn't working, but after reseating it in either slot as well as doing so with a replacement, I am still getting the failure. It also stumps me as to why this happened after the first day of it working fine. It failed on me after i did a single windows update. I don't think it's a power issue either, because when I attempt to run the computer, the video card fans work fine, so I'm assuming there is not power problem. The only other thing I can assume is that there is some issue with the connection to the motherboard, which I have no clue how to handle nor do I want to tinker with.