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March 7th, 2013 05:00
Inspiron 15R N1510 Beeping on startup
My Inspiron 15R N1510 laptop emits a series of 5 shorts beeps, evenly spaced, on start-up. It repeats this until the startup music plays and then stops. Everything seems to run fine and I ran the diagnostics and it passed all of the tests. I am not sure how to make it stop beeping...
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DELL-Manshu S
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March 7th, 2013 05:00
Hi Kmcmull3,
Welcome to the Community.
Assuming that you have Dell Inspiron 15R N5110, I would like to inform that 5 beeps indicate issue with the CMOS battery. You may refer to the table mentioned below as well:
CMOS battery needs replacement to fix the issue.
Do you get any error message after the Dell Logo?
Thanks & Regards
Manshu S
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kmcmull3
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March 7th, 2013 05:00
Yea it is N5110. oops. But no I am not getting any error messages. Where could I get a replacement battery, and how much would it be?
kmcmull3
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March 7th, 2013 06:00
Ok thank you. I downloaded the service manual so I should be good to go on that. Should I record the current settings in the setup menu? Because they will be erased if I take out the battery, right?
ejn63
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March 7th, 2013 06:00
You can buy the CMOS battery just about anywhere - Target, CVS, etc. It's a lithium button cell. You must remove the palmrest to access it:
www.insidemylaptop.com/disassemble-dell-inspiron-n5110-inspiron-15r-laptop