Inspiron 3650, will not turn on after Dell Update

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This just happened to me last week with a dell work laptop. It shows "bootguard has verified that dxe is fail" once every 30 reboots or so. 

Display driver issue or display blinging problem on my Laptop on Windows 10 

Hello, I have Dell Inspiron 15 (3521) Laptop; and i am having a display driver issue. Sometimes my display was blinging. The reason is while working on my Laptop on Chrome it get stuck on black and blue screen and after sometime the privacy comment is that display driver is not working. I want a solution for this effective critical problem for my system....is this display problem or else? What should i do? Please help me!

http://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/19/sln308237/dell-client-statement-on-intel-me-txe-advisory-intel-sa-00086-?lang=en

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@Atul Gautam wrote:

Display driver issue or display blinging problem on my Laptop on Windows 10 

Hello, I have Dell Inspiron 15 (3521) Laptop; and i am having a display driver issue. Sometimes my display was blinging. The reason is while working on my Laptop on Chrome it get stuck on black and blue screen and after sometime the privacy comment is that display driver is not working. I want a solution for this effective critical problem for my system....is this display problem or else? What should i do? Please help me!

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I was upgrading my BIOS from v.3.5.2 to v.3.6.0 on Dell Inspiron 3650, and exact same thing happened to me!  Picture below shows the last thing I saw, before a "Restart" prompt appeared.  After I rebooted, the computer can never, ever boot up again.  It doesn't even post any more (BIOS no longer working), no beeps, only the blue power LED and fans are on.  After reviewing this picture, I noticed 2 bad things about this BIOS update.  (1) BIOS update occured in the Windows environment, instead of DOS/shell, which apparently made it unsafe.  (2) "Restart" prompt appeared prematurely in my case, while BIOS was still being erased.  This should be enough to prove that these BIOS upgrade programs are very poorly written.

I was upgrading my BIOS from v.3.5.2 to v.3.6.0 on Dell Inspiron 3650, and exact same thing happened to me!  Picture below shows the last thing I saw, before a "Restart" prompt appeared.  After I rebooted, the computer can never, ever boot up again.  It doesn't even post any more (BIOS no longer working), no beeps, only the blue power LED and fans are on.  After reviewing this picture, I noticed 2 bad things about this BIOS update.  (1) BIOS update occured in the Windows environment, instead of DOS/shell, which apparently made it unsafe.  (2) "Restart" prompt appeared prematurely in my case, while BIOS was still being erased.  This should be enough to prove that these BIOS upgrade programs are very poorly written.

Mine did the same thing 2 weeks ago, Dell Inspiron 3650 with Windows 10. I did a hard restart and she died! Tried to power back up and got the fan and an amber light flashed for second and shut back down. Fortunately when I purchased at Best Buy I also bought the 4 year geek squad repair plan. They shipped it out to Kentucky on 8/2/2018 and I just got it back yesterday,they had to replace the motherboard.

hello does anyone know if there is any workaround? to rollback this bios update! i got same problem, the pc just turn on but no display! Fans and power on, but there is only an orange solid blink then when i try to power off, it automatically turn on again with the same problem! please any help or someone who had solved this issue or what i have to do, i dont have any warranty on this dell inspiron 3650, could be the motherboard or also the processor?

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@OSDOZ wrote:

hello does anyone know if there is any workaround? to rollback this bios update! i got same problem, the pc just turn on but no display! Fans and power on, but there is only an orange solid blink then when i try to power off, it automatically turn on again with the same problem! please any help or someone who had solved this issue or what i have to do, i dont have any warranty on this dell inspiron 3650, could be the motherboard or also the processor?

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Have you tried the BIOS Recovery options?

Depending on when the Dell warranty expired, your credit card company might cover repairs during the second year of PC ownership, if you bought the PC with that card. So check with the card company.

And look into Dell Out-Of-Warranty repairs if you don't want to buy a motherboard and replace it yourself.

I am not sure where to post this suggestion but I figure this is a good place to start:

I am a computer repair shop in small town Alabama.  One of my customers brought me in a Dell Inspiron 3650 which after a Dell Support Assist recommended BIOS update would no longer start properly.  Here are the actual symptoms when I turned it on:

~  System starts but no video and after about 10-12 seconds begins a restart loop every 5 seconds.

After researching and trying everything out there I could find, reset cmos (pulled battery & moved jumper on motherboard), pulled RAM and tried individually (even tried new RAM), tested power supply and came up with the conclusion that the Dell BIOS update corrupted the BIOS & the motherboard probably needs to be replaced.  At this point I had nothing to lose so I tried one more thing that I never found on any forums I searched:

~  On the motherboard there are 3 jumpers, cmclr1 (cmos clear), pwclr1 (password clear) & meclr1 (me clear).  Since I had already tried the cmclr1 jumper to clear the cmos with no luck, I pulled the "meclr1" jumper and placed it on pins 2 & 3 (me disable), powered up the system & voila!  There is life back in the system again.

~  Sorry for the long story but before sending your PC back to Dell or to the recycle bin try the "meclr1" jumper and hopefully your system will come back to life again as well.

~  Best of luck to everyone dealing with this issue!

P.S.  Just a side note, the BIOS that caused all of this and is currently running in this system is 3.9.0 which is not even available through the Dell support website for download any longer (current BIOS available is 3.8.0) but somehow ended up on system due to Dell Support Assist update.  Probably going to try an earlier BIOS and reseat meclr1 jumper back to normal (pins 1 & 2) to see if it will work and advise customer not to update unless they notice an issue with their system.

@Alabama123- Thanks but that MECLR1 fix has already been posted in several threads about Inspiron 3650 boot failures after updating BIOS to 3.9.0. Trouble is that we don't know if this fix even applies to any prior version(s) of BIOS that caused the boot failures reported in this old thread. And we have no way to know why 3.9.0 isn't listed on the Support page.

Best advice = uninstall SupportAssist so it won't force risky and/or unnecessary updates. :Wink:

Deleted....problem solved.