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Dell XPS L521X reboot loop
Hello all, recently my computer died on me and gave me the beep codes with a black screen and no startup. I had 5 beeps and saw that I would need to replace the cmos battery, in which I replaced. However, the laptop flashes a blue screen immediately after the Windows starting logo appears and reboots the laptop. I have tried running in safe mode but that did not work either. Another thing I tried was running Windows startup recovery but that found nothing. Any help is wanted thanks
ejn63
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August 12th, 2016 04:00
You may have lost your CMOS settings for the hard drive. What OS is on the system?
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August 12th, 2016 16:00
I am using Windows 7
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August 12th, 2016 16:00
Depending on the system model, the hard drive may have been set in ATA, AHCI, or RAID mode - if that changed, Windows won't load. The most likely setting should be AHCI. Check that (F2 at powerup).
What model system?
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August 13th, 2016 00:00
I'm not sure I can find what you're referring to. I am at the boot menu but I don't see anything about the HDD involving ATA, RAID, etc