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May 20th, 2016 21:00

Laptop won't turn on and beeps infinitely

My inspiron 3521 wont turn on and beeps forever. I started trying to see if it beeped a certain amount of times but i stopped at 32. I do not have warranty and the only way to use my laptop is to repeatedly turn it on and off several times.

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May 22nd, 2016 02:00

Hi JoseCc7,

Thank you for writing to the Dell Community Forum.

The system would emit beeps in a sequence following a repetitive beep codes. Please refer to this table and let us know the status.

Beeps

Description

Possible Cause

1

BIOS ROM checksum in progress or failure

System board failure, covers BIOS corruption or ROM errors.

2

No Memory (RAM) detected

Memory or Memory slot failure

3

  • chipset Error (North and South bridge error, DMA/IMR/Timer error)
  • Time-Of-Day Clock test failure
  • Gate A20 failure
  • Super I/O chip failure
  • Keyboard controller test failure

System board failure

4

Memory read / write failure

Memory failure

5

Real Time Clock (RTC) power fail

CMOS battery failure

6

Video BIOS test failure

Video subsystem failure

7

CPU Cache test failure

Processor failure

8

LCD

LCD failure

Please reply if you have any further questions.

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