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March 17th, 2024 02:02

Aurora R10, system board failure?

I have tried a lot and replaced the cmos battery and tried moving the memory card and nothing, I also tried looking into the power supply nothing, only thing I haven’t tried is buying a new board, any other ideas?

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March 17th, 2024 02:27

What is the back story . . . which Alienware do you have? What were you doing right before it stopped working? What makes you think it is a system board failure? The more information the better we can help.

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March 17th, 2024 03:25

OP had followed a previous thread

“My Aurora R10 (Ryzen 7 3700X) does not boot and the power button flashes 2 then 1. The manual says this is motherboard related. I changed the motherboard with a new one, and still same issue.”

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March 17th, 2024 04:14

yes, I know . . . still trying to extract information. I don't want to be making assumptions and guessing.

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March 17th, 2024 07:59

It’s a r10 and before I was playing on it and shut it off by power button because my monitor started acting up and I left it alone woke up and it started acting like this also it’s a 2,1 flash white light 

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March 17th, 2024 16:36

Monitor starting to act up could point to a video card failure.

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March 17th, 2024 17:23

Make sure your graphics card is securely seated and locked in the slot.

Disconnect power from the PSU, hold the power button in for 30 seconds, take out all for your RAM modules, reconnect power and try to boot with no RAM installed. The diagnostic blink code should change to a 2-blink pattern if your motherboard is functioning properly.

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March 17th, 2024 17:54

@Vanadiel​ no not that but smart and thank you it’s just the monitor having a issue

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March 17th, 2024 19:17

Very peculiar that a monitor issue would cause a 2:1 diagnostic blink code.

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March 6th, 2025 01:33

@ProfessorW00d​ My Aurora R10 (Ryzen 7 3700X) does not boot and the power button flashes 2 then 1. How it all happened. I changed the RAM to a one 32gb stick and from there it wouldn't boot up. Heard a spark and white light trying to boot and after it won't even try to power on. Only reason I see the flash is because I press power button at the same time as I press the back test button. Other than that the test button is the only thing that powers the Fans and GPU .... I changed everything back and did all the steps on here and to no resolution 

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March 6th, 2025 02:34

@Spaniard848​  A spark flash is never good news. Try taking out all of your RAM. Boot up with no RAM installed and see if you get the 2 blink pattern . . . no RAM detected. If you do, it might mean that your motherboard is still functioning.

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March 6th, 2025 02:41

It didn't change anything 

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March 6th, 2025 02:41

Funny thing after all that the PC tried starting up without having touched anything 

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March 6th, 2025 02:46

@Spaniard848​    hold in the power button for 30 seconds to clear CMOS. Then see what she does.

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March 6th, 2025 02:52

Did that 2 times got Same results 

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March 7th, 2025 00:30

@Spaniard848​   get a good light source and see if you can find where the spark was initiated. Any burn marks or damages components on your motherboard? The outlook does not appear to be good.

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