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October 22nd, 2016 23:00
Aurora R4 5 Beeps on startup.
I bought my Aurora R4 quite a few years ago, I have a very, very strong feeling that the warranty ran out.
It was working fine one night, before I went to bed, I shut it off (went to start, it had an update, so just clicked update and shut down, like I've done before, and went to bed)
The next morning I went to turn it on, and it would power up, fans all spin fine, except I get nothing on my monitors, not even the alienware logo, and 5 beeps.
After looking up that this was a RTC failure, and friend went and bought me a new CMOS battery ( he bought a DL2032, not sure if it needs to be the CR2032)
We replaced the old battery with the new one, and nothing changed.
So after doing some searching on what others had done to fix the problem; and nothing works for me.
I've repeated everything, I've tried every single thing I can find on the Internet and nothing works.
I'm begging for help on this.
I don't have any of the information when I first bought the computer, all I know is that when I called Dell they told me they have no information on me or my purchase. This was years ago, so there's the potential that I used my ex girlfriends name or something, I don't know.
All I know is my names not in the system to even see if I have warranty.
I love this computer, it has everything I've worked on over the last few years and would hate to part with it.
If anyone has any idea what could be the issue, please let me know.
(I was told if I boot without ram or cmos in and it gave me the 2 beeps for no ram, then my motherboard wouldn't be the issue)


Tesla1856
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October 23rd, 2016 14:00
Be sure new CMOS battery is actually good (voltage etc,). You also must do CMOS reset.
If Power-Supply is good, then it might be a bad motherboard (or some part installed on it) ... yes, it happens.
en.community.dell.com/.../19530277
A machine that fails to Post is an advanced repair. You usually need a computer tech with advanced skills and experience to fix it.
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October 23rd, 2016 22:00
Also, check that your Asetek Cooler is working properly. There is a pump on the heat-sink, fan on the radiator, should have no blockage, etc.. If it's bad, CPU will over-heat quickly ... maybe even causing machine not to BIOS-Post and instead throw a beep-code.
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October 23rd, 2016 23:00
Looks like 5-Beeps can be almost anything.
Users are even talking about video card problems.
www.google.com/
If you didn't have to pull video-card to get to battery, you might try re-seating it or trying a PCIe spare (even if it's small, old, or weak).