![]() Disconnect the battery for 10 minutes, and when you plug the cmos battery back, then do the power drain (1 minute hold). Then we got lucky, oddly it only appeared to work this particular order: So we bought 2 batteries from amazon, and followed the power drain instructions, read several forums and followed several instrucions but still couln't get them to work this time. Then last month (feb 2021), my brother´s alpha started having the flashing yellow light code (5 times = cmos battery) so we swapped batteries just to verify it was the battery, instead both of them started having the blinking issue. Had this issue once and solved it by just changing the CMOS battery. We have 2 alphas at home, bough one in 2016 and the other about 2 years later. This may be a little late, or maybe not, since its something that only happens when cmos batteries die. I'm also planning to get a new custom Alienware New Auora computer as my main, but I atleast want to still have my Alpha working (even after I get my New Auora) without sending it in for costly servicing in the meantime. And I'm not even sure replacing it would even fix the problem. One thing that could be the culprit could be the AC adapter, but I'm not sure if I could check it with my Inspiron 1545 and NOT blow it up. So at this point, I'm lost, and still stuck in that theoretical tar pit mentioned earlier. Maybe the BIOS might be corrupted, or the RTCRST jumper does something else on this revision, or its disabled on my BIOS version? And then next, I resorted to disconnecting, and eventually, taking out the CMOS battery, and then waited for the system to drain, if it's even draining at all. It's supposed to be where your still able to turn it on, but on mine in this specific case, it doesn't. ![]() I put the jumper on that pin header, and plugged in the Alpha, and usually this is where you power on the system, but nope, it didn't. So I looked up the problem again, and found out about something called a RTCRST jumper. So here we go again with the reset procedure, but this time, when I plugged it in again, the problem was still there, and this is the point where I'm losing my mind on how to fix this. Again, I thought it was no big thing too, because maybe I didn't hold it down long enough. I was wrong this time.Īfter I tried to do the reset procedure, I still got the blinking light again. I thought it wasn't too much of an issue, because I could just do the usual CMOS reset procedure and go on with my day. And yet again, I turned on my Alpha and got greeted with the infamous "yellow light blinking 5 times". This feels like a Windows bug to me, as the CMOS doesn't get corrupted when auto-reboot is enabled (but the clock battery might tell me otherwise).Īnyways, this time, I crashed my system because of a USB PnP related issue (guess Windows doesn't like applications having an open XInput thread when you plug in a controller?), and had to shut down the computer again. ![]() I would then proceed to do the procedure where I hold the power button down for 1+ minutes, and then turn on the system, reconfigure the BIOS settings, and then go back to my unsorted work per usual. It always seems to happen after I turn off my system after a BSOD, and then turn it back on again (I have auto-reboot on crash disabled). ![]() My alpha recently just gained the classic 5 yellow light blinks for about the 6th(?) time now, but this time, I think I'm seriously stuck in the tar pit.
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