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November 5th, 2022 09:00
Area-51 R5, boot issues
Alienware Area-51 R4 and R5
Area 51 R5 so last night my PC suddenly gave me 4 beeps repeating and failed to boot. Going into BIOS it said not flashing and restarted. After a restart the BIOS did load but system said Boot Drive Unaccessable. I have since managed to get PC to boot going through Windows recovery etc. Then today system booted fine this morning then this afternoon same issue. This time in the BIOS once it appeared I turned Legacy boot off and enabled TPM Security. Again Windows recovery started up and then I just clicked close and start Windows 11 and it booted ok.
My questions are this could this issue be caused by the motherboard battery the round silver CR2032. Will replacing it solve issue. Or is issue with my M2 SSD. Any help or advice be greatly accepted
ProfessorW00d
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November 5th, 2022 09:00
Get a new CR2032 coin cell battery to eliminate that as the source of the problem. There is nothing in the Area-51 that is easier or cheaper to replace than the coin cell battery.
Vanadiel
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November 5th, 2022 09:00
4 Beeps is system RAM or memory failure as per the service manual: R5 service manual
I would run a diagnostic test and see if any error codes come up: ePSA test
Pompey John
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November 8th, 2022 01:00
So update to issue replaced the cr2032 coin cell battery and so far (touch wood) issue has gone. I am hoping it was that simple an issue and all is now good thank you for the help.