Aurora R10, won’t turn on

Question

I have an aurora r10, I tried to turn it on like every other day and it wouldn’t. The fans would spin up very loudly and a yellow light flashes on the power button. Nothing pops up on the monitors, the keyboard is unresponsive. I’ve tried holding the power down for 30 seconds and no luck. And this point I’m about to trash it I’m so frustrated with this computer.

redxps630 · Accepted Answer

First thing to try is replace the small cmos battery with a new one then clear cmos settings by mobo jumper https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/en-us/alienware-aurora-r10-desktop/alienware-aurora-ryzen-service-manual/clearing-cmos-settings?guid=guid-94341e81-58b7-48a3-9995-f7516b380aff&lang=en-us

Loud fan and yellow flashing led = corrupted cmos settings

Vanadiel · Accepted Answer

How many flashes on the power button?

Table 1. Diagnostics

NUMBER OF POWER LED FLASHES	PROBLEM DESCRIPTION
1	System board: BIOS and ROM failure
2	No memory or RAM detected, system board, PSU
3	System board or chipset error
4	Memory or RAM failure
5	CMOS battery failure
6	Video card or chip failure
7	CPU failure
2,1	System board failure
2,2	No memory or RAM detected, system board, PSU
2,3	System board, memory or processor failure
3,6	BIOS recovery image not found
3,7	BIOS recovery image found but invalid

Chino de Oro · Answer

Basic troubleshooting steps for PC that power on but fail to boot into Windows https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000124359/dell-computer-does-not-boot-to-windows-10

CWick000 · Answer

@redxps630​ Thank you so much, I’m stupid with pc’s and I was so upset. There’s so many different answers people have to one problem and I’m very thankful you helped me out :)

CWick000 · Answer

@Vanadiel​ Thank you this also helped me solve my issue and for any future ones as well

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