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November 30th, 2024 00:02
Aurora R6, odd/failed boot up
Hello and thanks for any insights or help you people can give me.
This morning, while booting up my(this) computer, on the screen with the Alienware head symbol, my system prints "l1f_reset_mac" 11 times. Each was numbered from 2 to 12.
Then the system just sat there.
I waited about 2 minutes but nothing was happening.
So I performed a hard shut down (Held the power button(front) for 6-8 seconds and it shut off).
Powered off all external drives and left them powered off.
Waited a minute and pushed the power button(front).
Nothing happened.
Disconnected the main power cord from the computer and waited ~1 minute.
Reconnected power cord and pushed the power button(front).
The system powered on normally and seems to be okay.
But I still have the external drives disconnected and I am presently running the Windows Security Scan on drive 'C'.
After that, I will run it on drive 'D'.
And then I will connect each of the external drives, one at a time, and run the Scan on that drive before going on to the next drive.
Again, thanks for any insight or other help you people can give me.
--ThWatcher
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November 30th, 2024 00:03
Also note, the system is an Alienware R6 desktop.
Vanadiel
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November 30th, 2024 00:08
Make sure your boot order is set to boot from your drive, and not from network card.
ThWatcher
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November 30th, 2024 00:21
@Vanadiel Thanks, will do that when this first scan is done.
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November 30th, 2024 00:41
@Vanadiel I decided I'd refresh my mind on the proceedure and realized I could do it in windows in the msconfig/boot tab. Checked and it is set to default boot off the Drive 'C', Windows.
And there is no other operating system, (at least none while the external drives are disconnected).
Will check again as I connect the external drives.
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November 30th, 2024 00:50
Another note: I don't think it would be the problem, but I did just replace the power supply in the computer 2 days ago. It came up and ran fine that day and yesterday, so I hadn't thought that the new Power Supply would be the cause/problem.
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December 3rd, 2024 21:06
I finished scanning drives C and D. There was a virus in a file on drive D. Deleted it and reboot and scanned again. All seems to be well with the scans now.
The original problem has NOT shown up since that first time. So, maybe it was the virus, or maybe just some random glitch. Don't know.
I'll post again if the original problem or anything that seems related shows up.
Again, thanks for the help.
--ThWatcher
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