How to fix your Alienware Alpha / Steam Machine when Power Button Flashes Yellow 5 Times on turn on!
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- If your power button flashes yellow 5 times and does not turn on, here is how you can fix it!
4 Times is usually memory needs to be reseated or replaced.
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This is an issue with the EEPROM chip, its consistent with every revision of the alpha, the EEPROM chips used were defective from the release, replacing the EEPROM chip with a new one flashed with a non-corrupt bios should fix 90% of Alpha consoles with the 5 yellow flashes. Correctly working eeproms should boot without a CMOS battery installed (though they wont keep system time correctly)
Yes this model is so buggy! We do battery first, then bios next. But usually its bios battery for us! Thanks for the heads up!
I reseated the Ram after blowing the Ram slots clean and my Steam Machine is now booting again after giving me the 5 blinking lights yellow lights (of death) over and over.
So thank you for the hint!
You mentioned it might be a Mainboard or Ram Issue even if 5 blinking lights, per manual, means CMOS issue. But i thought it's worth a shot to try the Ram as this is literally the only part I can manipulate, aside form reseating the CPU.
Oh right, also make sure your CMOS Battery is actually working.
Also the USB at the bottom is a slot specifically for your controller dongle, as these were Steam Machines, designed to work as a Living Room PC, they were delivered with a steam controller, and the dongle for that can be hidden in there.
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I gave mine to my brother to repair and instead of taking it apart all he had to do was plug it in and turn it on and it seems to be working properly now.
Awesome, computers can be weird :D
can the processor cause 5 blinks ? i tried the battery no joy. lights up blue for maybe 3 seconds then turns to 5 yellow blinks. when i get the volt meter on the capacitors at the back of the graphics chip its shorting so wondering it could be the cpu causing that or weather the graphics are fried ? thanks
Did you get it working ever? Could be video card or maybe bios needs to be reflashed?
Lo que usted hizo para recuperar ya lo sabía y repare, pero me volvió a dar el mismo error, pensé que me abia equivocado del error y que quizá fuera la RAM, pero decidí buscar en RUclips y me encontré este video exelente,
Min 29:55 pues hay empieza la solución, (desconectado de la corriente, preciona el botón de power por unos segundos, luego la vuelvo a conectar a la toma corriente y listo.)
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my wifi won't work on mine anymore has issues finding internet then when it finally finds internet connection and I connect to it then after awhile it doesn't work it disables it's self my internet and my neighbors internet won't show up i restart my alienware alpha and still disabled something wrong I even did a factory reset and works for a little then stops working the default windows is windows 8.1 but I upgrade it to windows 10 upgrade so not sure if its windows 10 or whats going on I have the alienware alpha cpu i3 gpu 860 version I used windows 10 on it before had no issues with wifi connection before less it's because of there new update on windows 10 when the internet worked on win 10 there was a new update for it i downloaded the new win 10 update then the internet connection stopped working on it not sure if it's that or something else if you have a fix could you please make a video
I would first try and make sure the antenna wires are plugged into the wireless card that's on the motherboard. If they are then I would replace the wireless card. Be careful pulling the 2 antenna plugs off the card and also putting them back on. Using something plastic is always good. One screw and the card comes out. can order the exact model you have (will be listed on card) or this one should work.
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i still have it after doing this. i think it is an alienware motherboard hidden issue
Is it exactly 5 flashes still? Also make sure you hook up to screen and recycle it a few times (Hold power button in for 8 seconds and then wait a few seconds and press to turn on again)? Also one time I did one and after I got back together it got 4 flashes, and it turned out it was the memory not seated properly. I took one stick out and it turned on properly, added the second back and it was fine! Another thing to check is the voltage and make sure it's getting to MB (Maybe slightly dead new battery... don't laugh had it happen). Ground the voltmeter to a ground screw on the motherboard somewhere and positive on the motherboard side of the bios plug. Make sure its 3v or slightly higher!
@@computerspecialist8533 yes, 5 flashes. It occurred after more than a month on shutdown.
Replaced cmos-same
Reset cmos- same
Hooking the blue jumper to service mode then power on-same
Returned the blue jumper then hold power for 20secs and power on solved my problem. I still replaced the cmos battery coz voltmeter reading is 0.
Yeah I would buy a nice new bios batter (Which I think you may have already did) Make sure you get 3v or higher. I have bought batteries from eBay and they only read 2.9v etc. from sitting around too long. Also you can use any other 3v bios batter with wires and swap the end from the original one (To save some $$). Another thing I have seen fix "ODD" issues in general is to set Bios to defaults within the bios settings. We have other non related "ODD" issues and this sometimes clears all the codes and the problem goes away.
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my first ylod on mine scared me to death LOL
Yeah it pretty fierce looking for a bios battery error!