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    M14X R2 bricked totally...

    Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by omygoodness, Nov 14, 2012.

  1. omygoodness

    omygoodness Newbie

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    Hello,
    I changed bios to A09 and everything worked fine some time but unfortunately i tried to recover A03 Unlocked version and when i was using usb with bios + END button, power went down and process of recovering it was interrupted.
    Now I can't power up alienware. So i tried to pull out RAM, HDD, battery, cmos battery and still cant power up my laptop.

    Any ideas what to do?
     
    omygoodness, Nov 14, 2012
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  2. greenfield

    greenfield Notebook Guru

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    I think I've read, that if you flash to A08/A09, there is no easy way to go back to previous revs... and yeah, I think if nothing changed from the last post I've read (it was quite a while) about it, you have just bricked for good...
     
    greenfield, Nov 14, 2012
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  3. Alienware-L_Porras

    Alienware-L_Porras Company Representative

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    I've read users that did a blind flash to fix his type of issues. You will need to look for that to fix it. If not, then replacing the motherboard would be the way to go.
     
    Alienware-L_Porras, Nov 15, 2012
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