Hey everyone, not sure if this is the right section or not.
So no good deed goes unpunished, had a church contact me with an Alienware X51 R2 that needed to be upgraded to Windows 10.
Did that, updated the drivers, had shut it down and started it back up multiple times, no issues.
And then I got the idea to update the BIOS, it was running A02 (I believe) and based off of the service tag A12 was the latest one to update to.
Downloaded the installer from Dell, ran it, progression seemed fine, didn't throw any errors but when it restarted I had no video, and the was a continuous single beep. Fffs.
Tried a view things like resetting the cmos (via jumper) and by removing the cmos battery, as well as connecting to the onboard HDMI port. But no luck.
Looking online I'm not the only one to get stung by this, but I can't seem to find a straight answer if there are any BIOS recovery options for the X51 R2. I'm still exploring the documents on Dells website, but it seems to bounce between being specific to the X51 R2 and being generic to all Dells. Hoping one of you know the answer I seek.
So no good deed goes unpunished, had a church contact me with an Alienware X51 R2 that needed to be upgraded to Windows 10.
Did that, updated the drivers, had shut it down and started it back up multiple times, no issues.
And then I got the idea to update the BIOS, it was running A02 (I believe) and based off of the service tag A12 was the latest one to update to.
Downloaded the installer from Dell, ran it, progression seemed fine, didn't throw any errors but when it restarted I had no video, and the was a continuous single beep. Fffs.
Tried a view things like resetting the cmos (via jumper) and by removing the cmos battery, as well as connecting to the onboard HDMI port. But no luck.
Looking online I'm not the only one to get stung by this, but I can't seem to find a straight answer if there are any BIOS recovery options for the X51 R2. I'm still exploring the documents on Dells website, but it seems to bounce between being specific to the X51 R2 and being generic to all Dells. Hoping one of you know the answer I seek.