Alienware Area 51m-R1 bricked
Hi everyone, i got a Alienware Area 51M-R1 that recently stopped working after downgrading the bios from 1.5.0 to 1.3.2. When powering on the laptop with the charger plugged in it does not post, fans don't spin and the keyboard doesn't light up either except the power button logo.
The logo shows a green light for a few seconds and then goes off for a second and keeps repeating for about 4-5 times. After that i get 2 red flashes followed by 1 blue flash which keeps repeating. This code usually means cpu failure but i can confirm that the cpu works because i tested it on a other system
After some research i found out that this code can also be caused by a corruped bios/rom flash. After hours of searching online i finally found someone that uploaded the bios/ec files that can be flashed on the IC's by using a external programmer. On my motherboard i found 3 IC's which are the following: W25Q128JVSQ, W25Q80DVSIG, GD25Q80CSIG
I flashed the 3 files on the IC's and the laptop started working again. I wanted to try to downgrade again but i made a backup of the bios first with my external programmer before doing it but the results ended up the same. When flashing the backup bios i still ended up getting the same symptoms as i mentioned at the beginning. Is this motherboard completely dead now ?
System Specifications:
Service Tag: 3W0QMV2
i9-9900K
RTX 2060
2x16GB DDR4 2666
Kingston KC3000 1TB
Samsung 970 EVOPlus 2TB
Firecuda HDD 1TB
The logo shows a green light for a few seconds and then goes off for a second and keeps repeating for about 4-5 times. After that i get 2 red flashes followed by 1 blue flash which keeps repeating. This code usually means cpu failure but i can confirm that the cpu works because i tested it on a other system
After some research i found out that this code can also be caused by a corruped bios/rom flash. After hours of searching online i finally found someone that uploaded the bios/ec files that can be flashed on the IC's by using a external programmer. On my motherboard i found 3 IC's which are the following: W25Q128JVSQ, W25Q80DVSIG, GD25Q80CSIG
I flashed the 3 files on the IC's and the laptop started working again. I wanted to try to downgrade again but i made a backup of the bios first with my external programmer before doing it but the results ended up the same. When flashing the backup bios i still ended up getting the same symptoms as i mentioned at the beginning. Is this motherboard completely dead now ?
System Specifications:
Service Tag: 3W0QMV2
i9-9900K
RTX 2060
2x16GB DDR4 2666
Kingston KC3000 1TB
Samsung 970 EVOPlus 2TB
Firecuda HDD 1TB
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