hamhatch

Alright I'm back, school has me real busy. Unfortunately the memory insertion method did not work. After reinserting the memory stick the laptop goes back to the single beep, never goes to 5. I heard that an 17 4700mq could reset a bios so I'll try that If there's no other suggestions. And if that doesn't work I will either replace the motherboard or sell this thing to someone with more free time depending on how lazy I am feeling that day.

Hello, I Recently acquired an alienware 17 r1 with the single beep error code. All my sources say it's most likely a bios corruption issue and that seems to be the case so I am trying to do a blind flash. I cannot find any guides or anything on how to do a blind flash on this machine. I have pieced together multiple guides on multiple different alienwares and I am mostly there (I am able to do the whole end key thing to start the process.) Now I need to configure the usb stick with the bios file. I put the a17 and a05 .exe file on the fat32 drive, I have renamed it to .hdr. I have extracted it and looked for a .fd/.hdr/.bin. can't find any. Does anyone know how to acquire the .fd or .hdr file I need to do a blind flash? I am unsure of the specs other than what's on the alienware plate on the bottom, I am trying to disassemble this but unfortunately for me the last person in here decided to strip every screw they could get their hands on. Hoping they just did a repaste instead of an upgrade to something that requires a custom bios/vbios or whatever because I'm not on that step yet so I know nothing about it. thanks.