Dell Studio XPS 435 MT, 3 yrs. old, intel i7 CPU, 64 bit operating system, 4GB ram, but when you right-click computer, properties, it says 3GB ram. I have been having this problem for a month. We leave the computer on at night half the time and half the time turn it off. One morning it would not turn on, only had an amber blink when you pushed the power button. My warrenty from Dell is expired but I did get some tech support, and at one point got the pc on, which gave me a CMOS message, Dell told me I needed to call the Geek Squad, which I cannot afford at this time so I got onto this forum and read alot of posts by many user's and the end result was I bought a new CR2032 battery and installed it. Everything is good, pc powers up as it should, clock issue fixed. Let me just say, the only change to this computer, and it was around the time this issue started, was that I updated the graphics card, for an online MMORPG game that I play. The graphics driver is and ATI Radeon HD4350, I went to the AMD site and updated. RAM issue I just noticed before starting this post is that pc says 3.00gb ram, my invoice says 4.00, and I'm sure the computer has said 4.00 previously.
On to the issue!! After replacing the battery things worked fine. I like to leave the pc on at night, last week in the am I came to the computer and it was on but totally unresponsive, black screen, mouse movement and enter key made no difference. I held the power button down turned it off and of course it wouldn't turn back on. I got on the Dell mini, came t this website, read some more, ended up reseating everything, battery out for 10 mins., computer then turned on. The next day, same issue, black screen, etc. powered down by holding power button. Waited a few mins., hit power, it blinked orange, tried again in 5 mins, it blinked orange but I held the button down, it turned white and pc came on. No error messages at any time at reboots, except of course, windows did not shut down properly etc. Yesterday the motherboard beeped at me, single repeating beeps I quit counting after 12. Today I did get more beeps, double repeating beeps that i also quit counting after 12 sets. I have read about the power supply on these degading, might that be the issue. I have read about people jumpering wires to figure out the issue, which I am not prepared to do! It seems like, if you unplug the pc, take the battery out, reseat everything, plug it in, it will work again. Today when I did it, I hit power and had a flashing amber light,hit and held the power button which then turned white and came on. I am at the end of what I know to do to fix, or diagnose the problem, any help, ideas, would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
On to the issue!! After replacing the battery things worked fine. I like to leave the pc on at night, last week in the am I came to the computer and it was on but totally unresponsive, black screen, mouse movement and enter key made no difference. I held the power button down turned it off and of course it wouldn't turn back on. I got on the Dell mini, came t this website, read some more, ended up reseating everything, battery out for 10 mins., computer then turned on. The next day, same issue, black screen, etc. powered down by holding power button. Waited a few mins., hit power, it blinked orange, tried again in 5 mins, it blinked orange but I held the button down, it turned white and pc came on. No error messages at any time at reboots, except of course, windows did not shut down properly etc. Yesterday the motherboard beeped at me, single repeating beeps I quit counting after 12. Today I did get more beeps, double repeating beeps that i also quit counting after 12 sets. I have read about the power supply on these degading, might that be the issue. I have read about people jumpering wires to figure out the issue, which I am not prepared to do! It seems like, if you unplug the pc, take the battery out, reseat everything, plug it in, it will work again. Today when I did it, I hit power and had a flashing amber light,hit and held the power button which then turned white and came on. I am at the end of what I know to do to fix, or diagnose the problem, any help, ideas, would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.