I had a problem where the laptop stopped closing down properly.
The operating system would shutdown, but the Power LED, Network LED, and fan would continue until I held the power switch down for a few seconds.
I noticed that there was a new BIOS A08 (currently A06 on this laptop) that solved S4/S5 issues (I thought this may have something to do with it).
However, when I started the BIOS update, the machine went into the state mentioned above during the update, and I had to power it off manually.
This action seems to have caused an issue as the laptop will no longer boot.
Now, when I press the power button,
- The Power light comes on
- The three buttons on the right light up in the following sequence: 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 1+2, 1+2+3, all off.
- The cd seeks to zero (I guess thats what it is doing).
- The fan comes on.
Then all switches off except the power LED, and the laptop emits a sequence of three beeps, pause, three beeps. This goes on...
I can only assume I have messed up the BIOS update and need to fix this.
From several searches, the suggestion is that I can create an emergency BIOS update disc/USB stick. However, I have not been able to get information on how to create this recovery disk. All I have at the moment is the windows bios update file, 5423A08.exe.
Can anyone help before I have to call DELL support ?
