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Aurora R13, blinking orange AlienHead power switch two blinks

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Hi, I had the same issue today. Everything was working fine except for the front LEDs and the alien head logo on the front was flashing 2x amber 1x white. But absolutely everything else seemed to be working just fine. I shut it down turning power completely off. I waited a few minutes and unplugged power supply from the wall. I waited about 10 minutes and plugged back in, started up again and it completely cleared the issue. I have no idea what caused this to happen in the first place. Answer from BillyVonBlazin on dell.com

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r/Alienware on Reddit: Help! Blinking orange light and when I hold power button to turning off it turns back on.

October 16, 2025 -

I just went to turn my Alienware Aurora R16 and this is what I get. What is this? I did a hard power rest where I completely turned it off and held power button for 30sec and that didn’t help.

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It would REALLY help if you don't keep moving the camera away from the power light right as it's doing its diagnostic flash sequence, so that we can see what the full sequence is...

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EDIT: PROBLEM SOLVED. It was Memory or Random-Access Memory (RAM) failure. All I did was took them out and put them back in and it worked. But this is the very first time I ran into this issue. I feel like the more your machine is powerful the more issues come out. Before I had Alienware Aurora R7 with GTX1080 TI that worked perfect! Hopefully there will be no more issues. Thank you all so much for your help!

reddit.com › r/alienware › alienware r14 aurora has a solid orange/amber light on the power button, but still works completely fine

r/Alienware on Reddit: Alienware R14 Aurora has a solid orange/amber light on the power button, but still works completely fine

April 9, 2022 -

This happened after resetting my battery backup. Any idea what might be causing it? Everything seems to be working fin. The internal LEDs all function normally, it's just the power LED that's a solid orange/amber.

Any idea what could be the issue here?

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Same is happening to me. It’s working fine now but curious if there’s something wrong with it. I had issue where monitor kept going black and I’d have to reset PC and now it’s been fine but has the solid orange.

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Solid amber—Computer is experiencing a boot failure, including the power-supply unit. I have a solid amber'ish light on mine, but boots up fine. Seems like a glitch that the light stays that color. https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/en-gd/alienware-aurora-r14-desktop/alienware-aurora-r14-service-manual/system-diagnostic-lights?guid=guid-25dfab41-5d38-4377-aac2-e15e28759dc8&lang=en-us

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r/Alienware on Reddit: Yellow flashin light on power button ( it flashes 4 times )

January 29, 2025 -

i haven’t been used this pc in almost over an year, it worked fine before, last thing i touched on it was the ram, but i placed it back in the right spot. now when i booted up it flashes 4 times, and i also dont know which of the 3 black cables goes to the graphics card. any help is appreciated 🤘

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Your system power light flashing mean the POST test has failed and the number of lights is the reason why. Number of times it flashed and the fault below. 1 System board: BIOS and ROM failure 2 No memory or RAM detected 3 System board or chipset error 4 Memory or RAM failure 5 CMOS battery failure 6 Video card or chip failure 7 CPU failure 4 is memory fail, the two reasons its happened to me are.. XMP1 enabled when trying to use 4 sticks, it runs ok with 2, but for some reason 4 just causes this fault. When my son owned this computer, I remember having to use slots 2/4 when I first upgraded the ram. Now its mine I upgraded the BIOS to the latest one and it works fine in slots 1/2 now. Maybe you need a bios upgrade, but for now, put it back in slots 2/4 and see if it boots. If not, use the bios reset jumper on the motherboard, then go into the BIOS when prompted, you don't need to change anything, just save and exit straight away and it should boot. EDIT, also, when you change the memory config, there is a very long pause before windows starts to boot and you will just have a no signal screen on the monitor. It can take a while for windows to start loading as its performing a memory test that can take some time. When you swap the sticks back to 2/4, bear this in mind and give it time. Good luck.

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June 23, 2021 - Try long press of Power Button (15 sec) In past i faced the same issue. If not resolved then replace the battery is the last option. ... You mean press for 15 seconds without the power cord attached then connect the power cord? If I press and hold with the cord connected, it powers on then shuts down after a few seconds then after 15 seconds I release then power on again, same deal.

reddit.com › r/alienware › is an orange power button something to worry about?

r/Alienware on Reddit: is an orange power button something to worry about?

July 18, 2021 -

My pc was on all night because i had been playing games until 5 am, and after turning it back on an hour after turning it off, the light turned orange once discord and steam had loaded. Is this something to be worried about? If so what exactly could the problem be? The button is normally blue.

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reddit.com › r/alienware › my alienware r4 m17 power button blinking orange and yellow

r/Alienware on Reddit: my alienware r4 m17 power button blinking orange and yellow

November 18, 2022 -

It's hooked up directly to the power source, and it's fully charged, yet the damn power button is blinking yellow and orange. I have tried to google this issue, but nothing has really helped me.

Also, I've noticed my laptop acting super buggy and laggy. Any ideas on what this could mean? Maybe a faulty CMOS battery?

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What happens if you unplug the power cable then plug it back in again? Does that sort it out?

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In Alienware Command Center, you can adjust the color of the power button while charging or on battery. Typically, it blinks Blue and Orange when charging. However, you could change the color to something else, like yellow. So, maybe check the FX tab, and try adjusting the color settings. 😀

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Hi, I had the same issue today. Everything was working fine except for the front LEDs and the alien head logo on the front was flashing 2x amber 1x white. But absolutely everything else seemed to be working just fine. I shut it down turning power completely off. I waited a few minutes and unplugged power supply from the wall. I waited about 10 minutes and plugged back in, started up again and it completely cleared the issue. I have no idea what caused this to happen in the first place.

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You need to post this under Alienware Desktops, you should get help there.

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Power button flashing patterns often indicate hardware faults or BIOS-related startup errors in Alienware laptops. A flashing green and orange power button on an Alienware laptop typically signals a hardware or POST error. This pattern may indicate ...

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r/Alienware on Reddit: Help with flashing power button

January 25, 2024 -

Please help me figure out what this means. Thank you

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Per Dell I had excess energy. Had to do a hard reboot and hold the power button for 20 seconds. Did it and it’s acting normal now. Thanks for all the input.

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This is the charging indicator on my m15.

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August 7, 2020 - Today, while playing World of Warcraft, I noticed that the power button started flashing a yellowish/orange light. It continues to flash if I put it in hibernation mode, and stops only if I physically unplug the power cord. I've had this laptop for 2 months. I'm not getting any error messages, the laptop's not freezing, stalling, its turning on and off just fine.

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January 21, 2025 - Solid Orange Light: A warning sign that the system has detected a critical failure. If your Alienware’s power button is flashing persistently, it usually means the device is stuck in a state that has hindered proper operation.

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r/OLED_Gaming on Reddit: Does anybody know why my AW3225QF monitor power button light is turning orange?

April 8, 2024 -

Title. I tried googling it but couldn’t find anything regarding this? It’s the second time I’ve seen. My “Panel Health” in the OSD is showing green so I’m confused.

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So apparently Alienware Command Centre decided to install itself and Slay the Spire sets the LEDs to orange lol

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Pixel refresh incoming

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r/Alienware on Reddit: Help! Power Button Blinking?

April 8, 2019 -

Every time I try to turn on my Alien 15 (I think thats the model) it blinks red twice and blue four times :( It won't turn on and I cant find anything online what to do, can anyone offer any help?

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https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/us/en/04/alienware-17-laptop/alienware-17-r4-servicemanual/diagnostics?guid=guid-5c341b78-b63d-499c-89d4-d341c006e437&lang=en-us Dell has the docs online as to what the power buttons led do.

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RAM failure.

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r/Alienware on Reddit: M16 R2 Power button flashes Blue and Red

May 11, 2025 -

So, I got my first Alienware M16 R2 almost a year back and the experience had been good so far. But recently I have noticed some issues with it. When I kept my laptop on sleep mode for approximately 2 hrs, the power button started flashing Blue and Red (8 times blue and 1 time Red). Upon googling I found out that it may be a hardware failure. This had happened once in the past too (about a month ago). Although the laptop starts up just fine after restarting, I'm still worried about it. What should I do? Contact the support team or let it slide? Or are there any other known fixes?

Thank you in advance :)

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I've heard windows 11 had issues with sleep mode, especially for extended periods. For the meaning of the light code, there's a table in the user manual on the Dell support website, it can help you troubleshoot but maybe Windows is the culprit. Are you up to date with your OS updates?

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Don’t use sleep mode its broken as hell. Had similar experience on my m18r2. Shut it down normally and see how it works.

reddit.com › r/alienware › anyone know what this type of blinking means ?

r/Alienware on Reddit: Anyone know what this type of blinking means ?

October 22, 2023 -

Turned my m18 on this morning and this has happened can anyone tell me what’s happening with it

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Mothership is trying to communicate

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Is your battery completely drained ? I got this when I drained my battery to like 1 % and it’s about to shut down … that’s when I saw sim blinking on mine …

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User-defined color (AC mode) – Power adapter is connected and the battery is fully charged.

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The power-status light indicates the power status of the computer.

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March 7, 2018 - At the same time, the computer ... starting the laptop up, the same thing happens except the power button flashes orange instead of blue - as if to have a low battery....

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Hi @jayhernandez · Does it do this with the charger connected, you didn't say? · Try a full power refresh in case it is a corrupted BIOS and check if that resolves the problem. · I realize that you said that you said “…I've reseated the battery,” but sometimes it is necessary to also remove the RTC battery (Real Time Clock) from the motherboard as well to reset the BIOS back to its default state. · Here’s the procedure: · a). Disconnect the charger from the laptop if connected. · b). Disconnect the main battery from the motherboard. · c). Disconnect the RTC coin cell battery from the motherboard. · Here’s the service manual for the laptop as linked by you. Go to p.46 & p.47 to view the necessary pre-requisite steps and then the procedure to remove the RTC battery and the main battery respectively. · When the RTC battery is removed measure its voltage. If it is <2.6V DC replace it. Search online for Alienware 15 R3 cmos battery, to find suppliers of the part. (cmos battery = RTC battery) · d). Press and hold the laptop's Power button for a full 30 seconds and then release it · e.) Reconnect the RTC battery (or its replacement) and the main battery. · f). Reverse the above to re-assemble the laptop. · g.) When the laptop is completely re-assembled, connect the charger and try to turn on the laptop. · If it starts OK there may be a message about the date and time being incorrect. This is normal as the BIOS has been completely reset back to its default settings. Once the date and time have been adjusted the message won’t appear the next time that the laptop is started. · If you had previously changed any user defined settings in BIOS to suit whatever specific hardware configuration that you had for the laptop, then these will have to be set again.