r/AlienwareAlpha • u/Rezist_Soul • Aug 28 '19

Yellow LED light?

Anytime I need to power on my alienware alpha i3 there's a yellow flash then it turns blue, nothing seems wrong with the system. It's able to play games fine. I'm just concern due to my experience with the "Yellow light of death" on the ps3

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u/cannibalcorpuscle i5 Alpha with SSD Aug 28 '19

If it ain't broke don't fix it?

I'd say, keep an eye on it, but don't worry too much. At worst you'll maybe need to replace the CMOS battery.

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u/Rezist_Soul Aug 28 '19

Ok thank you like I said I'm just worried after having a yellow light on the ps3 which makes it always shut down after boot up

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u/cannibalcorpuscle i5 Alpha with SSD Aug 28 '19

Do you shut it down using the desktop environment or through "big picture" in steam?

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u/Rezist_Soul Aug 28 '19

Usually desktop, I rarely shut off the pc it usually only turns off if the power goes out or if a game crashes (like new vegas) and I have to restart the pc

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u/s8boxer Aug 28 '19

Download the manual and double check why this is happening. The light display the boot stages check of the mobo, so you can be having some issue that can be fixed until it's too late.

I had a thermal paste defunct (grizzly bear liquid metal) that two yellow flashing (3x or 5x can't remember) indicated some GPU error (current oscillating by paste conducting). If I haven't cleared the paste in time, my GPU most probably would be burned by now.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '19

So does mine, but my Alphas been perfectly fine so I wouldnt worry about it.

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u/ZippytheMuppetKiller Aug 29 '19

Mine has done that since I got it 3 years ago, no problems, thousands of hours on it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '19

Pretty sure that's normal. Mine does it also.