Alienware m14x beeping on startup

[Groovy_1]

I have an Alienware m14x that I've had for around 4 years. I got a little drunk last night and threw up on my keyboard. When I woke up this morning, I plugged it in and it booted up normally. I took it to my kitchen to clean it, and took keys off. It died from not having battery power, so I plugged it in my room, and when I tried to turn it on, nothing popped up on the screen. It was pure black, and my laptop made 8 beeping sounds, without booting up. I have been told it's an LED error, and that it could be my GPU. I don't know how to fix this, and my laptop is no longer under warranty. If anyone could help me out with this I would really appreciate it. Thank you.

 

[Frag Maniac]

The beeps are part of a code. According to Dell's Alienware laptop beep code table, 8 beeps means an LCD problem. Did you by chance get any barf on the screen? If so, some of it could have dripped down into the crevice at the bottom of the screen and damaged it. As far as I know, most if not all MX14s are LED vs CCFL, so they have no LCD power inverter. Unfortunately that may also mean the entire screen is damaged, vs just the inverter, as is often the case when such a thing happens on a CCFL laptop.

That said, I've seen MX14 LCD screens for $40 - $60, which are usually the MX14 R2 model, which is most common as far as I know. There are also fairly easy to follow guides on how to replace an MX14 screen.

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Laptops
1 Possible Motherboard (covers BIOS corruption or ROM error)
2 No RAM detected
3 Possible Motherboard Chipset
4 RAM failure (other)
5 CMOS Battery
6 Video card/chip
7 CPU
8 LCD

Source: https://community.dell.com/thread/2981