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Edit: the pre-POST bypass is Escape and power, not Home. Still getting nothing more than green flashing and loud fan.

I tried removing the watch-style battery for a minute and replacing it. Result: total death. Now I can't get it to turn on with the Home-Power bypassing POST trick. No more green light flashing.

One more thing, I've had some indication (from a few places, but very vague) that the Win10 Dell BIOS utility may possibly be buggy. Not sure if this machine was originally Win8, they gave it to me at work. I did notice one of the BIOS updates was to make the update procedure better!

I did the same dumb thing. It stalled at 60% and was running like crazy. Understandable mistake, right? (Or was it really a fail?) Dell said to send it in, just barely under warranty still. Phone call took about two hours. I tried the POST bypass (for the AMD chipped 5555 it is Home End not...