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 [strike]Home[/strike] End not Ctrl-Esc before power), but no luck. See
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/en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3518/t/20002158 Now I'm wondering now if removing the inside watch battery would do it and save me 15 days of waiting. I'd try it right now but the laptop is not here. Later today.
SSD side note, if you're interested:
I had already removed the cover where the CMOS/BIOS battery is to replace the 1TB HDD with an $89 Samsung 256MB SSD. Well worth...