Alienware Aurora R4 Service Manual
So the little cheap silver plastic power button broke literally 2 days after warranty expired. Initially I wasn't too worried as I could still power up using the little black button underneath. Some how, and I honestly haven't a clue how since the system doesn't move and sits on a desk, but suddenly the little black button is gone. All you see when you peer into the hole are the two contacts.
I manged to fish out the black button, the copper connector disk and the rubber seating, but there's no way it's going back in. I tried for hours and hours.I called Tech support, all I wanted was a schematic for the MOBO so I can find the pins to boot my computer. I wont' get into a long story here because overall it's irrelevant. But I will say that after 20 mins with Tech #1, he sent me a PDF of the owners manual which doesn't have a schematic of the MOBO, then he suggested I look into getting a new chassis. A new chassis, are you kidding me? At the very outside I might (and that's a big might) need a new front I/O assembly.
At that point I asked for either and L2 or supervisor. I got a supervisor and asked the same question several different ways, we didn't get anywhere. They don't have that information.
I also discovered that the nearest place to get the system fixed is hours away.So anyone, if you can please help me, I desperately need to power up this system to get something off my main drive.MOBO Dell part # is C5D9P.
Alienware Aurora R4 Service Manual Pdf
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