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New thrift sore pickup wont stop beeping at me while on
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I got this dell laptop for 10 dollars at a thrift store and it powers on but i beeps 5 times at me before reaping the beeps. I oped up the laptop to give it a light clean but to notice this model has the storage and ram embedded into he board. I took a gamble with this laptop, im thinking the cmos batters need replacing but im unsure. What would you advise? This is a dell inspiration 11 3000 series from 2010.
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Sounds like a dead BIOS battery. You can confirm it by turning the laptop off and pulling the main battery out. Put it back in, boot the laptop. If the clock has reset, the BIOS battery is dead.
Apart from that, I'd recommend installing AntiX Linux. It's exactly the right kind of OS to get something like that real fast.