New here so this is my first post so hello everyone! Been lurking for about a year now but never joined until tonight. The reason I joined you ask? This dreaded 'blinking amber power button of death' that has cursed more than just a few systems. It honestly reminds me of the red ring of death for Xbox. Well my system was infected later this evening and I have done everything recommended in these forums in an attempt to revive it besides calling support because today is Sunday. Will call first thing in the morning. This issue seems very prevalent among these systems after all the research I've done. Everything's fine and then all of the sudden your computer just shuts down and there's no remedy (correct me if I'm wrong) and that really annoying when your life and finances are dependent upon it. Just thought I should make this post to, I dunno, make the issue known? Could this be a defect in our systems? Am I mad I can't use my computer right now? Yes.

What model computer and how old is it?

Dell XPS 8910 and I bought it used last year so I'm not completely sure of the manufacture date; however I do know its in the 2015-present model range (I believe 2017). So I found out that my power button is blinking 4 times and then pausing. That corresponds to a 'memory or RAM failure'. I have the original RAM (2 x 4GB) plus an additional pair of G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series (2 x 8GB) for a total of 24GB RAM. The G.SKILL RAM chips are in DIMM 1 and DIMM 3, and the original RAM chips are in the DIMM 2 and DIMM 4 slots. Up until yesterday it has worked absolutely flawlessly and it was great having so much RAM at my disposal. After figuring out about the RAM error I decided to play with the chips and switch around the slots they are in. Nothing worked while using all 4 chips. Finally I got it to boot when I only had RAM chips in the DIMM 1 and DIMM 3 slots leaving 2 & 4 open. It doesn't matter if it's the G.SKILL or original RAM in slots 1 & 3, but it seems like those are the only two that are recognized. So now my computer works perfect but I have less RAM and that's annoying. Does anyone know why the motherboard will not recognize anything in the DIMM 2 & 4 slots, and why it won't even boot if I put anything in them? Is this indicative of needing a new motherboard if I want to utilize all 4 RAM slots??

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