Howdy y'all! It's that time of year where I give away all the extra pepper seedlings I have grown. These peppers were grown from seeds that I purchased from the New Mexico Chile Pepper Institute, a non profit organization helping to bring more spice into all our lives. The seedlings vary from 4" to 8" in height and have several sets of true leaves.
They are free to a good home!
I'm trying to repair a Precision 7550 that is out of warranty and am at a loss for next steps.
The original user of the laptop said that they turned the laptop on, it displayed the Dell logo, emitted 5 or 6 very loud beeps, then displayed a QR code on the screen. They think the QR code said something about disk one. Unfortunately they did not take a picture of the QR code, and I have not been able to make it to that screen.
It appears to be stuck in an endless loop of restarting, with each restart loop shorter than the preceding one. When I received the laptop, I could hit the F12 key and make it to the bios very briefly before it restarted. Now it restarts within seconds of displaying the logo.
What I've tried so far
Can the BIOS be flashed if you're unable to access the One Time Boot Menu?
Edit: after failing to get the manual BIOS recovery initiated, the original QR code popped up! The error code was 2000-0151, which indicates a hard drive error. I removed that SSD, but am still stuck in the boot loop. Every few loops it will make it beyond the Dell logo to the Support Assist window. It's on that screen for a second before it restarts again.
