All Powerful M14X R1 Alienware M14x issue

[thisismyyear2008]

Hello to all!  So I have an M14x r1 that came to me stripped.  I grabbed a power supply and attempted to boot it.  So it beeps once with no POST.  I realize this means a mobo or BIOS issue.  So I attempted to recover it with the A4 BIOS from Dell and the laptop does not do anything with the 1Gb stick.  I formatted as FAT and FAT32 and just put the BIOS fd file on the stick but it didn't work.

 

Thoughts?  Maybe it's CPU or GPU related and not BIOS?

[thisismyyear2008]

Additionally I tried renaming the BIOS file as I found in another post but this didnt work either.  I also tried making the stick bootable and not bootable which didn't matter!

 

Appreciate any thoughts....