System Diagnostic Lights - Dell G5 5590 Service Manual

Identifier
Status

System diagnostic lights

Battery-status light/hard-drive activity light
Indicates the battery-charge status or the hard-drive activity.
Solid white — Power adapter is connected and the battery has more than 5 percent charge.
Amber — Computer is running on battery and the battery has less than 5 percent charge.
Off
• Power adapter is connected and the battery is fully charged.
• Computer is running on battery and the battery has more than 5 percent charge.
• Computer is in sleep state, hibernation, or turned off.
The battery-status light/hard-drive activity light blinks amber along with beep codes indicating failures.
For example, the battery-status light/hard-drive activity light blinks amber two times followed by a pause, and then blinks white three times
followed by a pause. This 2,3 pattern continues until the computer is turned off indicating no memory or RAM is detected.
The following table shows different battery-status light/hard-drive activity light patterns and associated problems.
Table 14. LED codes
Diagnostic light codes
2,1
2,2
2,3
2,4
2,5
2,6
2,7
3,1
3,2
3,3
3,4
3,5
3,6
3,7
Camera status light: Indicates whether the camera is in use.
• Solid white — Camera is in use.
• Off — Camera is not in use.
GUID-B81A5F10-763B-4499-9B33-9990F7E9687A
Released
Problem description
Processor failure
System board: BIOS or ROM (Read-Only Memory) failure
No memory or RAM (Random-Access Memory) detected
Memory or RAM (Random-Access Memory) failure
Invalid memory installed
System-board or chipset error
Display failure
Coin-cell battery failure
PCI, video card/chip failure
Recovery image not found
Recovery image found but invalid
Power-rail failure
System BIOS Flash incomplete
Management Engine (ME) error
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