Dell Vostro 5501 Service Manual page 84

• Computer is running on battery, and the battery has more than 5 percent charge.
• Computer is in sleep state, hibernation, or turned off.
The power and battery-status light blinks amber along with beep codes indicating failures.
For example, the power and battery-status 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 power and battery-status light patterns and associated problems.
Table 21. LED codes
Diagnostic light codes
1,1
1,2
1,3
1,4
1, 5
1, 6
1, 7
1, 8
1, 9
2,1
2,2
2,3
2,4
2,5
2,6
2,7
2,8
2,9
3,1
3,2
3,4
3,5
3,6
3,7
3,8
3,9
Camera status indicator: Indicates whether the camera is in use.
• Solid white — Camera is in use.
• Off — Camera is not in use.
Caps Lock status indicator: Indicates whether Caps Lock is enabled or disabled.
• Solid white — Caps Lock enabled.
• Off—Caps Lock disabled.
84 Troubleshooting
Problem description
TPM Detection Failure
Unrecoverable SPI Flash Failure
Short in hinge cable tripped OCP1
Short in hinge cable tripped OCP2
EC unable to program i-Fuse
Generic catch-all for ungraceful EC code flow errors
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CPU failure
Motherboard covers BIOS corruption or ROM error
No Memory/RAM detected
Memory/RAM Failure
Invalid memory installed
Motherboard/Chipset Error
LCD failure - SBIOS message
LCD failure - EC detection of power rail failure
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CMOS battery failure
PCI of Video card/chip failure
Recovery Image found but invalid
EC ran into power sequencing failure
Flash corruption detected by SBIOS
Timeout waiting on ME to reply to HECI message
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