Battery Status Lights; Diagnostic Beep Codes - Dell Vostro 3360 Owner's Manual

Turns on steadily or blinks to indicate battery charge status.
Turns on when wireless networking is enabled.

Battery Status Lights

If the computer is connected to an electrical outlet, the battery light operates as follows:
Alternately blinking amber light and white
light
Alternately blinking amber light with steady
white light
Constantly blinking amber light
Light off
White light on

Diagnostic Beep Codes

The following table shows the possible beep codes that may be emitted by the computer when your computer is unable
to complete a power on self test.
Table 7. Diagnostic Beep Codes
Beep
1
2
3
4
46
An unauthenticated or unsupported non-Dell AC adapter is attached to
your laptop.
Temporary battery failure with AC adapter present.
Fatal battery failure with AC adapter present.
Battery in full charge mode with AC adapter present.
Battery in charge mode with AC adapter present.
Description
BIOS ROM checksum in progress of
failure.
No RAM detected
• Chipset Error (North and
South Bridge Chipset,
DMA/IMR/Timer Error)
• Time-Of-Day Clock test failure
• Gate A20 failure
• Super I/O chip failure
• Keyboard controller test
failure
RAM Read/Write failure
Possible Cause/Troubleshooting
Steps
System board failure, covers BIOS
corruption or ROM error
If no memory is detected, you can
perform the following steps
• reseat the memory if an
additional memory is available
• install that memory if the
issue persists
• issue with the memory
connector
System board failure
If no memory is detected, you can
perform the following steps