System Diagnostic Lights - Dell Inspiron 5301 Service Manual

a. OFF: No fault detected with the system board
b. AMBER: Indicates a problem with the system board

System diagnostic lights

Battery-status light
Indicates the power and battery-charge status.
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 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
1,5
1,6
2,1
2,2
2,3
2,4
2,5
2,6
2,7
2,8
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.
68 Troubleshooting
Problem description
TPM detection failure
Unrecoverable SPI flash failure
i-Fuse failure
EC internal failure
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
LCD power rail 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