Troubleshooting Your Computer; Device Status Lights - Dell Latitude E6530 Owner's Manual

Troubleshooting Your Computer

You can troubleshoot your computer using indicators like Diagnostic Lights, Beep Codes, and Error Messages during the
operation of the computer.

Device Status Lights

Table 13. Device Status Lights
Turns on when you turn on the computer and blinks when the computer is in a power management mode.
Turns on when the computer reads or writes data.
Turns on steadily or blinks to indicate battery charge status.
Turns on when wireless networking is enabled.
The device status LEDs are usually located either on the top or left side of the keyboard. They are used to display the
storage, battery and wireless devices connectivity and activity. Apart from that they can be useful as a diagnostic tool
when there's a possible failure to the system.
The following table lists how to read the LED codes when possible errors occur.
Table 14. LED Lights
Storage LED Power LED
Blinking Solid
Solid Blinking
Blinking Blinking
Blinking Blinking
Blinking Blinking
Blinking Off
Solid Blinking
Blinking Solid
Off Blinking
Off Blinking
Wireless LED Fault Description
Solid A possible processor failure has occurred.
Solid The memory modules are detected but has encountered an
error.
Blinking A system board failure has occurred.
Solid A possible graphics card/video failure has occurred.
Off System failed on hard drive initialization OR System failed in
Option ROM initialization.
Blinking The USB controller encountered a problem during
initialization.
Blinking No memory modules are installed/detected.
Blinking The display encountered a problem during initialization.
Blinking The modem is preventing the system from completing POST
Off Memory failed to initialize or memory is unsupported.
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