Dell M4800 owner manual Device Status Lights, Storage LED Power LED Wireless LED Fault Description

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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 14. 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 15. LED Lights

Storage LED	Power LED	Wireless LED	Fault Description
Blinking	Solid	Solid	A possible processor failure has occurred.
Solid	Blinking	Solid	The memory modules are detected but has encountered an
			error.
Blinking	Blinking	Blinking	A system board failure has occurred.
Blinking	Blinking	Solid	A possible graphics card/video failure has occurred.
Blinking	Blinking	Off	System failed on hard drive initialization OR System failed in
			Option ROM initialization.
Blinking	Off	Blinking	The USB controller encountered a problem during
			initialization.
Solid	Blinking	Blinking	No memory modules are installed/detected.
Blinking	Solid	Blinking	The display encountered a problem during initialization.
Off	Blinking	Blinking	The modem is preventing the system from completing POST.
Off	Blinking	Off	Memory failed to initialize or memory is unsupported.

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