Dell Understanding Laptop Charging Light Blinking and LED Indicators

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.

Battery Status Lights

If the computer is connected to an electrical outlet, the battery light operates as follows:

Alternately	An unauthenticated or unsupported non-Dell AC adapter is attached to your laptop.
blinking amber
light and white
light
Alternately	Temporary battery failure with AC adapter present.
blinking amber
light with steady
white light
Constantly	Fatal battery failure with AC adapter present.
blinking amber
light
Light off	Battery in full charge mode with AC adapter present.
White light on	Battery in charge mode with AC adapter present.

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