Diagnostics
The Cable Modem has five status LEDs for diagnostics. You can monitor the LEDs during installation and during normal operations.
Table 1 shows Cable Modem status LEDs and identifies what each LED light means. This table will help you to diagnose problems.
| Function | Color | Definition |
| Cable | Green | - dark for no downstream RF carrier present or power |
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| off |
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| - flashing slowly*1 for downstream RF carrier present |
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| and ranging in progress |
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| - flashing fast*2 for registration in progress |
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| - solid for the Cable Modem registered and ready to |
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| transfer data |
| PC | Green | - dark for no carrier to/from PC present or power off |
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| - solid for carrier to/from PC present |
| Data | Green | - dark for no user data going through the Cable Modem |
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| or power off |
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| - flashing for user data going through the Cable Modem |
| Test | Amber | - dark for initial |
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| power off |
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| - flashing for initial |
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| progress or software down loading of the Cable |
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| Modem in progress |
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| - solid for |
| Power | Green | - dark for power off |
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| - solid for power on |
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| Table 1 Status LEDs |
＊1 flashing slowly : flashing every 2 seconds (approximately) | |||
＊2 flashing fast | : flashing every 1 second (approximately) | ||
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