LED Error Codes

Diagnostic LED codes are communicated via the Power Button LED. The Power Button LED blinks the corresponding LED codes for the corresponding fault condition. Example: For No Memory detected (LED code 2) , The Power Button LED blinks two times followed by a pause, blinks two times, pause, etc. This pattern continues until the system is powered off.

Code

Cause and Troubleshooting Steps

1

System board: BIOS ROM failure

 

System board failure, covers BIOS corruption or ROM error

2

Memory

 

No memory/RAM detected

3

Chipset Error (North and South Bridge Chipset, DMA/IMR/ Timer Error) , Time-Of-Day Clock test

 

failure , Gate A20 failure , Super I/O chip failure , Keyboard controller test failure

 

System board failure

4

RAM Read/Write failure

 

Memory failure

5

Real-time clock power fail

 

CMOS battery failure

6

Video BIOS test failure

 

Video card failure

7

CPU - cache test failure

 

Processor failure

8

Display

 

Display failure

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Dell P28F004 owner manual LED Error Codes, No memory/RAM detected