Dell P32G owner manual Battery Status Lights, Diagnostic Beep Codes, Light Your laptop

Turns on steadily or blinks to indicate battery charge status.

Turns on when wireless networking is enabled.

Battery Status Lights

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

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

Diagnostic Beep Codes

The following table shows the possible beep codes that may be emitted by the computer when your computer is unable to complete a power on self test.

Table 7. Diagnostic Beep Codes

Beep	Description		Possible Cause/Troubleshooting
			Steps
1	BIOS ROM checksum in progress of		System board failure, covers BIOS
	failure.		corruption or ROM error
2	No RAM detected		If no memory is detected, you can
			perform the following steps
			• reseat the memory if an
			additional memory is available
			• install that memory if the
			issue persists
			• issue with the memory
			connector
3	• Chipset Error (North and		System board failure
		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
4	RAM Read/Write failure		If no memory is detected, you can
			perform the following steps

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