Front Panel System Status LED Indicators
Front Panel System Status LED Indicators
The front panel contains five LEDs, which are viewable with or without the front bezel to display the system’s operating state. The LEDs provide a status for the following system states:
•Power/Sleep
•System State
•Disk Activity
•NIC1 Activity
•NIC2 Activity
Table
LED | Color | State | Description |
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Power/Sleep | Green | ON | Legacy Power On / ACPI S0 state |
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| Blink | Sleep / ACPI S1 state |
| Off | OFF | Power Off / ACPI S4 or S5 state |
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System Status on | Green | ON | Running. BIOS Initialization complete, boot |
standby power |
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| started / normal operation |
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| Blink | Degraded condition |
| Amber | ON | Critical or |
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| Blink | |
| Off | OFF | POST / System Stop |
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Fixed Disk Activity | Green | Random blink | Hard disk activity. This is an ‘OR’ of the activity |
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| for the onboard SCSI and IDE controllers. |
| Amber | ON | Hard disk fault. Cleared when powered off |
| Off | OFF | No hard disk activity nor fault |
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NIC1 / NIC2 Activity | Green | On | Link |
Identify | Green | Blink | Network Activity |
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Note: BIOS controls Power/Sleep LED.