Lights

Component

Description

 

 

 

(1)

Power lights (2)*

On: The computer is on.

 

 

Blinking: The computer is in the Sleep state.

 

 

Off: The computer is off or in Hibernation.

 

 

 

(2)

Battery light

On: A battery is charging.

 

 

Blinking: A battery that is the only available power source has

 

 

reached a low battery level or a critical battery level.

 

 

Off: If the computer is plugged into an external power source,

 

 

the light is turned off when all batteries in the computer are

 

 

fully charged. If the computer is not plugged into an external

 

 

power source, the light stays off until the battery reaches a

 

 

low battery level.

 

 

 

(3)

Drive light

Blinking: The hard drive or optical drive is being accessed.

 

 

On: HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection (select models

 

 

only) has temporarily parked the internal hard drive.

 

 

 

(4)

Caps lock light

On: Caps lock is on.

 

 

 

(5)

Wireless light

Blue: An integrated wireless device, such as a wireless local

 

 

area network (WLAN) device and/or a Bluetooth® device, is

 

 

on.

 

 

Amber: All wireless devices are off.

 

 

 

(6)

Volume mute light (select models only)

White: Computer sound is turned on.

 

 

Amber: Computer sound is turned off.

 

 

 

(7)

Volume down light (select models only)

On: The volume scroll zone is being used to decrease speaker

 

 

volume.

 

 

 

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