The blinking patterns will consist of 2 sets of numbers being represented by (First Group:Amber blinks, Second Group:White blinks)
First Group ; The LED blinks 1 to 9 times followed by a brief pause with LED off at the interval of 1.5 seconds. (This is in Amber color)
Second Group : The LED blinks 1 to 9 times, that would be then followed by a longer pause before the next cycle starts again at the interval of 1.5 seconds. (This is in White color)
Example: No Memory detected (2,3), Battery LED blinks two times of amber color followed by a pause, and then blinks three times of white color. The Battery LED will pause for 3 seconds before the next cycle repeat itself again.
The following table depicts the amber and white blinking patterns with possible troubleshooting resolution:
Blinking Pattern
Problem Description
Suggested Resolution
2,1
CPU
CPU failure
2,2
Motherboard:BIOS ROM
Motherboard, covers BIOS corruption or ROM error
2,3
Memory
No memory/RAM detected
2,4
Memory
Memory/RAM failure
2,5
Memory
Invalid memory installed
2,6
Motherboard:Chipset
Motherboard / Chipset error
2,7
LCD
LCD failure
3,1
RTC Power Failure
CMOS battery failure
3,2
PCI/Video
PCI or video card/chip failure
3,3
BIOS Recovery 1
Recovery image not found
3,4
BIOS Recovery 2
Recovery image found but invaild
Battery Charge Indicator
A battery/charge LED is co-located with the Power button.
A second charge LED is located in the base near the DC-in to indicate base only charging.
Both LEDs are visible when the lid is closed in clamshell mode.
Solid white — The battery is charging.
Off — The battery is adequately charged (or the computer is turned off).
Solid amber — The battery charge is critically low.
It looks like these troubleshooting codes are for a laptop. Do the same blink codes apply to the tablets also? The reason I ask is because the battery charge indicators are not the same.
ejn63
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March 7th, 2017 10:00
Just about any of these blink codes OTHER than a battery-related one means a bad mainboard.
DELL-Jesse L
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March 8th, 2017 09:00
SCOTTKSHI,
To add to what "ejn63" posted.
NOTE:
The blinking patterns will consist of 2 sets of numbers being represented by (First Group:Amber blinks, Second Group:White blinks)
First Group ; The LED blinks 1 to 9 times followed by a brief pause with LED off at the interval of 1.5 seconds.
(This is in Amber color)
Second Group : The LED blinks 1 to 9 times, that would be then followed by a longer pause before the next cycle starts again at the interval of 1.5 seconds.
(This is in White color)
Example: No Memory detected (2,3), Battery LED blinks two times of amber color followed by a pause, and then blinks three times of white color. The Battery LED will pause for 3 seconds before the next cycle repeat itself again.
The following table depicts the amber and white blinking patterns with possible troubleshooting resolution:
Battery Charge Indicator
A battery/charge LED is co-located with the Power button.
A second charge LED is located in the base near the DC-in to indicate base only charging.
Both LEDs are visible when the lid is closed in clamshell mode.
Solid white — The battery is charging.
Off — The battery is adequately charged (or the computer is turned off).
Solid amber — The battery charge is critically low.
scottkshi
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March 12th, 2017 12:00
It looks like these troubleshooting codes are for a laptop. Do the same blink codes apply to the tablets also? The reason I ask is because the battery charge indicators are not the same.