Dell G15 5530 Owner's Manual
System-diagnostic lights
Battery-status light
Indicates the power and battery-charge status.
Solid white — Power adapter is connected and the battery has more than 5 percent charge.
Amber — Computer is running on battery and the battery has less than 5 percent charge.
Off
- Power adapter is connected, and the battery is fully charged.
- Computer is running on battery, and the battery has more than 5 percent charge.
- Computer is in sleep state, hibernation, or turned off.
The battery-status light blinks amber along with beep codes indicating failures.
For example, the battery-status light blinks amber two times followed by a pause, and then blinks white three times followed by a pause. This 2,3 pattern continues until the computer is turned off indicating no memory or RAM is detected.
The following table shows different power and battery-status light patterns and associated problems.
| Blinking pattern | Problem description | |
|---|---|---|
| Amber | White | |
| 1 | 1 | TPM detection failure |
| 1 | 2 | Unrecoverable SPI Flash Failure |
| 1 | 3 | Short in hinge cable tripped OCP1 |
| 1 | 4 | Short in hinge cable tripped OCP2 |
| 1 | 5 | EC unable to program i-Fuse |
| 1 | 6 | Generic catch-all for ungraceful EC code flow errors |
| 1 | 7 |
Non-RPMC Flash on Boot Guard fused system |
| 2 | 1 | CPU failure |
| 2 | 2 | System board failure (included BIOS corruption or ROM error) |
| 2 | 3 | No memory/RAM detected |
| 2 | 4 | Memory/RAM failure |
| 2 | 5 | Invalid memory installed |
| 2 | 6 | System board/Chipset Error |
| 2 | 7 | LCD failure (SBIOS message) |
| 2 | 8 | LCD failure (EC detection of power rail failure) |
| 3 | 1 | CMOS battery failure |
| 3 | 2 | PCI or Video card/chip failure |
| 3 | 3 | BIOS recovery image not found |
| 3 | 4 | BIOS recovery image found but invalid |
| 3 | 5 | Power rail failure |
| 3 | 6 | Flash corruption detected by SBIOS. |
| 3 | 7 | Timeout waiting on ME to reply to HECI message. |
NOTE:Blinking 3-3-3 LEDs on Lock LED (Caps-Lock or Nums-Lock), Power button LED (without Fingerprint reader), and Diagnostic LED indicates failure to provide input during LCD panel test on Dell SupportAssist Pre-boot System Performance Check diagnostics.
Camera status light: Indicates whether the camera is in use.
- Solid white — Camera is in use.
- Off — Camera is not in use.
Caps Lock status light: Indicates whether Caps Lock is enabled or disabled.
- Solid white — Caps Lock enabled.
- Off — Caps Lock disabled.
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