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 power and battery-status light blinks amber along with beep codes indicating failures.
For example, the power and 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:
Table 1. LED codesLED light codes for component issues/failure in the product
Diagnostic light codes
Problem description
2,1
Processor failure
2,2
System board: BIOS or Read-Only Memory (ROM) failure
2,3
No memory or Random-Access Memory (RAM) detected
2,4
Memory or Random-Access Memory (RAM) failure
2,5
Invalid memory installed
2,6
System board or chipset error
2,7
Display failure
2,8
LCD power rail failure, you must replace the system board.
3,1
Coin-cell battery failure
3,2
PCI, video card/chip failure
3,3
Recovery image not found
3,4
Recovery image found, but invalid
3,5
Power rail failure
3,6
System BIOS Flash incomplete
3,7
Management Engine (ME) error
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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