Dell Inspiron 5567, 5567-1998 [105/108] Diagnostics

Diagnostics

Power and battery-status light/hard-drive activity light

Indicates the battery-charge status or the hard-drive activity.

NOTE: Press Fn+H to toggle this light between power and battery-status

light and hard-drive activity light.

Hard-drive activity light

Turns on when the computer reads from or writes to the hard drive.

Power and 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 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 the different power and battery-status light

patterns and the problems that each light pattern indicate.

Light pattern Problem description

2,1 CPU failure

2,2 System board: BIOS and ROM failure

2,3 No memory or RAM detected

2,4 Memory or RAM failure

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