Battery status lights, Diagnostic beep codes – Dell Vostro 3560 (Early 2012) User Manual

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Turns on steadily or blinks to indicate battery charge status.

Turns on when wireless networking is enabled.

Battery Status Lights

If the computer is connected to an electrical outlet, the battery light operates as follows:

Alternately blinking amber light and white
light

An unauthenticated or unsupported non-Dell AC adapter is attached to
your laptop.

Alternately blinking amber light with steady
white light

Temporary battery failure with AC adapter present.

Constantly blinking amber light

Fatal battery failure with AC adapter present.

Light off

Battery in full charge mode with AC adapter present.

White light on

Battery in charge mode with AC adapter present.

Diagnostic Beep Codes

The following table shows the possible beep codes that may be emitted by the computer when your computer is unable
to complete a power on self test.

Table 7. Diagnostic Beep Codes

Beep

Description

Possible Cause/Troubleshooting

Steps

1

BIOS ROM checksum in progress of
failure.

System board failure, covers BIOS
corruption or ROM error

2

No RAM detected

If no memory is detected, you can
perform the following steps

reseat the memory if an

additional memory is available

install that memory if the

issue persists

issue with the memory

connector

3

Chipset Error (North and

South Bridge Chipset,

DMA/IMR/Timer Error)

Time-Of-Day Clock test failure

Gate A20 failure

Super I/O chip failure

Keyboard controller test

failure

System board failure

4

RAM Read/Write failure

If no memory is detected, you can
perform the following steps

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