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Instead of beep codes, errors are indicated by the bicolor Battery Charge/Status LED. A specific blink pattern is followed by flashing a pattern of flashes in amber, followed by white. The pattern then repeats.
The system will not shut down when displaying the Diagnostic Error Codes.
Diagnostic Error Codes will always supersede any other use of the LED.
Blinking Patterns | Problem description | Faults | |
---|---|---|---|
Amber | White | ||
2 | 1 | Faulty system board | Faulty system board |
2 | 2 | Faulty system board, power supply, unit (PSU), or cabling | Faulty system board, power supply, unit (PSU), or cabling |
2 | 3 | Faulty system board, CPU, or DIMMS | Faulty system board, power supply, unit (PSU), or DIMMS |
2 | 4 | Faulty coin cell battery | Faulty coin cell battery |
2 | 5 | BIOS Recovery | Auto-Recovery trigger, recovery image is not found or is invalid. |
2 | 7 | Memory | Memory SPD failure |
3 | 3 | Memory | No memory detected |
3 | 5 | Memory | Modules incompatible or invalid configuration |
3 | 6 | BIOS Recovery | On-demand trigger, recovery image is not found. |
3 | 7 | BIOS Recovery | On-demand trigger, recovery image is invalid. |