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Power button LED

The power button LED is located on the front panel of your system.

Figure 1. Power button LED
This image shows power button LED.
Table 1. Power button LED This table describes the power button LED codes. Item 1 is off, indicates the system is not operating, regardless of power supply available. Item 2 is on, indicates system is operating, one or more of the non-standby power supplies are active. Item 3 is slowly blinking, indicates system is performing powering on and iDRAC is still booting. For more information about error messages, see the Dell Event and Error Messages Reference Guide at Dell.com/openmanagemanuals > OpenManage software.
Power button LED indicator code Condition
Off System is not operating, regardless of power supply available.
On System is operating, one or more of the non-standby power supply units are active.
Slowly blinking System is performing powering on sequence and iDRAC is still booting.
NOTE: When MX750c is installed in MX7000, the power button LED indicator display the status as off for one minute while the sled is initialized, even if the sled is configured to power on automatically (for example, with an AC power recovery policy of, On or Last). After one minute, if the sled is configured to power on automatically, the power button LED will start slowly blinking to indicate the system is performing the powering on sequence.

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