Flea Power Release - Dell Inspiron 15 5000 Service Manual

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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.

NOTE:

Hard-drive activity light is supported only on computers shipped with 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

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Power adapter is connected and the battery is fully charged.

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Computer is running on battery and the battery has more than 5 percent charge.

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Computer is in sleep state, hibernation, or turned off

NOTE:

Hard-drive activity light is supported only on computers shipped with hard drive.

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 light patterns and describes what they indicate.

Table 14. Diagnostics

Light pattern

2,1

2,2

2,3

2,4

2,5

2,6

2,7

3,1

3,2

3,3

3,4

Camera status light: Indicates whether the camera is in use.

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Solid white — Camera is in use.

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Off — Camera is not in use.

Caps Lock status light: Indicates whether Caps Lock is enabled or disabled.

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Solid white — Caps Lock enabled.

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Off — Caps Lock disabled.