Table 3. Power LED summary
Amber LED state White LED state System state Notes
O O S4, S5
• Hibernate or Suspend to Disk
(S4)
• Power is o (S5)
O Blinking S1, S3
System is in a low power state,
either S1 or S3. This does not
indicate a fault condition.
Previous State Previous State S3, no PWRGD_PS This entry provides for the
possibility of a delay from
SLP_S3# active to PWRGD_PS
inactive.
Blinking O S0, no PWRGD_PS
Boot Failure - The computer is
receiving electrical power, and
power supplied by the power
supply is normal. A device might
be malfunctioning or incorrectly
installed. Refer to the table
below for Amber Blinking Pattern
diagnostics suggestion and
possible failures.
Steady O S0, no PWRGD_PS, Code fetch
= 0
Boot Failure - This is a system
fault error condition, including
the power supply. Only the
+5VSB rail on the power supply
is working correctly.
O Steady S0, no PWRGD_PS, Code fetch
= 1
This indicates that the host BIOS
has started to execute and the
LED register is now writable.
Table 4. Amber LED blinking failures
Amber LED state White LED state System state Notes
2 1 Bad MBD Bad MBD - Rows A, G, H, and J
from table 12.4 of SIO Spec -
Pre-Post indicators [40]
2 2 Bad MB, PSU or cabling Bad MBD, PSU or PSU cabling -
Rows B, C and D of table 12.4
SIO spec [40]
2 3 Bad MBD, DIMMS, or CPU Bad MBD, DIMMS or CPU -
Rows F and K from table 12.4 of
SIO spec [40]
2 4 Bad coin cell Bad coin cell - Row M of table
12.4 in SIO spec [40]
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