LFC#51 - Dell Orange Light Diagnostics
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2024
- A diagnostics session on a Dell Vostro 220 throwing an Orange light on startup. Spoilers below...
Initially thought it was going to be the PSU, but a BIOS reset (remove RTC battery) was the cure. Sadly I wasn't able to resolve the cause of the orange light, but it'll be put through several on/off/warm up/cool down cycles to make sure it's really fixed.
If the BIOS reset hadn't worked, my next move would've been to remove the CPU and hunt down a spare - with the dusty HSF, I suspected a dead CPU.
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Five years after your video still helping people like me. Thank you so much friend. Stay safe.
I did the battery drain and still had problems. Once I reseated the memory everything was good to go. Great vid. Thanks.
sometimes it's either the memory or the cmos battery. 😁👍
glad I watched all the way thru as it was the little rtc battery on my Inspiron 560 as well. Took it out, waited a few minutes, plugged it back in and everything worked! Never, ever would have known if I hadn't of found this video, thanks!
I was about to replace my XPS 435MT thinking that the motherboard had died when I came across this video. Thanks!
This helped me today. I reset the bios...and never thought to take it out. Just FYI when a fan is that dirty and I feel it has heated up quite a bit...I re-paste the CPU. This might have been the culprit to trigger the BIOS battery. Just a check. ok Cheers!
Ive had issues with my power supply ever since i got my used computer. I would have to disconnect the 24-pin to the motherboard and plug it in and it would work. Today that didnt work. So i took off the ram and plugged them back in and it booted up. Thanks mate!
YOOOO THANK YOU MAN, I had to do some things but when I removed the battery for a few minutes on the mother board that fixed it! Thank you you saved me from a trip to a repair shop you have certainly earned a new sub
When I was lacking an air compressor... I used a LEAF BLOWER! It worked beautifully.
Great for modern parts but risky for Chinese aliexpress parts without good ESD protection
You had leaves in the computer?
Thank you so much for this video!! My computer isn't on warranty and it started flashing amber and wouldn't boot. So I cleaned inside the desktop, plugged stuff out and put them back in, changed the CMOS battery (I think it's called that) literally nothing I did worked. But from watching this video, I took those long rectangle things that's in the videos thumbnail and wiped them with a cloth and put em back in. Now i now can turn on my computer and now back up my stuff incase my computer decides to bail on me again. Thank you so much you're a life saver!!!!!
I already had a deal with Dell for them to pick up my computer, fix it and send it back (permission to wipe the hard disk requested!). Then I watched your video. I'm afraid I was lazy and skipped the new power supply option in favor of the easy stuff first, on my son's suggestion. Popped the battery, replaced it, good to go. So, you know, nice job.
I was wondering, what if that hadn't done it? What would you have done next? Then I noticed in your comments that you're working on a general diagnostics video. That'll probably cover what comes next. I've subscribed to your channel so I can catch that and you're other gold nuggets. Keep up the good work!
thank you for the awesome lecture you saved my computer! cheers!- tim from st.paul, minnesota usa
I put a used CR2032 battery in it because it said Low Battery. Don't do that !! It had 1.8 VDC in it which wasn't enough. A New CR2032 Fixed the problem. Thank You.
Thank you so much! Mine was Flashing Amber, so I replaced the PSU, then it was Solid Amber and power cycling, I removed the GFX card and it works 100% - I plan to upgrade to a high Watt in a PSU so I can continue using the GFX Card. Thanks!
Thanks for the info, this video really helped me out!! ☺
Worked for me.Removed CMOS battery,rebooted.away she went(white light).Shut down and replaced battery with new one ,hooked everything back up,booted up and away it went.
Just fixed my PC, watching your video. Thanks
We have a set of the Dell Vostro 220s - One week after our warranty went out one of the computers amber light lit up. Since Feb 2010... that computer has been sitting. When my operating computer has trouble, we've always been able to use it for parts (power supply) and test when we have problems.
My power supply went out again, just received the new supply - replace it and thought while I have it open, why not go ahead and see what I can find on the net. Found your video... and guess what? I remove the RTC battery... and it fixed it.! Wow... what are the chances of that happening? Only 2% of the hard drive is used... only bad thing, it has Windows XP OS.
I do have a new 7 Professional... just do not have the wherewithal to upgrade. Thanks for you video.!
You can also try to use a fresh cmos battery as well. Might as well switch it out for a new one if you get one of these systems from somebody that has had one laying around that they just gave to you. Someone gave me two old dell inspiron 546 computers and this fix worked
my ibuypower computer has a orange light on top and I love this video because when I pushed the little battery back in I turned my computer back in and it worked I think what happened the little battery got lose and just messed with the booting process love this video keep it up got on sub from me
It helped alot .....jst removed the battery and wala its runing
Been there, done that. Now when I get a used computer, I replace the battery right off the bat. I use a sharpie to write the date on the battery so I have an idea when it needs replacing.
My "new" Dell Inspiron 530 I just got has a solid amber light on the power button. Surprisingly when I pressed the amber button it went blue and it DID POST a couple times and I checked out the BIOS. I put a solid state drive in it and powered it on but it won't POST now. I disconnected the SSD but it still won't POST. It now still has the solid amber light but when I press the power button it goes blue like before but it will not beep. The screen doesn't power on now either. I press the power button again and it turns off. I don't have to hold it in to turn it off. I might have to get a new Power Suppy Unit. I DID replace the CMOS battery as I was told the old one was bad and the guy I bought it from replaced it with another old battery and he wasn't sure about it. So I put in a new one. But my power button isn't flashing orange which I think means its the CMOS. It's light is solid amber. So solid orange means a power supply problem, I've read.
After watching your video I'm going to try unplugging the same things like you did. Making sure I know where everything goes. But resetting the BIOS might be the answer as the guy I was talking to said when he took the power out the BIOS was resetting and then he put in a new battery. Plus my Inspiron 530 supposedly will not run with 8 GB's of RAM without the newest 1.0.18 BIOS and the setup screen said it was running BIOS 1.0.15 which can't run 8 GB's. Yet this computer came from a set of office computers running this way I think. Will the BIOS revert to the earlier 1.0.15 when no power is to the motherboard? But it DID POST a couple times though with 1.0.15. Maybe, I'll try plugging my 750 watt power supply from my XPS 8300 into the Inspiron's motherboard like you plugged that PSU into your motherboard.
I will never understand why people need music in video clips .
Thanks I was trying to retrieve data of my parents old dell and the last step worked
Thank you , I encountered the same problem recently
I just got an old computer Dell optiplex 755 yellow light was blinking and as I was watching a video I definitely thought it was a power supply then he threw the battery out and I did the same thing and it worked any advisory Booth LOL thank you for saving the day
Thank you sir
You're the best 2018
Classic case of overheating caused by dust, bios then prevents starting until reset, I've seen this a few times before.
I saw this the other day with some Dell computers, always try the easy fix first. You can remove the battery or there's jumper next to it just remove it wait 5 sec and replace to reset the Bios. Anyway I did all the same things you did too.
if you're still troubleshooting and trying to get it to POST, it's advisable to take the add-on video card out of the picture and just connect your monitor to the onboard VGA out
Back again, same problem, hope this works like last time
Greetings from Tasmania. Thank you for a very clear and informative video. You gave me the confidence to tackle the same problem on a Dell Studio XPS 7100 AMD 64 6 core. I found the music distracting rather than soothing; a lower volume would help. Thanks, Phil
agreed, the background music is totally unnecessary
Thank you keep up the good work
Wanted to comment thank you for your walkthrough. Looks like the problem I was having was the same exact problems you were experiencing and the same resolution in which you found. Reseating the RAM and removing the CMOS battery seems to have fixed the problem. Still do not know what caused it.
Hi I have an Dell Studio XPS and I put some upraded parts in it to be able to game. Worked like a charm for a month then all of a sudden when I turn it on it just gives me an orange light and then 4 beeps over and over again.
I have a vostro 220 with the orange light. No forums or anything could help. I knew it wasn't the PSU. So I built a new computer from spare parts and the vostro went to the way side. I started wondering about it again and came across this video. I did the same thing as this video shows and my vostro is back running again.
My optiplex 3010 started after doing just the RAM reset alone... tnx!!
Those Dells are very particular. You can put one in the closet for 6 months and it will do that. Pull out the cmos battery and then replace and there you go. Or even unplugging everything from the power and bleeding the capacitors by holding down the power button. Plug everything back in and Bob's your uncle. Very strange.
hey there ...i hav a problem with my laptop when its plugged in it shows that it is charging but the power button goes purple and then a constant orange and it wont boot
I know im late but ,Its not charged thats y get a new charger and wallah
got a orange light on motherboard but it still turns on and works idk whats up
ikr same
When you removed the ram and then reset them in the board the bios needed to reset to successfully populate them and register them. Hopefully when you cleaned the heat sink you removed the ram again and cleaned the board connections or this problem will return. another board that has this problem is the gigabit boards.usually starting with ram being corrupt or damaged.
I'm hopeful you will get this message. I enjoyed your process for hunting down the issue with the Dell 220 and wondered if something similar could be the issue with my Dell / Alienware Aurora desktop. At first it was power cycling and I removed and replaced all cables and hardware. Now it no longer power cycles, just appears to run but doesn't display or post beep. I've tried another video card also and different HDDs
@@Adamant_IT I got it diagnosed to be the Mobo. Now I have to find the time to pull the bad one and install another, plus dump roughly $250 on the replacement. Yay!
I watched 44 seconds of this video before figuring out what happened to my pc
Hi, Optiplex 745 over here. What about an orange blinking light?
Four orange blinkings lights at a dell 8930 after changing thermal paste at processor n video card, what could be, help pls
Same boat.... Changed out thermal paste on 2 Optiplex and neither will boot now🤦🏽♂️
Muy bueno! Me ayudó muchísimo, gracias.
YOU SHOULD TEST THE BATTERY WITH A METER TO SEE IF ITS A 3.3V I FIX ALOT OF COMPUTER WITH DEAD BATTERYS
Yep, bullseye ;) Battery should also be tested under load - always an important and frequently unspoken detail.
So if it's below that does it mean should be replaced?
@@deogratiusssemanda7256 Usually if it's under 2.9V the BIOS starts forgetting its settings. If it's your home computer, just have a new battery ready in a drawer and wait for your current one to die or just change it if you're computer is acting strange while booting up. If it's a customer's computer and it has no issues even with 2.75V, ask them if they want it changed, cause they'll be back for it soon anyway ;)
@@em0_tion Thanks bro
@@deogratiusssemanda7256 2
5. V lower then thatvit should be replace
Thank you, i am from brazil and that video helped me a lot! now it is working!!!
I have a dell xps 8700 and it went amber on me I tried what was shown on this video but nothing worked. I hope you still check on this after 2 years. Help?!
thanks a lot from canada!😉
So glad you aren't playing this music in your new videos.
lol you drunk rewatching some of his popular videos as well?
Chances are the thermal paste would have been hard also
I have an orange light on the back of my desktop but not on the power button and shows on the motherboard. Is that a problem? Apparently, I was applying some thermal paste on CPU cause I didn't use thermal paste a long time ago and when I turned on I saw this and just wondering what is happening.
Yo using this, updating when I get through all or fix it. Thanks for these solutions
This worked but when I reboot the computer for the second time it comes back again
THANKS A LOT...
Yeah, for Dell it is often the seating if the RAM. (Even if it hasn’t been touched. Weird.)
I had 3 orange 5 white and it was due to the usb board being unplugged (laptop)
Any idea why my Dell precision T5500 Amber light is on and the error code 234 is flashing I would appreciate any help you could give me with it ,,Thank you and keep up the good work
thank u so much sir. this really helped me.
This as happened to me after changing cpu to a w3680 and now my pc does this I changed back to original cpu and still doing it :(
Hi, I have a Vostro 220, when I went to turn on my PC, the button becomes orange and continually beeps in short bursts of three, it also doesn't boot and the screen is always blank. If you could help that would be great, thanks.
Adamant IT I also have a orange light on my CPU, a couple days ago the power for for the whole house was gone and then it came back sudden, could that be the problem why
I’m having that problem now
Any solutions
Having the same problem with my desktop - I think I tried this but will try it again - starts up but no image on the screen - hook the monitor up to laptop I have an image - see what happens again
Does anybody else Dell PC ethernet light constantly flash even when the computer has been turned off? Mine does, I always thought it meant activity over the internet but how is that so when the comp has been shut. down. The green light at the back is also on. It's not in hibernating mode as it's a complete shut down.
Hey, I did the CMOS reset on my computer but when putting my graphics card it doesn't display anything on my monitor
I. was wondering if you could help.
please can you make a video showing what the name of each hardware is? II have a dell optiplex 745
I've got a weird problem, my Inspiron 620 won't power on with Dell PSU's, but will power on with an old PSU out of an HP Pentium 4 system, if I plug the dell PSU's into the HP system they work fine, any idea what could be the problem?
Thanks for the quick reply, I've tried every suggestion on the forums and it still doesn't work, it's my mates PC so I'll just tell him to get a PSU from Maplins (about 22 quid I think) Which is cheaper than the dell recon 1 he bought off of Ebay to try
Thank you so much.
I have an dell inspiron 3650, when I turn it on the power button is orange and blinks 2 time over and over again, can you help me to fix the issue ?
My pc turns on and works fine but when i close it the power button turns orange and the fans don't shut down . Same model of pc just 4 gigs of ram and a better graphics card in it
Hi my pc has same issue may be or may be not its not rams I checked it
When I insert my gpu in pc and plug in 6 pin connector this orange light blinking continuously started and when I remove gpu my pc runs fine idk what's the issue can anyone help
Cpu :- core i7 2600
Gpu:- HD 7850
Excellent ! Thanks
For me it goes orange the blue. Shuts off. Then orange and blue and stays on at blue?
I have an xps studio 8100 the power light just stays orange no power cycle any idea what that could mean ?
Most probably was the RAM need to resitting
Hey have a Lenovo laptop here when powered on it just turns and off the display its a Z510, any good place to start measuring it out, i have solid charge light and and it stays on when power is pressed
Next stop is the 3.3v and 5v regulators on the mobo. Need to figure out where they are. They should be powered up while the charge light is on.
@@Adamant_IT well 19 volts go in and then stops i can follow it thru the first mosfets and then it just drops to 2volts, there's no power by the graphics chip and cpu also is showing 2 volts, I have the power management chip as suspect here I can't measure any defect caps and fuses are intact
Interesting... the first mosfets should be the inrush limiter near the DC jack, you mean there's only 2v coming out from that point onwards? That implies a problem with the main power rail (VIN) but if that were the case, I'm not sure how you have a charge light. Unless the light is on but the battery isn't actually charging because 2v 🤔
Check for shorts on the secondary power supplies (inductors), keeping in mind that GPU and CPU will appear to be shorted when off anyway, so ignore those.
@@Adamant_IT ah okay ill try measure once again I've looked at the backside and there not much to measure on, I'll give it another go
Hi I have a desktop vostro 220 and when I look at the big box that came with it (CPU) it has a green light for ACT but a red light for POWER idk what to do can you help please?
This didn't work. Also I got a new cpu today and that didn't work. My old won was orange too so it isn't that. I've reppaced the motherboard, power supply, cpu, earased the bottom of the ram, did the bios jumper things, and the CMOS battery reset.
i have a dell optiplex 740 and the problem is the same, but , i cant resolve ,, never tips on internet function on this pc.. help me please,,,,
I recently bought a Dell Vostro 9050 .. it works fine .. However, the motherboard & PSU are cheap pieces of junk (& proprietary mobo & PSU).. I’ve since built a Ryzen 5 3600x based PC using an MSI B450 Tomahawk mobo (for gaming) .. costing less and “way” better ... PS, at least this one you’re working on is standard ATX/mATX stuff ...
Hi there, I have an Amber light on Motherboard in my Optiplex 380. It works fine but i do not remember if that was there before, is it a problem?
WOOOOOOO thanks works yeeeeiiiiiiiiiii
I have tried all the thing ..but Orange light still appear now what should i do?
nice
I reset the bios once and it worked only that one time. When I turned it on again, it gave me the same solid orange light. Could anyone help?
Please help my Pc won't come on it has a orange light inside monitor box
This includes a box do you know anything to fix a dell desktop windows 7 XP without box?
For me it was the rams took em out and back fixed
And that helped) thank u)
HEY DUDE MY DELL OPTIPLEX 380 SERIES IS BEEPING SOUND AND ALSO BEEPING LIGHT.I HAVE REMOVED THE RAM CHECKED ALL THE WAYS. BUT MY CPU IS NOT DEAD.CAN PLEASE HELP BRO
Noticed the screw wasn't put back on the video card
I plugged it in and had orange light and sparked like crazy but I can't find anything about it
Find solutions?
@@Habitashi yes I had to replace the power supply and it works
@@Spacecat_11 oh i assumed the same, thank you so much
My comp doesn't have the test light. And my battery has 2.93vdc
Sir my CPU shows orange light it doesn't on what to do plz reply
sorry to post on an old video, clearly im drunk watching you work LOL, so does that mean the cmos battery is dying, the motherboard is dying or something just corrupted the current bios settings? im a tech as well, so its nice to be able to say exactly what the issue is and how to prevent it to the client. I think the board is going personally. those caps dont last very long.
hey I have a Dell dimension e521 I just changed my heat paste and now I'm getting a solid amber light after I cleaned the PC and added the paste can anyone help
my computer lights yellow
and the fans are not working
what should I do?
Nice CPU
You may have solved one of my problems. I`ll have to give the old thing a try. One would think they should replace the battery every fifteen years. Is that the reason my bios isn`t working properly?
That`s nice to know. I`ll try that first. It`s an old dell 260sff. If I can get it working it will be a give away. Unless it will handle a duel core upgrade.
Well that worked..It`s up and running. It didn`t detect the hard drive on boot. I booted through the usb with the linux I was trying to install to begin with when it started acting up. Once installed it`s running very slow due to an outdated integrated graphics card. I have searched high and low for the correct upgrade graphics card. Every search showed cards that didn`t match the slots. dell gx260 mini tower. sff. It doesn`t have the hinge on the front the plate is fixed and the usb exposed.
How to fix a dell...
Step 1. Throw it in the bin.
Step 2. Don't buy a Dell ever again...