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Question posted by vlakshminarayanan on June 27th, 2024

Orange Led Blinking And Motherboard Led Glowing In Front Panel. What Is The Prob

Orange LED light always glowing and motherboard LED glowing in front panel. How to solve this problem.

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Answer #1: Posted by hzplj9 on June 27th, 2024 1:16 PM

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Refer to the information in this link.

https://pubs.lenovo.com/x3550-m3/c_operator_panel

Hope that solves your problem.

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https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/system-board-lighpath-led-warning-and-cpumem-vrd-fault-ibm-system-x

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