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Dell Inspiron laptop: Battery light blinks 2 amber, 2 white

2 amber · 2 whitebattery or charge light
Our drawing: the battery or charge light, 2 amber blinks, then 2 white blinks, then a pause, over and over.

System board: BIOS or ROM failure.

Applies to: Inspiron laptops, the section for models from 2020 to 2025 (Dell article 000140521). Dell says the diagnostic indicators may vary across different models and to see the documentation of your Dell laptop for device-specific information, so check your model.

What Dell says to do

  1. Dell says to flash (update) the BIOS to the latest revision, following its BIOS Update Guide.

Dell says to contact Dell Technical Support for further troubleshooting if the problem persists.

No repair advice of our own: semiatic gives no repair instructions of its own; beyond Dell’s steps, ask Dell Technical Support. What that means.

Counting the code and which Dell Inspiron models this table covers: reading Dell Inspiron blinks.

Source

Dell’s own support page, read on the date shown.

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