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Power LED
| solid green
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System on (normal).
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| blinks green
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System booting (until Mc ctld starts) or flash memory write in progress.
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| slowly blinks green
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Sleep timer enabled.
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Link/Activity LED
| solid orange
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10Mbps connection.
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| solid green
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100Mbps connection.
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Disk Full LED
| solid red
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Hard drive full.
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| blinks red
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Flash memory write in progress.
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Diagnostic LED
| blinks red
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Flash memory write in progress.
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| blinks red 3 times
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/dev/hda3 not mounted to /mnt error (non-critical).
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| blinks red 4 times
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Cooling fan error (critical, system shutdown).
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| blinks red 5 times
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Flash memory error (critical, system powers off).
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| blinks red 6 times
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Hard drive or Mc ctld error (critical, system shutdown).
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| blinks red 7 times
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RAM, NIC, or HDD controller error (critical, system shutdown).
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Power, disk full, and diag flashing at the same time means you are in EM mode (or emergency mode).