4 Steps to Fix Dell Blinking Orange Light

The blinking amber power button or also called Orange Light of Death is a common problem for Dell Desktop. The reason would be the electrical faulty on the Motherboard, front panel or Power supply. However most of the time the trick is to push the black button (of the Power Supply) twice.

4 steps with pictures:

1. Long press the blinking power button of  the front panel until the orange light goes away.

2. Locate the black button (of the power supply on the back panel) and long press until  you see a flashing orange light on the power button. You also could hear the sound of the CPU fan.


3. Release the button, and now long press it again (about 10 seconds).

4. Turn on your computer by pressing the power button and it should work.

Comments

  1. We had left our computer on during vacation, forgetting about a scheduled power outage (repairs) during our absence. Upon our return, the computer Dell XPS 8910 wouldn't boot past the big round 'Dell' symbol. I tried several 'fixes', but nothing was working. Finally I saw a comment on someone's post on some site talking about 'switching off the power supply' after unplugging it... , so I checked to see if our unit had that switch. Nope, no switch - but I did find the little black button. A few tries with power cord plugged in and not, brought me to the point of plugged in, press the black button and hear the fans roar and seeing the front power button light up - then I tried the power button again and Viola! The system came back to normal!

    Thanks for the information!!

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  2. it still didn't work, what should I do

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  3. It's not working please help😭😭😭😭 am in big trouble πŸ˜”

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  4. IT FRICKING BLEW SOMETHING UP IN MY PC IDK WHAT BUT IT SMELLS BURNING

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  5. Hurrraaaahhh....its working....thank you bro

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  6. BAD idea! Holding the power supply button down instead of simply pressing it once shortly forces the power supply on. If there is a short in the system and you hold that down instead of a brief press you may end up with even more components fried. A better option is to simply unplug the power cord out of the back of the computer completely, Press the Power Supply reset button ONCE but do NOT hold it down. This resets the breaker similar to your homes circuit panel. Now go ahead and plug the power cord back in. If the system does not turn on like normal when you press the front power button then you have another issue such as a bad CMOS clock battery or ram that is loose or a faulty motherboard or power supply.

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    1. Very helpful. My ram was loose, thanks for helping :)

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    2. Thanks for the advice. Worked like a charm :)

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  7. I have tried its not working tell me the other way round may be it can help me. Please am in need of my PC to work.

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  8. Twice press on black button did the job. Thx

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  9. Dell XPS 8900 series. I had exactly this problem and it seems that a USB port was overloaded. When I removed all usb connections from the front USB ports and connected to the back USB ports instead, the system booted normally.

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  10. My tried this and it's still blinking, I cut it off and unplug and press button but when I turned it back on it still had the blinking light and won't cut on

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  11. I followed the above instructions but they didn't really work for me. I ended up unplugging the computer to fully turn off, then plugged back in and didn't press the power button.
    Instead, I held down black button, turned on the computer, and it started back up as usual. Released the black button after it powered-up with no orange light.

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  12. Thank you double clicked the power button

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  13. Iam using dell i3 7th gen so my power supply only has the green batton so how do i restart mine

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