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Diagnostics – Toshiba PCX1100U User Manual

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Diagnostics

The Cable Modem has five status LEDs for diagnostics. You can monitor the LEDs

during installation and during normal operations .

Table 1 shows Cable Modem status LEDs and identifies what each LED light

means. This table will help you to diagnose problems.

Function

Color

Definition

Power

Green

-

dark for power off

-

solid for power on

Cable

Green

-

dark for no downstream RF carrier present or
power off

-

flashing slowly (*1) for downstream RF carrier
present and initial ranging in progress

-

flashing fast (*2) for registration in progress

-

solid for the Cable Modem registered and ready
to transfer data

PC

Green

-

dark for no carrier to/from PC present or power
off

-

solid for carrier to/from PC present

Data

Green

-

dark for no user data going through the Cable
Modem to/from PC present or power off

-

flashing for user data going through the Cable
Modem to/from PC present

Test

Amber

-

dark for initial self-test of the Cable Modem OK
or power off

-

flashing for initial self-test of the Cable Modem in
progress or software down loading of the Cable
Modem in progress

-

solid for self-test failure of the Cable Modem

Table 1 Status LEDs

(*1) flashing slowly : flashing every 2-seconds (approximately)

(*2) flashing fast : flashing every 1-second (approximately)