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The easiest way to determine whether your computer is equipped with a backlit keyboard is to look at the F10, F6, or right arrow key (located in the lower right corner). If none of these keys have the illumination icon printed on it, your computer does not have a backlit keyboard.

Select your computer model from the Table of Contents and follow the instructions for updating the BIOS and changing the settings on the keyboard backlight. Your backlit keyboard may have options other than off (disabled), dim, or bright.

Over time, many models of Dell computers have had different BIOS interfaces and different options depending on the hardware in the computer. Once in the BIOS, you must configure your BIOS interface to match the instructions below.

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Are you having trouble seeing your keyboard in dim lighting? Several Dell laptops are equipped with a backlit keyboard, an attractive addition that makes your keyboard easier to see in dark or poorly lit spaces. This wikiHow article will help you discover whether your Dell computer has a keyboard light, and then teach you how to turn it on.

I recently bought a Dell G5 laptop which came pre-installed with Windows OS. However, I removed Windows OS and install Ubuntu 20.04.02 LTS on it. Now, I'm unable to get the keyboard backlight to work and I'm unable to find a solution to this problem.

I don't have brightnessctl installed (Asus Zenbook) on 20.04 LTS but I am able to use Fn+F7 to toggle on or off the keyboard backlight.The question is already a year old but it may help some people facing the same issue.

For anyone searching like me; If you were searching for Backlit keyboard instead of keyboard backlight; then it can only be enabled (on those keyboards; that have that functionality in the first place), from the keyboard function key (in my case it was F9).

Just purchased a Precision Workstation 7520 from the Dell Outlet. To my surprise, it came without a backlit keyboard. Who would spend so much money on a premium laptop and not throw in a few more bucks for a backlit keyboard? It really makes a big difference!

According to the manual, there is supposed to be a Keyboard Illumination entry in the Bios that I can toggle on/off. However, this entry does not appear in my Bios, which is the latest version 1.6.0. I even upgraded the Bios (to the same version) just in case the upgrade process might detect the backlit keyboard and make the entry available, but no luck.

To help me diagnose this, can anyone with a Precision 7510 or 7520 please tell me if you have a backlit keyboard that is actually lighting up? If yes, which version of the Bios are you running?

I researched further and noticed that when I updated the patches/drivers from the Dell update site for my Service Tag, the same update keeps reappearing. It's the Intel Engine Management Components Installer.

So rather than process the download/update using Dell's website, I manually downloaded this file and executed it directly. The first time it ran it failed. So I rebooted and ran it again. The second time it worked. Then I rebooted and waited about 25 minutes for the boot process to complete while the screen displayed "Preparing to Configure Windows ... Do Not Turn Off Your Computer."

- When the update is run from the Dell website, no messages are displayed to indicate that the update failed. So the first time I ran it, I just assumed it worked. Only when I checked for additional updates and noticed the same file reappearing did I become suspicious. That's when I manually download the file and ran it directly with multiple reboots as described above.

This works just fine on mine. (as well as the machine until all the recent BDOS errors) but I do have the backlit keyboard options in my bios. I am also using the 1.6.0 bios from the site. This sounds like there is some other progamming that tells the system what it has that is not user controllable.

Thank you so much for posting this. I also purchased a 7520 from the outlet, and it also does not have the backlit keyboard. I will be following your path and ordering / installing a backlit keyboard myself.

I am having a boot issue with my Dell i7559 laptop. I was using it normally this morning and suddenly get an IRQL type error. The computer resets itself and is doing some kind of diagnostic test and it freezes in the middle of that. So I reboot the computer and it won't boot up after that.

The current situation is that I can power it on. The power light will turn on, and the keyboard lights will turn on, but nothing else happens. I don't hear the fan at all (usually it turns on when I boot up the computer) and the screen is completely blank. The screen is working though because when I hit D+power on, I get the flashing lights. When I plug the computer into an external monitor, there is no response. But other than the power light and keyboard light being on, there is no response whatsoever from the computer. I think this is considered a No-post error but I couldn't find any more info to diagnose the issue (there is a tech support page on dell.com that lets you diagnose no-post errors via the LCD lights on the laptop but i7559 isn't listed on that page).

This is similar to an issue I had a few months ago. I was getting lots of weird blue screen of death errors, and the computer wouldn't boot past the bios and eventually got bricked. That time the solution was that I opened it up, cleaned out the dust, swapped the RAM into the other slot, and then when I rebooted it, it worked fine and has worked fine until this issue today. I tried doing that again but it didn't change anything.

---Apparently the LED indicator on the battery light is flashing 4 WHITE and 2 ORANGE. I googled that and it means a "Memory/RAM failure." So do I just need to buy a new stick of RAM and put it in there?

I fixed the issue. The ram stick and/or ram slot had gotten dirty or dusty. So I opened the computer, blew compressed air on the RAM stick and RAM slot, inserted it back in and then my computer worked fine. This is the 2nd time this has happened to me so it might be a design flaw with this model of laptop. But if you are getting 2 amber (orange) and 4 white lights then try this.

I have a few Dell Latitude laptops - E7440, E7450, E7470 and 7490 - some have keyboards with lights under them.
The ones with the keyboard lights sometimes hang with the display showing the it was saving the keyboard light status.

More or less one week ago, I downloaded the mandatory updates on Windows 11 (I set my PC as dual boot with Windows 11 already came from the original manufacturer and I installed the Pop_OS) but last Friday during a local power outage I was using the notebook only through his battery and I could realize that the RGB keyboard lights weren't working on Pop OS unlike before.

When I choose Windows 11 at GRUB on it the RGB keyboard lights are lit by through Alienware Command Center and after restarting the computer they remain lit. But when I choose any of the Pop_OS kernel configurations available, some seconds before the GDM screen is displayed the keyboard lights turn off and keep.

I have tried to downgrade my BIOS firmware driver and Alienware Command Center on Windows 11 to try to solve the issue on BIOS and consequently on Pop OS but nothing happened, now I am figuring out if this issue is on Windows/BIOS updates (I don't know if they cause any impact on other systems), the NVIDIA driver on my Pop_OS or any kernel modification.

When I try to boot my laptop, the lights of the keyboard light up, and the fan spins very fast, and when I boot it with D pressed, it does some screen tests and then it turns off, I suspect it might be the ram because of this article, please help.

I have it already running without battery, because it wont turn on with it. The computer now works, but sometimes it doesen't, however, since I don't plan on using it as my main pc, it doesen't matter, but thank you for your answer

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