Installing drivers/arduino installation help

Development Tools IDE 1.x
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Hello,

I'm gonna be honest. I'm completely new to all this installation and drivers arduino stuff. I recently purchased the arduino uno board and the beginners kit. While I was waiting for the starters kit to arrive I decided I might as well have it installed before it came. In the process of attempting to install it I ran into one issue. The issue was that when I plugged in the USB the "L" LED came on (blinking) along with the LED beside "ON". However the installation instructions explicitly said the "POWER" LED should have come on and nothing else. After installing the driver and running the example-blink it pretty much did the same thing. I cannot tell if the board for some reason started running that example or if it's a sign of a problem lol!

Thank you for your patience

edit: I changed the code to 3000 and it waited for 3 seconds before blinking so the board is obviously working properly I'm just concerned about why it was not displaying the proper LEDs when I first plugged it in.

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In my experience, all of the boards I have received have the 'Blink' example installed.
It is perfectly normal for them to do that when you first power them up.

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The first time you connected the board Windows was trying to determine what device was connected and that might have given you a few extra blinks on the L led.

The Arduino has Blink loaded as that is an easy test to see if the board is functioning.