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Dell battery blinks 3 times with 3 lights and malfunctions

Asked by ursschriber in Hardware Components, PC Laptops, Miscellaneous Hardware

Tags: battery, dell, blinking, lights

My Dell Latitude D600 battery light is blinking green once than three times orange. Pushing the test button on the battery, it blinks 3 times with 3 test lights coming on (every other one), then quits blinking. Battery is supposed to be new. It takes about 5 hours to charge it but only runs about one hour - with PC more or less idle - What is going on? And is the rumor true, that Dell only lets you charge your battery approx. 300 times and then it goes 'haywire' from one day to the other and you need a new one? This happened to me from one day to the other. Used LT on battery, plugged it in during the night, next morning the problem started. The Laptop works fine with the second battery I have. A 2 hour charge gives me 150 min+ of runtime. The second battery test button brings on all 5 test lights when fully charged.
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