Buy a Macbook Air or iPad when it comes out in April (although I know they aren't fault proof, I bet that their mobo's won't die before a button falls off it).Take it to some 3rd party repair (I rang one shop and they said it'd cost $600).Take a risk, assume the mobo needs a replacement, buy one and do the job myself.Spend $400 AUD getting some kind of replacement from DELL + Warranty.Right now I'm just contemplating what to do: So in other words, you're right, it could be a mobo issue instead. I'm not an expert, so I can't really see another way. The only way to know whether it's not a battery issue is to find someone who has a perfectly healthy XPS M1330 and insert your battery into it and then monitor it. Because when I plug the AC cord into the laptop, I noticed that the blue LED on the AC adaptor turns off. It looks like the motherboard did short out or something. Hi Speedster, ironically my XPS M1330 died on me on the 15th March 2010. The others are just informative links I found after writing up all the above.
The first link is the one where I drew my conclusion from (point 8). I think my battery is foobar, but I'm gonna attempt to see if it's not too late to exercise it.
Dell latitude e6420 battery light flashing orange windows#
Perhaps on a balanced power plan, down till windows usually tells you to plug the cord back in (which is somewhere around 6-12% I believe). So if you're like me and rarely use the battery in your laptop and have the lithium-ion type of battery, consider running on battery power at least once a week. I seriously can't believe I overlooked that. If you rarely use your car, or drive very short distances, your car battery will wear out to the point where it needs replacement. I remember the same thing happening to the battery in the car. I highly doubt that the electrical contacts are dirty as the battery has always been plugged in since the day I bought it. I also hardly use it as I use the power adaptor more often. What did I do wrong now? I've always had my 9 cell Li-ion battery fully charged and plugged into the laptop. So it's obviously a problem with the battery and not a glitch. When you pull the battery out, the indicator at the front of the laptop disappears. When you press the button on the battery itself, it lights up green with the amount of power there currently is in the battery (mine showed all 5 green LED's because it was 100% fully charged). I guess this is more of an informative thread:Īnyways, just noticed that the battery indicator at the front of my laptop (a battery symbol with a lightning strike through it) flashes blue once then reddish/sanguine (heh heh) orange about 5 times. Wow, I haven't posted at OCAU in a long time, I guess that's a good sign that I must know my stuff in computer troubleshooting
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