Flashing Battery light

[clonmult]

Got a Dell D600 here (its a little old, 512meg, 1.4gig Pentium M), and the battery light has started to flash alternate red/green, even when its full.

Red normally means "bad" - the battery only lasted about half an hour last night - does the red flashing mean either a problem with the battery, or the charging circuit?

[LordGrover]

May be worth having a look here.

[Podie]

Basically the battery has died - time to buy a new one.

[clonmult]

Podie said:

Basically the battery has died - time to buy a new one.

More like an excuse for work to replace the laptop.

Didn't think of pressing the button on the battery to see what it says - two of the six cells aren't working.

It won't take over 512 meg of ram (well, only one of the slots is working, and they've only got 512 meg cards available). Continually getting low virtual memory errors.

And I'm doing app development/support, doing 24x7 on call, so having something that starts up quicker, or at least has decent battery life could be essential ....

[NickFRP]

clonmult said:

Podie said:

Basically the battery has died - time to buy a new one.

More like an excuse for work to replace the laptop.

Didn't think of pressing the button on the battery to see what it says - two of the six cells aren't working.

It won't take over 512 meg of ram (well, only one of the slots is working, and they've only got 512 meg cards available). Continually getting low virtual memory errors.

And I'm doing app development/support, doing 24x7 on call, so having something that starts up quicker, or at least has decent battery life could be essential ....

d500 batteries were quite expensive, so considernig a new laptop and turning that one into a file server could be the way forward!