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April 11th, 2005 09:00
Dead Battery
I'm the lucky owner of an Inspiron 8200, which have functioned perfectly.
Now suddenly one of the batteries (i have two), has gone from 100% working to 100% dead. Whenever I insert it in to the module slot - the battery indicator starts flashing orange. When I press the indicator button on the battery nothing happends. It seems like the battery is totally discharged.
How can the battery suddenly totally die like that?
Does anyone know if there is a way to reset, the battery or do something magical about it.?
The battery is app. 2,5 years.
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Gorm
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April 11th, 2005 10:00
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April 11th, 2005 16:00
Hi there, just found the forum while i was searching for a sollution for my battery problem.
Mine is dead too, but i opened it and replaced the cells with brand new ones. but still charege led on my latitude is flashing orange, and when i push the batterybutton 4 led's light up and the first one is flashing.
So there must be a way to reset the electronics in the battery, because the battery's are 100% good.
I hope someone has the solution.....
greets Freddy
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April 11th, 2005 19:00
GormStilbo
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April 12th, 2005 05:00
Hi
I was curious, so I opened my battery and there are nicely lined up batteries 2 times 4 pieces. I wanted to know if the batteries really was dead, so I took out my multimeter to get at reading on the voltage on the individual batteries. They all had very nice readings between 3.1 and 3.5 volt. None of them were dead or had bad readings. Naturally I can't measure the amps...
I could also get nice readings all the way up to the electronics, but from the connectors I could only get a 4.5 volt reading on one set of the terminals. Since it is a 14.4 Volt battery - this means to me that something goes wrong in the electronics somewhere. I don't know where to get documentation on the actual interface, but anyway...
I would very much like to raise this question: WHY DO WE HAVE TO BUY NEW BATTERIES if there is NOTHING WRONG with the batteries? DELL? Any ideas - I want an answer? It seems to me that the actual batteries outlives the electronics, and I want to know why this is the case. I don't want to spend $90 on a new battery if the one I have is working!
/Gorm