Blink battery light - orange

Yea I'll be giving them a call in the next few days as to get a replacement. Mine is a 6 cell, but now I've got a 9 cell on loan. Guess I'll be holding onto it until I get a replacement it. I can't get anything right - everything I order has something wrong..

 

Ah, yeah, I know the one. To be honest, I've never had that work properly (shows how much charge, indicator showing long-term aging never seems to show up). We can be fairly certain, however, that that shouldn't be happening.

The same thing has happened with the 4-cell and 9-cell with my Latitude D420. I get 50 minutes out of the 4-cell and 4 hours 30min on the 9-cell (Which may not sound bad, but this is a laptop which should have up to 7 hours!)

 

I've never had an issue getting the button to work on other machines.

I don't know what made me test it, but something did..and I am very glad I did.

 

They are sending a new battery out monday. I still don't think they understand what I was trying to say..they wanted me to install drivers -- for a battery, ugh. I wish they would just shut up and listen, and then maybe, just maybe they'd understand.

 

Got the replacement. It does the same thing. The 9 cell doesn't though...

 

Just came across this thread and my laptop has the same issue - occasionally it goes green-orange-orange-orange-orange-repeat. According to Dell, this is because the battery is too hot to charge:
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/latd610/en/ug_en/solving.htm#wp1281112

Now why that happens in my nice climate controlled cubicle is another question...

 

Try this, try with another ac adapter, if that doesnt work call dell, the motherboard might be faulty.

 

My mom's Latitude D510 is doing this, and it wasn't before. It just started doing this after I installed a new hard drive.

 

When it blinks orange/off/orange/off it is because the battery is low

However other patterns are possible, I discovered after leaving mine inthe car overnight on a cold night, that it blinks orange/off/orange/off/blue/off when the battery is too cold, and will refuse to boot.

 

I have seen this about 60-70 times on the Dell 120L, and it usually fixes the problem by changing the battery, but Dell has admitted that the battery on that computer is cr*p, and as posted a couple of post above here, it might be the motherboard as that has also fixed the problem on the 120L.
As far as with the D630 I have not seen the problem with any of the 3 ones we have as they are pretty sturdy and good computers.