Bad Battery or Motherboard problem

[twillingham]

My battery wont charge the indicator light continually flashes red. If I remove the battery and put it back in the indicator light stays orange for about sixty seconds then flashes red continually thereafter. i thought even if the battery was bad, it would still charge and run for a short amount of time. This battery wont charge and the battery refresh program just runs for over 8 hours with nothing Is this a bad battery or is something else going on?

[tomcat57]

Flashing red means one of two things
1) Defective battery
2) faulty charging system



Alex

[twillingham]

i think it might be the latter when i run the battery calibration program it says 50 per cent and charge status but yet the program runs all day and nothing changes is there a sure fire way to tell which is the problem i really dont want to spend 100 for a battery and it wont charge either

[teo]

i think it might be the latter when i run the battery calibration program it says 50 per cent and charge status but yet the program runs all day and nothing changes is there a sure fire way to tell which is the problem i really dont want to spend 100 for a battery and it wont charge either

Your battery is dead you need a replacement one.


teo

[tomcat57]

i think it might be the latter when i run the battery calibration program it says 50 per cent and charge status but yet the program runs all day and nothing changes is there a sure fire way to tell which is the problem i really dont want to spend 100 for a battery and it wont charge either

In the panasonic utilities there is a program called pc information viewer
In that program under battery you can see your battery charge rate
Or a free program called Batterybar
If it is 0 you know for sure that its not charging
Teo is 99% correct that its a battery issue though, its not common to have the charging system fail

Alex

[twillingham]

Yep the battery charge rate is O I guess I will be shopping for a battery