Dell Inspiron 600m Battery

I had issue with the battery in my 1505 too. It was just over a year old when I had the GPU burn through the motherboard and fry the motherboard. Prior to that I'd never had any indications of the battery being bad. Less than two weeks after the motherboard went out, I noticed the Dell Inspiron 600m Battery was messed up. It shows it holds a full charge at 100%. All of the lights come on on the battery itself but it only lasts 10-15 minutes,I like some of you found out the batteries are only covered one year. So mine was 48 days out of warranty when I chatted with Dell about the issue.When Dell knew of the problem they should have notified all customers and offered a recall or at least a permanent solution. But it seems to me instead, Dell just sits on a large stock of those faulty adapters and is handing them out to anyone within warranty. When your laptop warranty runs out you're forced to by the correct (90W or higher) sold by 'Dell'. And that's only if you catch the problem before it fries your motherboard.

Dell Inspiron 600m Battery

I know one thing, when I have a new laptop in the future.. 350 days into that first year, I'm going to really analyze that battery. I am having the exact same issue. I purchased my insp 1520 in Sept 2007 and just received the same battery replace error. Coincidence or defective manufacturing? I was told the same crap about the Dell Inspiron 630m battery only being warrantied for one year, which would have been less that a week ago. I was not told this when I purchased the extended warranty either.In fact, if the warranty started from the time I received the system and began using it, instead of the invoice date.... It would still be covered, as there were MAJOR delays in getting my system shipped last year. Not to mention, I very rarely use my laptop on battery power, it should not be worn out all ready. I'm highly dissappointing in DELL, their service and their products.

I just started experiencing the same issue, less than a month after this apparent one year warranty ran up! My battery from my Dell Inspiron 1520 fell to 0%, and it now will not charge. I even purchased the extended 3-year warranty, assuming all parts would be included (common sense to me). I rarely EVER use the battery for my 1520. I have only used the Dell Inspiron 6400 battery for about 4-5 car trips and occasionally at home when the charger becomes accidentally unplugged (which I then plug back in when I realize). I cannot even recall the last time the life went down to 0%, and now this time, one of the only occurrences where the battery has gone this low- it won't charge at all now? If the one year warranty is true, this is, to me, unacceptable. I have had this laptop for about 13 and a half months, and the battery, which I have rarely used, now appears completely dead. While a battery may be considered a consumable product, perhaps the product should do it's job more than a handful of times before malfunctioning! 



Here's why the AC Adapters / Motherboards for a range of DELL Laptops keep dying on so many good customers:The design of the hardware circuitry for identification of the DELL AC Adapter is seriously flawed. The root cause is the use of an UNSHIELDED cable between the controller chip on the Mother board and the ID chip pin in the Dell Inspiron 640m battery. This unshielded lead acts as an ANTENNA and easily picks up electromagnetic pollution going straight to the chip circuitry. The hardware circuitry is not hardened to deal with electromagnetic fields.Consequently this energy is dissipated in the chips on each end of the lead ruining either one chip or both chips if the electromagnetic spike was powerful enough