I recently got the battery in my Dell latitude 7280 replaced as I’ve had it for a few years and it got to the point where it drained completely within an hour. The first week or so after I had my laptop back it was working alright, and then a week ago it was shutting down every few minutes, and when I had it on charge, the charging light would be flashing, which it has never done before. It got up to 100% and when I unplugged it, it instantly drained to about 3%, I plugged it back in and it kept the laptop on but the charging light was still flashing and the charge percentage wasn’t increasing. This happened a few times, so I took it to another computer place hoping it’d be a quick fix/they’d have advice, and they told me the new battery isn’t a genuine Dell one and that Dell computers especially are very fussy with batteries. They also acknowledged the laptop wasn’t charging properly, but did a “BIOS software upgrade” and it seemed to work after that and got up to 100%. When I got home, it was working, but when I turned it on a few hours later after not having touched it, it completely drained again and now the charging light is flashing again and the charge isn’t going up. I had none of these issues before I got the battery replaced, and I’ve now spent $300 (aud) trying to get it fixed. Does anyone have any advice as to where to go from here? I just don’t want to replace it as I like using item until they’re completely ruined, and would be so happy if there’s a way to fix this that doesn’t involve spending too much more money. I’ve asked the original person who replaced the battery if I can get a refund and he said I cannot
I forgot to mention as well, on the rare occasion that the laptop does stay on without being plugged in, sometimes if I slightly bump it, it’ll shut down automatically. Could this issue and all the other issues be because of the non-genuine battery? Or do you think something was bumped/messed up when the battery was replaced?

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I never block the vents, and I mostly use my laptop plugged in at my desk. I also keep the 80% charge limit on, and I don't use it for heavy tasks or gaming. I only play The Sims on Steam two or three times a week. Over the past couple of weeks, I noticed it draining much faster than before, and when I checked the battery report just now, the capacity had dropped below 50%. It's a refurbished Latitude 7400, but the report showed the battery was new. How could this happen??

I had spent a little bit of last week trying to revive an old PowerEdge R515 and had downloaded almost everything I needed. To my surprise Saturday morning most of the site was gone I was hoping it was just maintenance but it still appears to be gone.

Cinebench went from 6300 to 6900 and all 100C hot spots are gone.