Green light blinking problem - battery drains out

Hi everyone! I've being owning a Nikon D60 for 4 years now and I like it a lot! I did a good purchase that time!

However at times I experience an annoying problem...
When I shut down the camera, the green light on the back, at the bottom, keep blinking and eventually it drains out all the battery. If I have the camera on, every few seconds (maybe 3) the LCD turns black and the green light blinks once. A part from that, the camera works, takes pictures and save them in the SD properly.

I do not know how to fix it. The weird thing is that sometimes it is like this, but other times (luckily, more often) it works perfectly with no annoying blinking.

I've read that the green light refers to the "Writing process" on the SD. But even changing the SD won't fix it. The only way would be to take it out, but by doing so I would not be able to use the camera of course...

Furthermore I kinda think that the problem first arose after trying old lenses (compatible though, but only with the Manual Program). But still, I've been using those old lenses until now! I use three old lenses and the one that came with the camera.

Any hint?

Thanks!

I have no idea of what could be happening with your camera. But, have you tried to do a reset? Sometimes this cures little things like the one you mention. Other than that, it might be ready for a visit to the camera doctor.

Hi! Thanks for your reply! Then I'll try again to reset the camera and format the card... let's see... otherwise, by:

it might be ready for a visit to the camera doctor.

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you mean it's time for her to go to Nikon's repair center or sth like that? Coz it would be out of warranty..
Anyway, thanks for your suggestion!

Jacopo said:

Hi! Thanks for your reply! Then I'll try again to reset the camera and format the card... let's see... otherwise, by:
you mean it's time for her to go to Nikon's repair center or sth like that? Coz it would be out of warranty..
Anyway, thanks for your suggestion! [/COLOR]

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Out of warranty doesn't meant it can't be repaired. You usually can have an estimate of repair costs and then take the decision to repair or replace. I don't see another solution.

Was the card old? Does it do the same with many different cards?

Lest us know what you find since your solution might help someone else in the future.

I think its the battery problem, try to run the camera with the new battery and see the difference, even my Nikon D5100 after one year use have the same problem.

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I found this. They are calling it BGLOD (BLINKING GREEN LIGHT OF DEATH)

BGLoD is a common failure for the first production models.

It doesn't seem to matter whether you bought your camera from the Asia-Pacific region, the Europe region, or the America's - a certain percentage of D90's will fail with BGLoD.

There appears to be 2 main causes - failure of the Light Measuring FPC, and failure of the DC/DC converter.

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Some further reading can be found on flickr don't narrow your search or reading to just your model. A fast search of fiickr this problem is across many other older models from the D90 and down from what I can see.

I read a couple of "try this and see if it fix's it", some worked and some did not. I also read ultimately if you have to send it in to Nikon you looking at about a $200 repair.

I not all that sure what I am talking about -- but isn't it that when the light is blinking it is writing data to the card?

Does your D60 have the most current firmware update?
The D70 was notorious for this problem. Some people had success doing a reset. Some had no success other than sending it to Nikon for repair. Mine was fine after updating the firmware.

Hope this helps.