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<blockquote data-quote="AxeMan - Rick S." data-source="post: 76094" data-attributes="member: 1746"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/nikond90club/discuss/72157611350527233/?search=blinking+green" target="_blank">Flickr: Discussing Help Please* Memory Card Reader Flashing Light Problem... in NIKON D90 CLUB</a>&nbsp;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. &nbsp;Posted 44 months ago &nbsp;&nbsp;Some further reading can be found on flickr don't narrow your search or reading to just your model.&nbsp; A fast search of fiickr this problem is across many other older models from the D90 and down from what I can see.&nbsp;I read a couple of &quot;try this and see if it fix's it&quot;, some worked and some did not.&nbsp; I also read ultimately if you have to send it in to Nikon you looking at about a $200 repair.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AxeMan - Rick S., post: 76094, member: 1746"] [URL="http://www.flickr.com/groups/nikond90club/discuss/72157611350527233/?search=blinking+green"]Flickr: Discussing Help Please* Memory Card Reader Flashing Light Problem... in NIKON D90 CLUB[/URL] [COLOR=#0000cd][I]I found this. They are calling it BGLOD ([B]BLINKING[/B] [B]GREEN[/B] 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. Posted 44 months ago[/I] [/COLOR] 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. [/QUOTE]

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