Battery Bloated, got it replaced in 2009, bloated once again. what to do?

I bought a 13" white macbook in March 2008. A year later i noticed that my battery had swollen. I had purchased the APP with it and the battery was replaced in August 2009. Now a couple of months again I've noticed a bulge in the battery. My Macbook is out of warranty now, but I don't see any reason why i should pay to get a new battery as its clearly Apple's fault

They didn't like my MacMall ram so they took it out and gave it to me saying "this isn't a certified apple ram, it didn't pass a few tests and could create problems with system stability". Honestly, I feel that macmall ram is just as good as apple ram so I put it back in. <</div>
Just be advised you reinstalled RAM that has already failed some of Apple's hardware tests. Any future issues this creates may or may not be covered (depending on what they are of course and if they are in any RAM related.)
Failed RAM can cause a unit not to turn on, at all. So if you think your 3rd party RAM that has already failed hardware tests is "just as good" then please make sure you back up all of your crucial data that you can not stand to lose. In my experience anyway, when I used cheap rate 3rd party RAM, I always paid for it later on with downtime for repairs, lost data (my backups I had made become corrupt in the meantime and could not be read from.)
On my MBP I saved up and had the RAM upgraded at the apple store, so I wouldn't have to worry about that again.

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FinchDrive wrote:
I just finished running the AHT and an extended test. Hardware error pointing to the battery on both:
4xxx/40000005: "Battery"
and 4xxx/4/40000005: ◊òä "Battery"
upon the extended test.
Do these codes refer strictly to the battery, or to possibly other components that interact with it?
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