Cannot start on battery

Hello,
Yesterday I've worked on my macbook pro on its battery with no problem (normal battery length also). Today after charging through the night I tried to power my laptop but now it doesn't boot. I can hear the 'boot tune' but that tune doesn't finish playing because my laptop than goes dead. Booting with the power cord is no problem. The battery specs are: (translated from Dutch)
full capacity: 3632 / 3550
charged: yes
charging: no
cycles: 231
condition: check battery
voltage: 12437
What happened last night? Is the battery suddenly dead now? The led's on the bottom all burn. I've bought it september 2007.
Any help is very appreciated!

Marcel, a 5600mAh battery like the one in your Mac that is down to 3632mAh is sitting on about 65% of its original capacity. Lithium batteries can become unstable by the time they reach 80% of their original capacity. Once they reach this sort of figure then their decline can become quite rapid (though there are certainly exceptions).
The "liefspan" of a Lithium battery of that era is typically two to three years. Yours is right in the middle of that age group.
Calibration may help (though it may also reveal that your battery actually has a lower capacity than reported by system profiler), but you are likely to need a new battery before very long even if it does improve things a bit in the short term.
My suggestion would be that you take it to an Apple service centre or a battery specialist for testing. Sometimes even when batteries are able to maintain sufficient voltage they lose the ability to meet the demands for enough current to deal with high demand situations (like booting the computer). A proper "stress test" will reveal this sort of problem if it is the cause of your difficulties.
Carolyn's suggestions are most certainly worth trying first, and resolve the issue for some people, but I think you will almost certainly need a new battery, I'm afraid.
Good luck
Rod

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