Charging light blinks 3 times (NOT MEMORY)

Ok. I have 2 virtually identical machines. One is a Compaq CQ57-229WM and an HP 2000-2B19WM. They share a lot of components like batteries, chargers, memory, etc... Problem is the 2000 is was Windows 8.0 It was hard enough for my 69 year old mother to grasp Win7 and IMPOSSIBLE for her to understand Win8 without touch screen interface, so I downgraded it to Win7 and it worked fine...for a while. It kept getting slower and slower and finally got to the point of being useless. I ordered a set of restore DVD's and was going to restore it to Win8, give mom mine and use the 2000 myself. I read the instructions, booted the way the flyer said to and it began to repair the system. About 20 seconds into it, it froze and would not respond and finally shut off. It was plugged in but I thought the battery may have died and grabbed my Compaq battery (same part # by the way), put it in and nothing. I didn't think anything of it since I had been using my Compaq and it had been left unplugged for a few days and thought the battery on it was dead also. I swapped batteries back, plugged in the Compaq and the A/C charge light didn't come on. I pressed the power button and the A/C light flashed 3 times and went off. I put the battery back into the HP and pressed the power button and the button itself barely blinks (more of a quick 'glow' than a flicker) and the A/C light blinked 3 times. I swapped memory out on the Compaq with some new memory (since the 3 flash code if for bad memory module) and nothing... still 3 flashes.
Anyone want to try a stab at this one? I am thinking the battery lost its 'condition memory', but which do I put a new battery in since they are both doing the same thing now? AND if that is the case, how do I recover the HP and restore Win8 on it if all it is going to do is short out batteries?
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Basically what I am saying is that I now have 2 machines doing the exact same thing at the exact same time. One was being restored to Windows 8 and died and the other just donated a battery for about 1 minute and now it will not work either. There was nothing wrong with the Compaq (battery donor) before the battery swap.

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