LED lights behave strangely.....is this normal?

I just got a new laptop yesterday (G580, Pentium B960, 2 GB RAM, 500 GB HD) and I've been noticing the following strange pattern in the LED lights (status indicators).
1. When my laptop is off and I connect it to power, the power LED and the battery LED turn on, and they both keep blinking continuously in intervals of about 5 seconds. Is this normal?
2. The power LED appears quite small when my laptop is off, but turns as big as the other LEDs when I push the power button to turn on my laptop.
3. As soon as I turn on the laptop, the power LED grows as big as the other LEDs and stops blinking. Only the battery LED keeps blinking every 5 seconds.
4. This blinking of the battery LED stops when my laptop is running on battery. So both the LEDs stop blinking when my laptop is running on battery.
Is all this normal? Sorry if I sound naive, but I noticed no such things with my earlier Acer netbook so I'm a bit concerned...this is my second laptop. Because its new, I'm a bit sensitive about anything going wrong.
Thanks for the help....

Hi ylenovo,
Thank you for posting and Welcome to Lenovo Community,
Congratulations on your new Lenovo purchase,
I’d like to confirm to you that when you connect the Charger and the battery is charging it will be blinking in Orange color within time about 5 seconds as you stated as this mean that the battery is connected and its charging,
But I’d like to ask you about the power led if its blinking could you please make sure that the laptop is completely off and not in sleep mode or hibernated,
And please share with us the color of the battery led which is blinking.
Thanks and Regards,
Soha
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