sony recall 100,000 batteries with problem

Sony recall 100,000 laptop batteries in global

According to reports, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced, HP, Toshiba, Dell, Lenovo, Acer is recalling about 100,000 Sony manufactured notebook computer batteries with problem, the reasons are that they received 40 complaints of overheating notebook computer reports. These batteries's producting time is from 2004 to 2005.

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission points out that Hewlett-Packard, Toshiba, Dell and other computer manufacturers have received 40 complaints report so far, the report has "4 incident resulted in minor burns, 21 resulted in minor property damage." According to some reports, with the notebook computer battery problem will smoke, and even flames.

Notebook users to recall the steps

(In Acer TravelMate 4100 as an example)

• First: make sure that your machine is the TravelMate 4100 series.


• Second: Please check whether the battery has a "SMP" word, in the absence of "SMP" words,or not in the scope of the replacement program.


• Third: If the TravelMate 4100 models has "SMP" word, please copy down your battery serial number.


• fourth : Please copy down your product code and than call Service Telephone.

The recall involves the notebook models (time of the batteries for the factory from 2004 to 2005)

Dell:

Dell Latitude 110L

Dell Inspiron 1100

Dell Inspiron 1150

Dell Inspiron 5100

Dell Inspiron 5150

Dell Inspiron 5160

HP

HP Pavilion dv1000, dv8000

HP Pavilion zd8000

HP Compaq Presario v2000

HP Compaq Presario v2400

HP Compaq nc6110

HP Compaq nc6120

HP Compaq nc6140

HP Compaq nc6220

HP Compaq nc6230

HP Compaq nx4800

HP Compaq nx4820

HP Compaq nx6110

HP Compaq nx6120

HP Compaq nx9600

Toshiba

Toshiba Satellite A70/A75

Toshiba Satellite P30/P5

Toshiba Satellite M30X/M35X

Toshiba Satellite M50/M55