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.
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