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Dells overheat and then some
Member Review The system runs hot and is prone to overheat. Dell has no ability to make cases that can handle heat. I've already had one hard drive die because of this case. I've basically taken all the parts out of the dell and replaced the case, motherboard...
[July 4, 2005, 9:51]
Sony batteries recalled after laptops overheat
News Machine settings were adjusted more frequently than usual on one line from October 2004 to June 2005, and we believe that a combination of such adjustments may have affected the quality of cells in certain manufacturing lots, creating the...
[October 31, 2008, 8:22]
Lexar drives recalled over flash fire risk
News Digital memory manufacturer Lexar has voluntarily recalled two of its flash drive products after discovering that they could potentially overheat and harm users. The recalled JumpDrive FireFly and Secure II products could overheat, posing a risk of...
[July 7, 2006, 13:35]
US lawsuit targets Toshiba notebooks
News Toshiba has been hit with a class action lawsuit in the US that alleges some of the company's notebooks overheat and then don't work properly even after being fixed. The lawsuit alleges that the design of two Toshiba Pentium III notebooks -- the...
[August 9, 2002, 9:14]
Pioneer DVD drives are too hot to handle
News Pioneer Electronics said on Tuesday that its DVD rewritable drives can cause PCs or DVD players to overheat when recording on certain high-speed disks. If the drives or recorders remain frozen for longer than five minutes, the optical lens, which...
[September 18, 2002, 7:30]
HP recalls 135,000 laptops over fire alarm
News The problem lies in the battery packs, which can overheat and melt their plastic casings and, in a few cases, even catch fire. According to the CPSC, an "internal short can cause the battery cells to overheat and melt or char the plastic case...
[October 14, 2005, 13:50]
Safety scare over G4 batteries
News In a report filed with the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, the company said that it has identified a new crop of batteries that may have the potential to overheat. In both cases the computer maker said that an internal short in the batteries...
[May 23, 2005, 9:15]
Some Dell PowerEdge servers die after smoking
News Defective motherboards used in Dell's PowerEdge 1650 servers can cause the systems to overheat, bellow smoke and then die, according to the company. Dell said the problem occurs because certain motherboards have a faulty inductor -- a component...
[January 22, 2004, 15:10]
Overheats - finally cooked itself
Member Review Great when I first got it, then it started to overheat and shut down. Replaced hard drive and upgraded memory, only detected half that memory, then started to blue-screen all the time. Sounds like Dell have washed their hands of it and put it down...
[December 23, 2004, 11:10]
Apple warns on hot PowerBooks
News The Mac maker said in a statement issued with the US Consumer Product Safety Commission on Thursday that the batteries could overheat. Apple Computer is recalling about 28,000 batteries that shipped this year in its PowerBook G4 portable computers.
[August 20, 2004, 12:10]
Sony Vaio notebooks recalled due to overheating
News The notebooks may overheat and cause burns, the company said on Thursday. Sony is recalling around 438,000 Vaio TZ-series notebooks worldwide. According to a statement issued by Sony and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, the problem is...
[September 5, 2008, 8:48]
Get your facts straight
Talkback The issue here is poor design and inadequate cooling causing the motherboard to overheat and the computer to shut down, as well as parts having a shorter life span because of constant high temperatures.
[January 16, 2007, 15:59]
Apple iPad 2009 release
Talkback If they put out a thin oversized iPhone type device, that is fast, does not overheat, has a good battery life, and only a few operating system bugs on release the device will kick butt on the market. I owned a touch notebook, too bulky and no real...
[August 12, 2009, 1:16]
miniStat2
Downloads Control widget without mouse via hot-keys Very useful "desktop" mode - summarizes all statistics on one screen View your wireless mouse and keyboard batteries charge Autorun Dashboard - miniStat2 can help you to start Dashboard automatically after...
[October 28, 2007, 7:00]
Toshiba recalls batteries due to fire risk
News Computer manufacturer Toshiba has apparently become the latest vendor to recall laptop batteries because of concerns they may overheat. According to reports on Friday morning, Toshiba is recalling 830,000 laptop batteries.
[September 29, 2006, 13:05]
machine only lasted 3 years with light personal use. Motherboard died.
Member Review Also, machine would overheat and shut down. Machine worked well for about 1 year. Then battery life fell off sharply. Finally the motherboard died. Dell service sucks. Long waits, canned responses, was passed from dept.to dept.Dell doesn't stand...
[August 30, 2006, 15:38]
Apple recalls power adapters
News Apple Computer is recalling 570,000 power adapters used on some older PowerBook models after reports that the brick-shaped units can overheat, creating a potential fire hazard. The recall, issued on Friday, affects cords for the PowerBook G3...
[July 7, 2001, 15:14]
Shuts down due to overheating: DO NOT buy
Member Review Then I got REALLY pissed off when I found this is a KNOWN issue (just google inspiron 5100 overheat), and they played dumb. A couple days out of warranty, laptop would shut down after a couple of minutes of intensive CPU usage.
[September 12, 2005, 11:10]
Dead iPod syndrome - no volt found?
Talkback If you tried to draw 2.5A from a 2500mAh battery it would almost certainly overheat long before 1 hour. 1.mAh means that when you draw current at the recommended rate, usually 10% of the battery capacity (in this case 250mA) then the time before...
[January 18, 2004, 13:22]
Motorola backtracks on GPRS safety concerns
News Motorola marketing manager Rainer Lischetzki recently told New Scientist that implementing GPRS at the speeds its marketing division has hyped -- between 27Kbps and 86Kbps -- could cause a phone to overheat.
[October 27, 2000, 11:13]
