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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]
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]
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]
Event-Driven Thermal Management In SMP Systems
White Papers Multiprocessor systems, however, offer the possibility of moving the task which caused a CPU to overheat away to some other, cooler CPU, so throttling becomes only a last resort taken if all of a system's processors are hot.
[April 18, 2007, 1:00]
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]
Choosing A Fan That Best Fits Your Application
White Papers Without a proper cooling mechanism, a system can overheat and malfunction. To meet the consumer's ever-increasing demand for faster, more advanced technology, design engineers are creating systems that maximize power while minimizing space.
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
The Ideal Green UPS
White Papers Such harmonic currents disturb the voltage quality on the power line which in turn may cause sensitive equipment to malfunction, power factor controlling capacitor banks to explode as well as distribution transformers to overheat.
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
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]
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]
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]
News Burst: Motorola Backtracks On GPRS Health 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, 9:00]
Lenovo Recalls 205,000 ThinkPad Batteries
News Lenovo has confirmed that notebook computers containing the recalled battery packs may overheat, posing a potential safety hazard to users if the battery pack experiences a strong external impact," said the company in a statement released on...
[March 1, 2007, 14:51]
Dell Mounts Global Notebook Recall
News The flaw resides in the battery packaging and can cause the notebooks to overheat, sources said. Dell Computer will recall about 284,000 notebook batteries due to a flaw that has caused at least one notebook to catch fire, CNET News.com has learned.
[May 3, 2001, 9:02]
Dell Recalls 27,000 Notebook Batteries
News There is a "remote possibility" that affected batteries can generate electrical shorts and overheat, potentially to the point of causing smoke or flames, according to Dell. Dell Computer announced Friday that it is recalling 27,000 batteries...
[October 13, 2000, 14:54]
First Tests: Mobile P4 Slower Than PIII?
News Despite Intel's assertion that the desktop version of the Pentium 4 processor would quickly drain battery life and could overheat, some manufacturers decided not to wait for the mobile part. Intel's Pentium 4 processor, which launched on Monday, is...
[March 5, 2002, 17:48]
