pictures of exploding laptop causing Dell image problems

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Here's a case of "no, duh?". (it's free registration to the link
below.)

Dell's Exploding Computer and Other Image Problems - New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/10/technology/10dell.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=login

Also the exploding laptops aren't all due to battery problems,
sometimes they're due to overheating CPU's too.

INQUIRER story prompts Dell share warning
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32931
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In case anybody missed my last post on this, to get the full effect,
there's a couple of videos here of exploding Li-ion batteries:
http://www.edn.com/article/CA514947.html

Note they seem to using a codec which M$ blocks from playing over a network
so you'll have to DL them first.
 
YKhan said:
Here's a case of "no, duh?". (it's free registration to the link below.)
Click to expand...
Dell's Exploding Computer and Other Image Problems - New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/10/technology/10dell.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=login
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Old news.
Also the exploding laptops aren't all due to battery problems,
sometimes they're due to overheating CPU's too.
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They dont EXPLODE due to overheating CPUs.
INQUIRER story prompts Dell share warning
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32931
Click to expand...

Whoopy do.
 
:
: Whoopy do.

Oh lucky us here at c.s.i.p.h.c. "Rod Speed," the head troll over at
c.s.i.p.h.storage is now hanging around here and dropping his usual,
clueless posts. Time to adjust the Kill File again, I suppose. <sigh>

j.
 
Also the exploding laptops aren't all due to battery problems,
sometimes they're due to overheating CPU's too.
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Really? That seems a bit dramatic for an overheating CPU. Do you
have any links to pics or stories?

max
 
max said:
Really? That seems a bit dramatic for an overheating CPU. Do you
have any links to pics or stories?
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Read the original message, the links are in there.

Yousuf Khan
 
Read the original message, the links are in there.
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The closest reference I can find is this:

"Dell said that it found no pattern of battery failure and that the
Pennsylvania incident publicised by the INQ Web site was caused by a
chip problem and not batteries."

A chip problem isn't the same as an overheating CPU. It could be, but
it could be any of a variety of other chips too, such as power
management devices. It's hard to imagine an overheating CPU causing a
laptop to burst into flames as dramatically as that one did, but I'd
be interested in finding out more.

Do you have any links to actual CPU overheating?

max
 
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