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IBM To Repair Smoking Monitors
Rio writes "A local6.com story says IBM is recalling to repair 56,000 G51 and G51t computer monitors because the circuit board can overheat and smoke, posing a fire hazard. IBM has received several reports of monitors overheating and smoking, including one report of minor property damage, according to the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Comission." And I thought all that smoke was just my mobo overheating.
I'd like one of those monitors! I'll find myself some dremel and a steel girder to create the first monitor/grill combo ever! Steak anyone?
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"IBM G51: The hottest monitor available!"
Hmm, maybe it wasn't the pyro after all, maybe Great White just set-up some IBM monitors in the back...
When right next to the article on the monitors, is this:
Man Who Allegedly Ate Cat's Tail Ruled Insane
and
Thousands Flock To See Gold Toilets
As long as they go outside to do it, I don't care.
Can't they just *cough* *cough* patch it?
*cough*
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First IBM hard drives, now IBM monitors. What's next to kick the bucket?
. . . from components they popped off of returned deskstars.
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Do those smoking monitors have to be used outside in California?
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Maybe IBM should rethink its business focus. Perhaps they should manufacture baseboard heaters, toaster overs, wave solder baths...
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IBM has received several reports of monitors overheating and smoking
sounds like these monitors just bought themselves a first-class ticket to detention. They should have smoked in the bathroom where nobody would see them.
I blame the parents.
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All this time I thought it was my bikini models screensaver that was smokin'.
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AOL Member: My monitor seems to be smoking. ...uh ...tells you, by olfactory cues, how fast your internet connection is. [co-workers dying of laughter in background, turning blue] We just upgraded our network, so that's probably what you're seei ...er, smelling, sir.
Customer Support: Oh. Err... [looking at breakroom longingly] Is that an IBM monitor you have there, sir?
AOL Member: Why yes, it is.
Customer Support: Well, then that would be the new Smell-sation monitor feature, sir. It
AOL Member: Oh, wonderful! Thank you! [click]
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It's supposed to be completely automatic, but actually you have to press this button.
There was something simliar with smoking hardware that happened where I work--
We had a developer who was coding on a Dell Latitude w/ Dell's huge (and expandable) C/Dock-II. For those who don't know what that is, it's basically an expandable dock with which you can add PCI cards, SCSI, etc..
Anyway, the dock started smoking one day during his coding session. I just happened to be walking by and quickly unplugged it from the wall. Apparently a small capacitor inside the dock exploded and got all over everything, causing it to smoke.
We told the developer that because his code was so ineffecient, his compile had melted the dock.
He believed us! har har...
-brain
Just make sure you don't leave your weed next to the monitor. It may mysteriously disappear. If the monitor starts acting funny, you may not want to believe the excuse that its just degaussing itself. If you notice that there is a lot of red in the picture, or a glazed over look in your screen, your monitor could very well be a pot smoker.
In that case, hey, let the monitor smoke, you may notice improvements when playing games.
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Hey buddy, IBM isn't the one who put the can of gas and the matches in your hand.
The IBM monitors that shipped with IBM PS/2 computers in the late 1980's were notorious for bursting into flame. Flames would shoot out of the monitor's vents at the top of the case. One morning I found one had charred the top of its case overnight. Luckily it burned itself out without tripping the office sprinklers. THAT would have been more exciting.
Which reminds me of the sick joke I dreamed up for our IT boss at that job. We were thinking of calling him up on his honeymoon vacation, and saying, "Don't worry about the fire in the data center. The sprinklers put it out!"
Around that time I was interviewing at a 100% "True Blue" IBM shop. I mentioned that the new IBM monitors are known to burst into flame. The response was, "Oh yes, the monitors do often catch on fire. But then IBM replaces them for free under warranty!"
IBM's immediate response was to send adhesive labels for the monitors that advised powering them off when not in use. New monitors came with the sticker pre-applied at the factory.
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And I thought all that smoke was just my mobo overheating.
Well that makes you look pretty stupid, doesn't it?
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I put it on the patch, it said it would try. I think it'd be a breach of trust to send it back.
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That reminds me of the best coincidence I ever ran across. At my first job, we were developing a desktop environment for DOS (file manager, various utilities, etc). This was in Southern California in 1990.
One of the project managers was testing the calculator and did something to get an overflow error. At that moment, the Whittier quake happened. The PM filed a bug report: "Arithmetic overflow in calculator causes earthquake." The bug stayed open until just before shipping, when it was closed as "Cannot reproduce."
What if life is just a side effect of some other process and God has no idea we exist?