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IBM To Repair Smoking Monitors

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the well-isn't-that-nice-of-them dept.

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.

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  1. Quite old by rirugrat · · Score: 4, Informative

    The 6541 model of IBM monitors are quite old since they were manufactured from June 1997 - September 1997. It's amazing that they still work. Our company used to purchase Acer 34 and 76 monitors and they all failed within 3 years.

    And only 5 reported failures? In almost 6 years? That doesn't sound too bad to me...

    Chris

  2. More than 56,000 by EinarH · · Score: 5, Informative
    From the IBM-site. :
    Between 1997 and 1999, a total of approximately 700,000 G51 series monitors were manufactured for IBM in Malaysia and China by LiteOn Technology International, Inc. Approximately 117,000 monitors that could potentially include this component were shipped worldwide, and about 56,000 were sold in the U.S.

    They are withdrawing all the 117,000:

    If you live outside of the US, click here. for a list of phone numbers to contact a repair center.

    [rant]
    It's only the US-centric slashdot, who want us Europeans to burn... ;-)[/rant]

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  3. Re:Somewhat OT...but... by Tim+Macinta · · Score: 4, Informative
    We had a developer who was coding on a Dell Latitude w/ Dell's huge (and expandable) C/Dock-II... 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.
    Heh heh... and that's not the only thing from dell caught smoking.
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  4. Re:MMmm! by tomhudson · · Score: 3, Informative
    If you notice, the monitors were made under subcontract by the same company that made/used the exploding capacitors that have caused so much motherboard/poer supply grief lately.

    Probably not a coincidence :-(