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.

Comments

Smoking monitors?!

[gpinzone]

Will we be seeing those lame "truth" ads lambasting IBM and their nicotine laced monitors? Oh wait...

Will IBM refund my life ?

[borgdows]

My IBM monitors has burned last year, the fire has spread in my house, burning everything, including my wife and my 4-year son who were sleeping!
I'll never buy something from IBM until they refund ME!

Re:fire?

[Gojira Shipi-Taro]

Not in the Dinosaur Pen in a company I interned for about 6 years ago. They had Ops in the pen most of the time (apparently because the PC and MAC servers were in with the big iron) and an alarm system. When I was given the tour, I was told "if this goes off, you have X amount of time to get out the door, or you're dead, because the room will fill up with Halon."

Posted signs all over the place gave the same information. Signs in the NOC outside the Dino Pen indicated that if the alarm went off, get the hell out of the way of the door, because people would shortly be hauling ass through it.

Re:related news...

[Gojira Shipi-Taro]

That's just silly. Everone knows IBM replaced their standards-compliant "mirrors" with proprietary "light-reflective image replication" devices that plug into the MCA bus back in the late '80's.