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HP Recalls More Laptops For 'Fire and Burn Hazards' (cnet.com)
The US Product and Safety Commission just announced HP's "battery safety" recall of about 78,500 laptops for what the UPSC calls "fire and burn hazards." From a report: HP initiated the recall in January 2018, and expanded it in January 2019, but the news hadn't widely circulated because of the US government shutdown -- the UPSC finally posted the news to its site on Tuesday with the explanation "NOTE: This recall expansion was previously announced independently on January 17, 2019 by the firm due to US government furlough." This is part of a continuing series of battery recalls from HP. The January 28 recall was for about 51,000 models, but 41,000 were recalled in June 2016 and 100,000 in January 2017, bringing the total for the past 2.5 years to almost a quarter of a million.
Look no further: HP Notebook Computer and Mobile Workstation Battery Safety Recall and Replacement Program
From what I can tell, all affected models have internal batteries. Hope affected users have a spare computer they can use in the mean time, I guess.
There is no XUL, only WebExtensions...
There's no UPSC, it's the US CPSC. HTH, HAND.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
...the "exploding laptop market".
"Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff."
Neither has replaceable battery. I guess I could always use my test Panasonic Tough Pad if both laptops burn up.
Anonymous comments are as pathetic as the anonymous "sources" that contaminate gutless journalism from the New York Time
You could try 'reflowing' the GPU on your 2011 MacBook Pro to resurrect is. It's not a guarantee to work, of course, but since it's currently unusable there's not really much to lose. For those wondering what reflowing entails, it basically means you heat up the GPU chip on the motherboard by using either a hot air gun (can find them for really cheap on Ebay) or if you want to get fancy there are also dedicated reflow 'stations' that are a bit more for the professional market.
These GPU's typically fail not because the chip goes bad, but because the chips solder ball joints crack and come loose from the motherboard due to thermal stress from normal use and poor airflow design. Reflowing melts the solder on the chip and causes it to rejoin with the board. I've fixed several laptops that had nothing but a black screen on boot, as well as several PS3's this way. The worst part is you have to dissasemble the unit down to the motherboard so you can have access to the GPU, but iFixit's site has really easy to follow teardown guides if you are interested.
So my computer doubles as a grill? Time for a grilled cheese sandwich!
Those slits on the bottom aren't for air flow, they're for grill lines.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
Many processors have invalid instructions that fall into the "halt and catch fire" instruction category (i.e., infinite loop or processor lockup).
Hey Chris! I just watched your last video and it is as boring as all the others.
Chris has a new video? Sweet!
As usual, I learned zero from watching it since you repeat yourself over and over and don't seem to know much.
That's because you're stupid. For example, you keep calling me Chris when I'm not Chris.
Actually, I copied and pasted that from the Original CDR to TROLL YOU. Geez... You're so stupid.
If I was Chris, wouldn't I have posted links to the new video all over Slashdot? I haven't seen any such links.
Remember how you lusted after CaptainDork before I came along?
Stupid fuck.