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 Post subject: Anyone else have a dell laptop
PostPosted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 4:26 pm 
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Looks like i gotta waste 15 mins of my life to take care of this little problem

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Dell Inc. on Monday recalled 4.1 million Sony-manufactured laptop batteries, saying they could overheat and pose a fire risk.

The Dell-branded lithium-ion batteries were provided as service replacements by the Round Rock, Texas, computer maker, or included with laptops from April 1, 2004 through July 18, 2006.

Dell announced the recall in cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. The agency said it was the largest computer-related recall in its history, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The recalled batteries were made by a unit of Sony Corp. They were sold with the following Dell notebook computers: the Dell Latitude D410, D500, D505, D510, D520, D600, D610, D620, D800, and D810; the Inspiron 6000, 8500, 8600, 9100, 9200, 9300, 500m, 510m, 600m, 6400, E1505, 700m, 710m, 9400, and E1705; and the Dell Precision M20, M60, M70 and M90 mobile workstations; and XPS, XPS Gen2, XPS M170 and XPS M1710.


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PostPosted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 5:37 pm 
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holy SHIT ten seconds before i read this i got off the phone with my dad. He told me to go get his laptop (a dell) and read the serial number on the battery. It wasn't one of them. Still creepy though
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 7:42 pm 
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When I first read this I thought it applied to me... last night I shut down my dell laptop and went to bed and it woke me up like 30 min later making all these weird ass noises and turns out it didnt even shut down but it was stuck in the process. I hope my dad's isn't but I can't check since we had to send it to Geek Squad. Man that would suck if it blew up during a conference or on one of the geeks
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 7:55 pm 
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like 40% of my company has dell laptops


so be happy this only wastes 15 minutes of your life because its about to waste the next two weeks of mine haha.

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 8:08 pm 
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I never liked Dell maybe they are run differently in the UK but as far as I'm concerned Dell is a byword for shoddy overmarketed underwhelming hardware packages that even sometimes have keyboards without commas or full stops like the one im using now therefore am talking in a very long sentence which gramatically speaking i can't end

oh well

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 11:54 am 
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/15/technology/15battery.html?ex=1155873600&en=59bf846656c5bfaf&ei=5087%0A



this man got a laptop from dell, and look what it did to his car lol
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 11:58 am 
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That laptop fucked his shit up bad lol

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 11:59 am 
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lol @ the caption on the page

"A Dell notebook computer in Thomas Forqueran’s pickup truck caught fire in July, igniting ammunition in the glove box and then the gas tanks. "

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:29 am 
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Dell Lattitude D810 - Thats my laptop

Lets just say im glad for this recall..................................................................



My laptop battery was always HOOOOOOTTTTTT. And now i get to check 800 laptops at work - weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:21 am 
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OMG haha I thought Mikey was just BSing with that picture. Clicked the link and it's real. O.o

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Anybody notice the name of the company that made the batteries? Oh, hi Sony.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:15 pm 
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That same month, a Dell notebook in the cab of a pickup parked alongside Lake Mead in Nevada caught fire, igniting ammunition in the glove box and then the gas tanks. The truck exploded.

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Oh, hi Sony.


Its not a flaw Reinheld, its a feature.

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Was talking to the folks who took the two seconds to read the article. I'll help you though.

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Dell, the world’s largest PC maker, said the lithium-ion batteries were made by Sony and were installed in notebooks sold from April 2004 to July 18 of this year.


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Dell has reported to the safety agency that it documented six instances since December in which notebooks overheated or caught on fire. None of the incidents caused injuries or death. Dell said the problems were a result of a manufacturing defect in batteries made by Sony.

The safety agency said the batteries’ problems were not unique to Dell, meaning that other companies using Sony batteries might also have to issue recalls. Sony has sold its batteries to most of the major computer makers.
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Your MS Paint thing doesn't make sense Mikey.

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Dmitry wrote:
Your MS Paint thing doesn't make sense Mikey.


I was sort of thinking the same thing lol
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Faulty PS3s will be fashioned into bombs for the fighting in middle east.

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Faulty PS3s will be fashioned into bombs for the fighting in middle east.


Ah, thanks for clearing that up Cad :P

I think he was just trying to be funny after Rein mentioned it was the Sony batteries.

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meh I have XPS M170 so I will make the phone call to be sure its not my lappy being a Time-firebomb lol.

update: 2 batt is what I have and both of them are ok. so I am safe.

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