Man saves laptop from battery blaze

• nightzip

  26 Sep 06, 14:08

  Man saves laptop from battery blaze
  
  By Reg Hardware
  25th September 2006 14:27 GMT
  
  An HP notebook was left damaged but not destroyed last week when it became the latest laptop to suffer a battery meltdown - the hasty removal of the power cell prevented a notebook fire like the one that took out a Lenovo ThinkPad two weeks ago. This time the incendiary incident was captured on video.
  
  According to witnesses, the notebook began to emit smoke, at which point the clearly asbestos-fingered owner pulled out the smoking power cell and punted it outside into his firm's parking lot. Just in time: the battery caught fire almost immediately.
  
  
  
  
  
  It's clear from the pictures the battery must have reached temperatures high enough to melt and scorch the laptop's battery bay.
  
  
  
  For that reason, we'd never recommend removing an smoking battery. Quite apart from what the heat could do to your hand, here's what happened to the battery after it was removed:
  
  You wouldn't want you hands on that...
  
  It's unclear what make of battery was fitted into the HP laptop, and whether it was the original HP-supplied power cell or a third-party add-in. In April this year, HP asked 15,700 customers to return their notebook batteries, which posed a fire risk. ®
  
  For the exciting video,
  http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/09/25/man_saves_laptop/
• Lord_Of_Hayan

  2 Oct 06, 21:00

  Wtf....i also using HP....
• alexkusu

  2 Oct 06, 21:03

  im using compaq
• ndmmxiaomayi

  2 Oct 06, 21:04

  Wait... is HP recalling batteries or has already recalled batteries?
• M©+square

  2 Oct 06, 21:04

  Doing well Acer. Well Done.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  2 Oct 06, 21:05

  Originally posted by alexkusu:

  im using compaq

  Cool.... Compaq under HP now...
• ndmmxiaomayi

  2 Oct 06, 21:05

  Originally posted by M©+square:

  Doing well Acer. Well Done.

  X2.
  
  OK, this means I'm stuck to Acer unless something happens.
• alexkusu

  2 Oct 06, 21:07

  Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:

  Cool.... Compaq under HP now...

  i oso just reformat leh..
  
  how..
  
  maybe just wait till it explode n ask for a replacement
• ndmmxiaomayi

  2 Oct 06, 21:08

  Originally posted by alexkusu:

  i oso just reformat leh..
  
  how..
  
  maybe just wait till it explode n ask for a replacement

  Explode liao how to ask for replacement?
  
  Anyway, no news from HP side yet. Guess they will announce it in a few days' time.
• M©+square

  2 Oct 06, 21:22

  Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:

  X2.
  
  OK, this means I'm stuck to Acer unless something happens.

  Ehh......no news is good news lahhhhh
• alexkusu

  2 Oct 06, 21:23

  Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:

  Explode liao how to ask for replacement?
  
  Anyway, no news from HP side yet. Guess they will announce it in a few days' time.

  if explode is their fault wor...rite
• ndmmxiaomayi

  2 Oct 06, 21:29

  Originally posted by alexkusu:

  if explode is their fault wor...rite

  Ya... but don't think they will give you new laptop...
• ndmmxiaomayi

  2 Oct 06, 21:31

  Originally posted by M©+square:

  Ehh......no news is good news lahhhhh

  Hope so.
  
  Looks like Taiwan brands seem to escape it. Asus, Gigabyte and Acer no news yet.
• alexkusu

  2 Oct 06, 21:32

  Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:

  Ya... but don't think they will give you new laptop...