Flaming Notebook

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rupesh — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:52:42 GMT

i have dell optiplex gx270 model.every every evening i shut it down my system.when i come office in morning i saw system is already power on.how its possible without push power on switch on cpu system get on. pls tell me any suggetion

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Doug — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:25:56 GMT

This is an interesting thread although it is pretty old. A couple months ago I experienced a heating problem with my Inspiron laptop that was rather frightening, and fortunately it only happened once. When I left my shop to head home I closed the computer, put it in its carrying bag and left. When I got home and pulled the computer out to do some work with it, it was red-hot! Seriously. I could hardly touch it. What I did was opened it and put it in front of a fan, and eventually it cooled off. This was a really surprising thing to have happen as usually the notebook just goes into sleep mode when it's closed.

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Total Locker Service — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:37:52 GMT

I have a Dell Vostro 1700, it has developed 2 very bright spots on the screen, is this going to get worse

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expeseKisporn — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:23:09 GMT

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Kelvin — Sat, 03 May 2008 18:22:10 GMT

I'd been using Dell C400 for sometime now, and the heat really makes me worry. When I use the laptop with batteries everything is fine, but, when I start using the Laptop with the main power, it gets really hot. So hot, that it may burn my hand if I put my palm directly on the bottom surface. Of cause, not the mention when it is attached to the dock, the fan never stop and the dock heats up too. Just wanted to know why is this happening and is there anywhere for me to prevent this?

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bytedawg — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:57:59 GMT

As has been mentioned, Dell's laptops or other systems are not exclusive (Apple) to power problems as a catalyst to combustion or overheating. At least they are doing something about it and it doesn't appear any deaths have been reported, not so with the Ford cruise control issue where many people died due to the defective item that did not even require the vehicle to be on. And Ford was even ordered by the U.S. government to stop using this component. Did they? No. So Dell is doing, I think, a great job of dealing with an issue that probably was not of their own design.

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Danny — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:53:27 GMT

Great blog !

Congratulations !

cya

Danny

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Cheap laptops — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:08:09 GMT

Dell have had problems with over heating batteries and laptops just setting on fire but with recalls of these such laptops things seem to be under control, but it must make people wonder about buying products from dell but my answer to that is any manufacture and big names always have a flaw now and again. Dell are still one of the best suplliers on the market.

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Lionel_Menchaca — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 23:00:19 GMT

Ben: To respond to your comments about "multiple PowerEdge 1650 servers catch fire in the period of three months," I talked to the product teams for more background. The issue being referred to is from nearly three years ago and was proactively addressed with customers affected.

Dell determined that PowerEdge 1650 servers shipped between January 1, 2003 and May 6, 2003 may have contained a defective inductor, which is a component on the motherboard that converts voltages. The inductor failure was confined to the motherboard within the server enclosure and did not present a safety issue. In the unlikely event of a failure, a release of smoke occured prior to the system automatically shutting off. There were no reported incidents of servers catching on fire. Dell proactively contacted customers with potentially affected systems and offered a mother board repalcement or complete system replacement depending on the customer's warranty/need.

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Matt — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 15:51:53 GMT

where should i take the laptop for recall?