News – Sony Notebook Overheating Problem

July 29th, 2010 by admin

Over 500, 000 Sony Vaio C and F series laptop sold early this year are suffering a possible overheating problem. In Europe, the model number is VPCF11 and VPCCW2 series.However, this time, the overheating issue is not because of the notebook battery, but from the temperature indicator of the device. This might burns the plastic case of the laptop and there’s about 535000 VAIO users have the worry of using their notebook.Sony takes the PCs back not as much media earlier revealed, but asks owners of the notebook to do a BIOS firmware update particularly aimed at the overheating problem. Definitely, if you are not willing to take risk of updating the BIOS yourself, you can send the device back to Sony and let them do the job for you. Sony has made accessible to its users, a web site about where one can check if the model corresponds to VAIO notebook series indicated, as the series that have been affected.The incident is almost identical to an incident in 2008. At that time, Sony recalled the Sony laptop battery back, and offered a free inspection for fixing the overheating risk.In 2006, Sony batteries, which are in many laptops from other brands such as Lenovo, Toshiba, Acer and Apple, received long-term negative review due to overheat or even explode.There is nearly millions of Sony batteries in whole were recalled back at that time.

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