Your battery not on recall list? CHECK AGAIN!!

My Inspiron 6000 battery was *not* on the recall list some months ago when I
checked.

So I figured that was that.

Then yesterday my battery started WAY overheating the right front corner of
my notebook, even with it powered off (but plugged in). *So I checked
online* , *and bingo, it is now on the recall list*.

CHECK AGAIN guys.

Two further things:

1. If my notebook was dammaged in any way from the overheating of this
thing, is there any recourse?

2. If the dammage isn't immediately obvious, is there any way in the future
to show that it was compromised by gross overheating? It wasn't more than
half a day of fireball hot.

Thing is out of my notebook now, of course, and I'm just plugged into the
wall for now.

"Thomas G. Marshall" <. com>
wrote in message news:cR1qi.6413$Gs4.4720@trndny05...
>
> My Inspiron 6000 battery was *not* on the recall list some months ago when
> I checked.
>
> So I figured that was that.
>
> Then yesterday my battery started WAY overheating the right front corner
> of my notebook, even with it powered off (but plugged in). *So I checked
> online* , *and bingo, it is now on the recall list*.
>
> CHECK AGAIN guys.
>
> Two further things:
>
> 1. If my notebook was dammaged in any way from the overheating of this
> thing, is there any recourse?
>
> 2. If the dammage isn't immediately obvious, is there any way in the
> future to show that it was compromised by gross overheating? It wasn't
> more than half a day of fireball hot.
>
> Thing is out of my notebook now, of course, and I'm just plugged into the
> wall for now.

2b. I want to point out that the reason I'm concerned about longer term
dammage is that the power light was flickering in a very odd way.
Yellow/off/green/off/green <----all randomly and quickly. That spooks me a
little.

Hi!

> > CHECK AGAIN guys.

My batteries are still clean per the site, but thanks for the reminder. One
never knows with these things. Only the modular bay battery is a Sony unit,
and it stays out of the laptop most of the time. The others are Sanyo,
Panasonic and a cheap-o Chinese-made battery that calls itself a
"Sonyisgood". All three work fine, even the cheap one.

> > 1. If my notebook was dammaged in any way from the overheating of
> > this thing, is there any recourse?

You'll probably have to discuss that with Dell, as it is probably handled on
a case-by-case basis. I've read in various news stories that people whose
Dell laptops blew up did sometimes get a replacement system.

My personal opinion (worth what you paid to hear it... ;-)) is that you
wouldn't...but if you want to try, go right ahead.


> 2b. I want to point out that the reason I'm concerned about longer term
> dammage is that the power light was flickering in a very odd way.
> Yellow/off/green/off/green <----all randomly and quickly. That spooks me
a
> little.

Since the system works, I doubt any lasting damage was done. It is very good
that you were attentive to the condition of your battery...that probably
saved your system and improved your day a lot. The strange behavior from the
power light was likely due to the bad battery.

William

Thomas G. Marshall wrote:
> My Inspiron 6000 battery was *not* on the recall list some months ago when I
> checked.
>
> So I figured that was that.
>
> Then yesterday my battery started WAY overheating the right front corner of
> my notebook, even with it powered off (but plugged in). *So I checked
> online* , *and bingo, it is now on the recall list*.
>
> CHECK AGAIN guys.
>
> Two further things:
>
> 1. If my notebook was dammaged in any way from the overheating of this
> thing, is there any recourse?
>
> 2. If the dammage isn't immediately obvious, is there any way in the future
> to show that it was compromised by gross overheating? It wasn't more than
> half a day of fireball hot.
>
> Thing is out of my notebook now, of course, and I'm just plugged into the
> wall for now.
>
>
>
Good advice. I had one Dell D610 that came up as not being on the recall
list. We checked again later and it was there....

--

Regards,
Hank Arnold
Microsoft MVP
Windows Server - Directory Services