Sony VAIO Overheating Issue
Over 500, 000 Sony Vaio C and F series laptop sold early 2010 are suffering a possible overheating problem. In Europe, the model no . is VPCF11 and VPCCW2 series.About 535,000 units of VAIO notebooks may overheat, after discovering an error associated with temperature indicator. The overheat could cause melting & burns the plastic case. Sony takes the PCs back not as much media earlier reported, but asks owners of the laptop to do a BIOS firmware update specially aimed at the overheating problem. Of course, customers do have the choice of returning the laptop to Sony to handle the work.Sony has made available 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.This is not the first time overheating problem on Sony laptops. In 2008, a similar incident happened because of the battery issue and Sony announced to take all the Sony VAIO battery back.If tracking back to 2006, we may find that there were battery overheating cases and even explode from lenovo, toshiba and apple macbook batteries manufactured by Sony.At that time, a huge amount of Sony laptop batteries were recalled back.
