HP on 21-May, afternoons raised the range of its battery recall program to incorporate 54,000 additional notebooks. The replacement generally wraps older dv2000, dv6000, dv9000 and Compaq movables prepared between August 2007 and July 2008.

It goes after HP established 38 more information of batteries catching fire, 11 of which imposed “minor personal injury” on the consumers.

The PC designers had by now recalled 70,000 batteries approximately exactly a year before for related troubles. Neither is consideration associated to the worldwide recall of Sony batteries that encouraged most major computer companies to remember large numbers of their possessed systems.

Anybody affected has been inquired to discontinue utilizing the batteries and ought to obtain a free stand- in the mail.

[Via Electronista]