Acer Issue Aspire Aspire Safety Recall Due to Overheating Issues

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By way of a brief heads up, Acer has just issued a ‘voluntarily instituting a safety recall’ of  a number of specific Acer Aspire notebooks due to what Acer term as ‘overheating issues’ with specific reference to Aspire AS3410, AS3810T, AS3810TG, AS3810TZ and AS3810TZG notebooks manufactured prior to September 15 of this year.

Whilst Acer’s recall notice is rather brief, it does state that they have ‘voluntarily instituted a safety recall program to proactively replace the microphone cable in the affected units to eliminate any risk of overheating’ as, according to their notice, ‘he microphone cable may overheat when extreme pressure is applied repeatedly to the left palm rest’ which may lead to a malfunction resulting in the aforementioned overheating issues.

Acer state that, should your Aspire be one of the above mentioned models manufactured before September 15 ’09 you should locate your notebook’s serial number or SNID (the former being a a 22 digit alphanumeric code, the latter an 11 digit numeric code, both of which are printed on the white label on the bottom of your notebook – see image above) and enter the resulting serial number on a webpage Acer have set up specifically to deal with this issue which can be accessed here.