- Dec 2, 2010
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Last night, while running updates for the software and OS on my old Aspire One D250, smoke started coming out the vents. A heat blister appeared on the bezel, quickly becoming a small hole.
I swiftly unplugged the AC power, and ripped out the battery. After consulting a service manual for instructions on taking the thing apart (it's well out of warranty I'm sure), I found the burn centered above the wireless network card, where the antenna leads meet the card itself.
What would cause this to happen? And why now? If it's a manufacturing defect, surely it would have happened years ago, right? I've never had a system actually melt before.
I swiftly unplugged the AC power, and ripped out the battery. After consulting a service manual for instructions on taking the thing apart (it's well out of warranty I'm sure), I found the burn centered above the wireless network card, where the antenna leads meet the card itself.
What would cause this to happen? And why now? If it's a manufacturing defect, surely it would have happened years ago, right? I've never had a system actually melt before.
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