These Recalls Don’t Need ...

Yet another big recall by a major PC OEM is in the works. More than 400,000 Sony notebooks are being recalled because of the potential for burns. Apparently, overheating and short-circuiting in several Sony VAIO TZ models is caused by “irregularly positioned wires near the notebook’s hinge or possibly a dislodged screw inside the hinge.

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That’s a big number of PCs and a multi-million dollar hit to earnings. More maddening, there is little reason for such things to happen. Stress testing with accurate diagnostics such as those from PC-Doctor is very efficacious in bubbling up intermittent problems, and could have helped Sony identify the issue in the design or factory phases.

Users can also call the VAIO TZ customer hotline at 1-888-526-6219 to determine if their notebook is affected.