[URGENT] Hewlett-Packard Voluntary Worldwide Laptop Battery Safety Recall [URGENT]

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On June 14, 2016 HP announced a worldwide voluntary safety recall and replacement program in cooperation with various government regulatory agencies, for certain notebook computer batteries. The affected batteries were shipped with specific HP, Compaq, HP ProBook, HP ENVY, Compaq Presario, and HP Pavilion Notebook Computers sold worldwide from March 2013 through August 2015, and/or were sold as accessories or spares, or provided as replacements through Support. These batteries have the potential to overheat, posing a fire and burn hazard to customers.

Because these batteries pose a fire and burn hazard, it is extremely important for customers to check whether their batteries are affected, and to cease use of affected batteries immediately. Customers may continue to use their notebook computer without the battery installed, by connecting the notebook to external power.

HP’s primary concern is for the safety of our customers. HP is proactively notifying customers, and will provide a replacement battery for each verified, eligible battery, at no cost. For customers with 10 or more potentially affected batteries, HP has put in place a process to assist with the validation and ordering process.

1. You can download the HP Battery Program Validation Utility (Requires .NET 4.5 framework and HP software framework to be installed in order for utility to function)
2. Or you can Manually Validate Your Battery using Serial/Battery Bar Code.

More Information/Download Utility/Validate/Source https://h30686.www3.hp.com/

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Not all batteries in all HP, Compaq, HP ProBook, HP ENVY, Compaq Presario, and HP Pavilion Notebook Computers are affected
● HP Compaq: CQ45 (B), CQ58 (B)
● HP ENVY: dv6 (G)
● HP Pavilion: 14 (S), 15 (S), 17 (S), g4 (S), g6 (S), g7 (S)
● HP: 240, 245, 246, 250 G1, 255 G2, 450, 455, 650, 655, 1000 (B), 2000 (B)
● HP ProBook: 440 G0, 440 G1, 445 G1, 450 G0, 450 G1, 455 G1, 470 G0, 470 G1, 470 G2, 4440s, 4441s, 4445s, 4446s, 4540s, 4545s

The above models were shipped with affected batteries with barcodes, starting with the following prefixes
● 6BZLU
● 6CGFK
● 6CGFQ
● 6CZMB
● 6DEMA
● 6DEMH
● 6DGAL
● 6EBVA

Source http://www.neowin.net/news/hp-announces-...ety-recall

[Mike]

Thanks for the info ran the utility and my laptop battery was not affected. If you want to confirm whether or not your laptop is affected, you can download a utility to perform an automatic validation.