Has anyone gotten a burn from their laptop?

I have an HP laptop with a dual processor, and it gets really hot on the bottom. I went to bed one night about 10 days ago, and was exhausted from fighting an infection.

I pulled a sheet over me, and grabbed the laptop, opened it, and set it on my legs. I needed to check something before i went to sleep. I leaned back, and shut my eyes for just a moment. Next thing my alarm was going off.

My leg was sore from the laptop, it felt very warm. When I was getting in the shower, I had a raised area of skin with 2 blisters. I covered them, and when I got home from work, the blisters had enlarged to the size of my little finger.

I called the doc, and was told to use neosporin and keep it covered and don't break the blister. After 5 days the blister broke. I kept up with the neosporin, cleaning it and kept it covered. My leg got infected, I'll spare the gory details, got into the doc, had a temp, and they cleaned the burn, I didn't realize, it had gone into the muscle.

Gave me some anti-bacterial/antibiotic cream to use. I've been following the doc's instructions using the cream, and it's starting to heal. I'm still fighting it being infected. Have a doc appt. tomorrow.

I have 3 other laptops. Two are IBM's, and they get a little bit warm, but not hot, no problems. The other one is another HP, and it doesn't get hot, just warm.

My HP that burned me gets so hot, I can put it on the table, it has small legs so there is venting room, it has vents on the bottom to dissipate heat, but it gets so hot underneath, where the processor is, I can't touch it with my hand.

Now, I know I shouldn't have fallen asleep with it, so please don't tell me that, but then I feel it shouldn't be so damn hot that I would get a second degree burn from it.  I feel I should call HP, or a lawyer.

What do you all think? And, has anyone been burned by their laptops?

Sounds like a MALfunction to me... CALL HP and see what they have to say -- if they don't do something - then call a lawyer.... and see what HE has to say....

Hugs BD

Mine (also a HP dual core model) gets rather hot but I've never been burned.

The only other thing I can think of if the fan is running all the time is that maybe the CPU overclocking feature is is enabled in the bios?

If it is, try disabling the overclocking and see if it runs cooler.

Roland.

HP bioses usually don't have this option.
In addition the core2 based CPUs automatically slow down when they get too hot.
Looking at my laptop I rather think it has to do with the graphics chip.

Edited:
Forgot to add: Vista, due to "improved" graphics, seems to has its share.

Actually, this HP has Vita Ultimate 64 bit on it. I haven't had a chance to boot it yet, but I'll let you know... will be shortly.

I would do a little research and see if this is a chronic problem for this laptop.
Remember a couple years ago Dell batteries got so hot they caught fire?  I wonder if you laptop has sparked any fires.  I would definately call HP.

gizmo wrote on Sep 1^st, 2008 at 10:46am:


You are right, there is no overclocking in the bios, all I have is CPU C4 Function: Enable or Disable.

Thanks Roland for your help, you too gizmo.

Brian, I'll definitely  research this, plus I have the perfect guy in Newport to hire.

Paul, yer prob right. The battery on this only lasts for a couple hours anyway... But I don't plan on using it in bed again.

Since my laptop gets rather hot too I digged a bit deeper.
I found a thread in the HP Business Support Forums dealing with constantly operating fans.
The problem, at least with my model, was dust preventing proper ventilation.
So I removed the fan assembly (you can download the service manual from the HP web site) and cleaned it.
It worked. My laptop now stays cold AND quiet.

HTH
Oliver

purpleydog wrote on Sep 6^th, 2008 at 12:43pm:


Whatever the hell that means dont sound fun, it sounds painfull, id rather be cut than burned.

Healing vibes on the way!