Acer Issue Aspire Aspire Safety Recall Due to Overheating Issues Aspire Aspire AS3410, AS3810T, AS3810TG, AS3810TZ & AS3810TZG

By way of a brief heads up, Acer has just issued a �voluntarily
instituting a safety recall of ย 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.