{"id":79441,"date":"2015-08-02T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=79441"},"modified":"2015-08-02T10:21:56","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T08:21:56","slug":"nvidia-recall-8-inch-shield-tablet-its-a-fire-hazard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/79441-nvidia-recall-8-inch-shield-tablet-its-a-fire-hazard","title":{"rendered":"NVIDIA recall 8-inch Shield Tablet: it’s a fire hazard"},"content":{"rendered":"

NVIDIA has decided, rather appropriately we might add, to recall their 8-inch Shield Tablet<\/a> because they may just start a fire.<\/p>\n

Apparently, one of the batteries in use in a particular batch of tablets is prone to overheating and, eventually, becoming a fire hazard.<\/p>\n

You might think that NVIDIA is just being proactive, lawsuits being what they are these days, but there are already reports of damage due to overheating.<\/p>\n

According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission<\/a>, four reports have been filed thus far:<\/p>\n

“NVIDIA has received four reports of batteries overheating due to thermal runaway, including two reports of damage to flooring.<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

As a result, a voluntary recall is in effect, the details of which are available at this dedicated website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There’s a lot of information regarding the recall, how to identify a potentially faulty unit and what to do should you discover a faulty unit.<\/p>\n

The just of it is, if you navigate to the Settings<\/strong> app on your tablet and select the About<\/strong> tablet<\/strong> option, selecting Status<\/strong> thereafter, you’ll be able to see your Battery<\/strong> status.<\/p>\n

If your battery is titled “B01<\/strong>“, your unit is unaffected<\/strong>. If it’s “Y01<\/strong>“, for “yes, it’s going to burn your house down”, then you unit is affected<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"NVIDIA<\/a><\/p>\n

So far, in the U.S. and Canada, around 88, 000 tablets have been recalled. The arson-inclined batch was sold between July 2014 and July 2015, so the chances of someone in South Africa getting a hold of an affected unit is remote \u2013 the tablets are only just appearing locally.<\/p>\n

That said, if you own one, you might as well check. You don’t want to have happen to you what happened to the owner of that RV<\/a> when his Wii went rogue.<\/p>\n

No other NVIDIA devices are affected by the fault, so there really isn’t any need to panic… unless you smell smoke. Then panicking seems appropriate.<\/p>\n

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In other news<\/strong><\/h3>\n

U.S. building first Exascale Supercomputer: that\u2019s 514,033 PS4s<\/a><\/p>\n

Intel Core i7-6700k is faster than 6 core i7-5820K in gaming benchmarks<\/a><\/p>\n

Microsoft is encouraging the theft of their Xbox One glasses<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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