More than half a million Sony laptops are at risk of fire

Sony has just officially confirmed more than half a million laptops that the company sold since early 2010 have now made software errors that may cause the product to overheat .

Among the products that have been sold to the market since January 2010, there have been 39 incidents of Vaio F and Vaio C series laptops arising incidents and being notified to Sony manufacturers. According to its announcement, the error was detected in the system's temperature management software in the BIOS and asked the user to upgrade or bring the device to Sony service centers for manufacturers to update the software for free. charge.

Also in its announcement, Sony said the error appeared at about 535,000 laptops, but the manufacturer asked 646,000 customers to quickly update the BIOS of the device to avoid serious problems. Explain why there are an additional 111,000 customers who are 'favored' even though their computers are not in the group of potential problems, Sony said, these models are also 'very sensitive'. with some other less serious errors in system management software (BIOS).

These errors are included in products sold in the Japanese market and the world market.

Product lines with BIOS errors have code :

VPCF119FJ / BI,

VPCF118FJ / W,

VPCF117FJ / W,

VPCCW29FJ / W,

VPCCW28FJ / P,

VPCCW28FJ / R,

VPCCW28FJ / W,

VPCF11AFJ,

VPCF11AGJ,

VPCF11AHJ,

VPCF11ZHJ,

VPCCW2AFJ,

VPCCW2AHJ

The product has code

VPCCW25FG / B

VPCCW25FG / P

VPCCW25FG / W

Being consumed in foreign markets also made the same mistake.

BIOS is a system software that is indispensable in any kind of computer, has the function of controlling some of the most basic features of the computer and adding the role of linking, interacting between the main components of the machine.