Toshiba A210-1AO battery exploded in my laptop!!!!... Message contains an attachment

I cannot believe what happened to me this morning!!!! I got up, started my laptop and when i was about ti use it, by laptop started to smoke, battery melted down and it stinked a lot!!! I had to take battery and throw it outside the window while it was burning!! Charger also burned down, cannot believe it!!!

Laptop serial number: 18385148K

Model number: PSAELE-03Q009G3

Here are some pics that prove all of this!! What should i do now? I thing i should go to the media nad other forums

 

You need to thoroughly vent that area, the smoke released by the battery is extremely uhealthy. Don't touch it with your bare hands either, it's extremely toxic.

 

It might have not been the battery that started it in the first place. By the looks of it the PSU was first to go followed by battery.
If it was strictly a battery issue PSU would have been unharmed.

Still it's a nasty accident so make sure that you clean that up while wearing gloves and having previously ventilated the room- just like ALLurGroceries recommended.

Hard-drives are pretty resilient when it comes to power issues but that was a big one so while platters might not be damaged electronics of the HDD may have been.

 

thats pretty bad!!!

 

Hi,

Sorry for the battery, charger and for all the mess that came along.
It's known that a li-on battery can warm up and as result catch fire..

Next time, try to verify where you but the battery/adapter from...
Hope nothing happened to the laptop..

 

Yeah, you need to be careful with all the toxic chemicals and fumes

The model comes with an 120watt adaptor , any idea of the exact part number, as i have an 120watt one myself and it looks like the ac adaptor blew.

 

You need to contact Toshiba and let them know. I'm sure they have some sort of system by which they monitor serious incidents like that.

No joke, that was life threatening. The fumes and residue from lithium batteries is extremely toxic.

It's extremely unusual for a battery to ignite on discharge, as most lithium battery issues are during charging. For the power supply to also go indicates the issue was inside the laptop, so I'd say that something happened with the battery, or the control circuit, and that then caused both battery and charger to short out, heat up, and ignite.

Lithium batteries contain control circuits that protect against over-charging and short circuits, so if that failed, that could have been the cause. If it were intact, something would have had to physically burn the battery or heat it up very very quickly to ignite it. About the only other thing I can think of may be a dislodged CPU / GPU heat sink.