HP has announced the recall of a certain type of Laptop battery that has proven defective and may ignite on use due to overheat.
The type of battery is placed on the models: HP Pavillion, HP Compaq, Compaq Presario and HP. the affected batches of Laptops are the ones manufactured between June 2007 and July 2008. In case you have a laptop qualifing on the categories above you are advised to deliver it to a HP representative for a battery replacement.
