compaq Presario V6000 battery

After two reports of flaming laptop batteries, the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced Thursday that Hewlett-Packard is voluntarily recalling 70,000 lithium-ion batteries that shipped with several models of compaq Presario V6000 battery .

The recall affects nine models of HP Pavilions, nine models of Compaq Presarios, two models of HPs, and one  Compaq laptop model sold between August 2007 and March 2008. For the full list, see the compaq Presario V3000 battery.

Compaq is instructing consumers who may be part of the recall to remove the battery from their notebook and contact  to find out if theirs is affected. HP says it will provide a free replacement battery. For more information, see  compaq Presario R3000 battery.

Calif.-based HP is the world's largest computer vendor, and like many of its peers in the industry has been part of several similar battery recalls. The most recent incident involved compaq Presario M2000 Battery late last year.

There were two separate reports of batteries that "overheated and ruptured, resulting in flames/fire that caused minor property damage" but no injuries, according to the CPSC report. compaq Tablet PC TC1000 Battery the affected batteries in its laptops. But that was tiny by comparison to .