China Menaced by Exploding Monitor
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Aug 30, 2011 04:21 JST
- Tags: Accidents, Bizarre, China, Made in China, PC Hardware, Technology, Zhejiang
China’s world-beating manufacturing standards are once again under scrutiny after an exploding monitor incident, with the maker claiming that this is the first exploding monitor it has encountered “but there have been cases of the PCs themselves exploding.”
The PC, made in China, was owned by a 22-year-old woman, a resident of China’s Zhejiang province.
According to her report, she had just started up the PC and left her seat when she heard a loud bang, turned around and discovered the PC’s monitor to be crackling and spewing flaming fragments and smoke “like a volcano.”
She was unharmed by the explosion, but flames soon began to spread to her desk, curtains and wallpaper. Fortunately, her screams summoned a neighbour, who assisted her in extinguishing the flames.
Both computer and monitor are said to have been the products of the same manufacturer, bought in 2008. The monitor had apparently been defective from the start, but she used anyway, until May of 2011 when it became unusable and she had the maker replace it. The monitor was serviced with “official” parts and returned.
The manufacturer’s response is less than reassuring:
“This is the first time one of our monitors has exploded, although there have been cases of the PC itself exploding.”
Using a PC in China appears to be a rather fraught experience indeed.
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“This is the first time one of our monitors has exploded, although there have been cases of the PC itself exploding.”
And so they never looked into this o_O
Ah China never ceases to amaze me
Cheap power supplies I'd assume.
I had a cheap made in china power supply and last month it melted my mainboard, dont ask me how. I guess I will spent more money on hardware China products are pure shit.
Never skimp on the psu for your PC. Get yourself one of those high-end Corsair PSU with Seasonic OEMs which are, by the way, made in China. So China can have high grade stuff, only they are also more expensive, with other words you pay for what you get. But not everyone wants to pay more.
Legend has it a Chinese corporate spy stole the formula for the electrolyte in Nichin capacitors but the plans were missing the page that contained the stabilizer.
Instead of trying to engineer their own stabilizer they just went right into production.
lol, them openly admitting their computers blow up.
I witnessed two computers 'blow up.'
For one it was a capacitor that blew up rather violently, propulsing bits of itself everywhere. I didn't even know they could do that if you wanted them to.
For the other it was an optical disk which I assume had a bad balance. It was put in the disk drive, started to be read and suddenly it made a strident sound, and bam the drive exploded, cracked in half and smaller pieces.
Admittedly, the cases would have contained everything if they had been left put. Admittedly too, I cannot swear that wasn't chinese hardware.
exploding chairs, exploding toilets, exploding monitors lol china.
Seems legit
If she wasn't killed by the monitor, she will be killed by something else exploding perhaps? Dangerous country.
Spewing flaming fragments? Must've been a Fire-type PokeMonitor.
maybe she was browsing a hot webpage?
too hot for her pc...
What the fuck China, whats next, explosive censorship?
No, hate emails that blow themselves up when you read them as a form of self deletion.
China is the master of sabotage, just barely beating out William Shatner.
"The monitor had apparently been defective from the start, but she used anyway"
Women... I'm not surprised.
More like China. What can she do, take it back to the store? I've tried that...
"Do you have a receipt?"
"No, you said the machine was broken."
"You didn't get that at this store."
"I got it at THIS STORE, FROM YOU, YESTERDAY."
"Sorry, no receipt, no return. You could have got that anywhere!"
hmmm, good point
defective woman? :D
Perhaps, we'll have to keep any eye on her and see if she explodes.
only in China lol
“This is the first time one of our monitors has exploded, although there have been cases of the PC itself exploding.”
hahahahahahahaha that in itself is priceless china quality
surprisingly honest, that's a good sign actually, not China quality
Isn't there anything made in China that doesn't explode? It's like their products are made of explosive material!
The only things made in China that don't explode are their bombs.
lmao, good one
Why do china need to build bombs when everything else can do the same thing
Chinese soldiers: Fire in the hole!!
Enemy soldiers: Incoming watermelons!!!
How do you like them watermelons?
This is why the US is biased towards employing black personnel...
anon@7:44
i don't get...
It was horrible. People screamin'... Rinds everywhere...
Because black personnel would jump at the sight of watermelons, killing themselves and the US army losing personnel, amirite?
You know, I'm just going ahead and make a sexost joke.
"Woman trying to turn on a PC or China's manufaction geniuses?"
*Runs away*
In China EVERYTHING ends with a bang! Oh wait!
in russia u don't own p, pc owns u;but in china pc tries to kill u
the mythbusters are moving to china!
Along with Micheal Bay.
Maybe those implode?
dont be surprised if one day they came to nuke a country with a toilet...
give thanks they don't make underwear! of fire extinguishers, although i might be wrong, maybe there were no survivors to tell...
Well, I used to laugh at this sign, but now I'm not sure if I should keep that attitude...or not.
http://www.engrish.com/2008/08/if-the-flames-dont-get-ya-the-explosions-will/
Michael Bay will be so proud. Who needs The Cube when you have China.
Probably their bombs.
Those chinese people are a bit too proud of their gunpowder.
Living in China is like living on the edge, everything explodes.
China: The game.
... just recycled atomicwaste. *yawn*
which is why the americans had to get a missile defense network, because you never know where those chinese nukes would end up
They can't stop now. This is Bomb Country.
If this continues, it will be easier for China to determine the objects that explode by listing the objects that actually don't explode. ^^
Chinese Firewalls really are the best!
lmao