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I bow to your experience. I must be mistaken then in my belief that there's a thermal cutoff that immediately kills the system long before the smoke would start coming out.

Just today I dealt with two machines that were killing themselves suddenly for thermal reasons, a desktop with a dead CPU fan and a laptop we think the heat sink has become loose.

Replaced the fan in the desktop and it runs like new now, i.e. no smoke, no permanent damage.

I would have thought in this case it must have been a real battery failure.

Though I absolutely agree the media jumps overboard with the fear-factor in such cases.
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