Memory squish problem - my laptop shuts down whenever I put any sort of pressure on it. I plan on taking it apart and re-seating everything, but are there any helpful hints out there? The 'sensitive' spots are right of the mousepad, and the DIMM cover. IBM Thinkpad T41

Well whenever i take something apart all you got to do is three things... 1)Take your time don't try to get it done quick cuz theres always 1 hidden screw that will destroy everything if u miss it. 2) save all the parts, i find those magnetic bowls to be the best thing for screws... 3) this is the most important of them all, always take a break every now and again to realize that someone had to put it together so its not impossible to take apart you just gotta do everything they did expect backwards...

Try removing the seat post all the way and removing the squish tubing. Then put the post back in and see if you can adjust the seat low enough for you. You may have a bike with a frame that's too large for you, but I'm hoping that this will help. Good luck!

The laptop must be taken apart and cleaned, remove fan and heatsink get a can of compressed air attach straw, now give a good few blasts to the heatsink fins to remove the dirt including fan, Next get rubbing alcohol and clean the old thermal paste from the processor and heatsink, when finished apply fresh thermal compound to both items and assemble.

take out the battery, then take out the memory. Put one of the two memory modules back in, and turn it on. If everything looks ok, shut down and put the other one back and try again...if everything is ok...then ok. If it doesn't work after the first one, let me know...

Three reasons laptops get hot:

1) Dust - Dust inside the laptop, dust clogging the vents and fans, dust around the cpu and heatsink. Remedy - take laptop apart and use a can of compressed air to blow out the dust.

2) A Fan not working - Listen and see if your fan is working, Air should be pulled in through the vents. Remedy - take laptop apart and replace the fan.

3) The Thermal Paste around the CPU and Heatsink has either dried up or is too thin to keep the unit cool. Remedy - Take the laptop apart and put a fresh coat of Thermal Paste around the CPU and HeatSink.

You could purchase a Laptop Cooling Pad that the laptop sits on and it plugs into the usb ports to keep the laptop cool. Try Tiger Direct at:

http://www.tigerdirect.com

When the site comes up just type: Laptop Cooling Pad in the white search box at the top and click GO. Sort the returned results by Price Low to High.

Below is a link to one that I use when someone can't afford the expense or have the time to take the laptop apart. It costs $12.99

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1879782&CatId=3486

It may be that one of your RAM sticks is not seated properly in its holder.

Try unplugging the power cord, and removing the battery.

Then remove the cover plate on the underside of the laptop to reveal the RAM memory slots.

Unclip and remove your ram modules then put them right back in the same spot and make sure they are seated firmly and properly in their slots.

Now reboot the computer and see if that makes a difference.

It is also possible that one of your RAM sticks is faulty.

If you have more than one installed, try taking each one out in turn and booting the computer with just one ram stick installed. If the machine will never boot whenever one particular stick is installed, then that is probably just a bad stick of ram and you should just replace it with a new one.

Good luck.

I am having the same problem with my car seat. May be we need to contact Graco to see if they can correct this problem. There is no way of saving a child if there is an accident or fire. My fingers hurt from trying to unbuckle. This is insane. Graco needs to recall this seats!!!!!

Best way, Reinstall your XP OS then all problem will be sorted out.

thank you,

Honestly, it sounds as if the laptop has some sort of power issues as it shouldn't be creating static. If you are going to take it apart yourself, look for damage to all connectors, especially around the power connection as damage here could lead to greater problems down the road. Otherwise, I would recommend taking it to an Authorized HP Repair center.

-Backu

I have the same problem and I tried everything and finally I realised it was one of the two ram modules installed. I took it out and it didnt turn off anymore.  But then I installed a 1gb ram module from my other laptop and the computer started shutting off whenever I connected the power adapter so I think it might be the wrong memory but taking the bad chip out solved the problem