by SpidersWeb on Sun Jul 01, 2012 11:13 pm
I'm not a pro for laptop repair, but if pressing the board fixes it sometimes then that'd indicate cracked SMD joins to me.
I fixed a Toshiba TE2200 (which were chronic for it) a few months back with the 'press here and it might work' issue, just ran a soldering iron down the suspect joins.
On these it was the connector between the motherboard and the power duaghterboard.
I'm not sure on your location, but did you get it from Trash palace? I spotted a few Thinkpads down there.
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