Strange R40 problem

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Benedict · #1 Post by **Benedict** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 11:50 am

My R40 started acting up today. Some times it would freeze completely, and if I lightly press on the area to the left of the touch pad it would unfreeze itself. And sometimes I have to keep pressing on it to keep it working, or else it would freeze as soon as I let go.

I thought maybe the hard drive connection is loose, so I took the hard drive out and plug it back in again. But the problem didn't go away.

Does anyone know what going on, and possibly lead me to a fix?

Thanks.

pjm99au · #2 Post by **pjm99au** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 4:34 am

Could be your ram card(s), you could try reseating them.

scottmoon · #3 Post by **scottmoon** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 5:10 pm

I got exactly the same problem.
As you descibe the way how I use my laptop now.

"keep pressing the left palm area to make it work"

And more information, if you leave it as freezing, it will reboot itself after several seconds and usally I will get "keyboard error".
(I aso got one time "Fan error", several times "NTLSD is missing" error)

I doubt it's some guy on the motherboard get loose
Or....HD is messed up.

Anyone have any clue to this?

Looooooot of thanks!!

mETz · #4 Post by **mETz** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 2:22 pm

I'm suffering from the same problem since ~ July 2006, haven't used my beloved R40 (2722) much since then. Did anybody here open the R40 and have a look if there's some visible damage?
I don't really want to buy a motherboard or another used R40 just to have the same trouble one year later.

Terrahawk · #5 Post by **Terrahawk** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 2:25 pm

Sounds like it could be a hard drive fault. Sometimes, when there is a hard drive error or when Windows has trouble reading parts of the hard drive, it hangs the whole system until it can read what it wants. It's similar to when the hard drive goes to sleep and suddenly it wakes up - everything stops until it's spun up and going again.

You could try reseating the hard drive connections (i.e. pull it out and put it back in) and see if that helps.

mETz · #6 Post by **mETz** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 2:36 pm

Nope, it even does that without a hdd or cdrom (ultrabay ceased to work for even longer, another well known problem for this series).
The best test on this machine is trying keyboard input like using caps lock to see if you can toggle the led. Putting pressure on the case right beside the touchpad makes caps lock work again.

Strange R40 problem

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