R40 (2723-3XU) mobo problems (ultrbay sometimes dead)?

[Phazer]

Hadn't really noticed this before, maybe because after I got everything loaded they way I like it, I haven't installed anything new.

I put a CD in the drive and it spins up and then nothing. I click on "my computer" and the CD and/or DVD doesn't show up. Check hardware and there's an exclamation mark beside the drive. Uninstall and reinstall the IDE driver and all seems good. Sitting there browsing the web and the "easy eject" tone goes off and the icon in the taskbar disappears. Pop the drive out, pop it back in and the "bay light" comes on and it spins up but isn't found in my computer, won't load a disc, and the tray icon isn't there. Pop in a floppy drive and it works like a champ, never disappears. By accident, I was lifting the right front corner about 1/4" and all of a sudden it finds the drive.

I've also noticed that once a month or so, I lose my wireless. Reboot and it just hangs on the window screen with the progress bar constantly moving. I discovered that if I pop the ultrbay drive out, it does a normal time boot. So my question, does this sound like a mobo? But why does it always find, (and never lose), a floppy drive, less power required?

[davemasonn]

That is where my R32 started about 3 years old, sometimes ultrabay not rcognized, lift machine and found right away. Then about a year later, intermitent video corruption, found on google that many laptops, noy just IBM had mobo flexing issues during the 2002 to 2004 timeframe. The solution for me was a mobo from a machine with broken LCD from ebay. I treat it much more careful now.