A little off topic...

[Tapas Mishra]

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 8:03 AM, C. F. Howlett <seattlechaz at gmail.com> wrote:
> My previous laptop exhibited almost those exact symptoms.  Found out too
> late that the spring holding the pcmcia cover in the closed position had
> shifted.  The spring was causing an intermittent but deadly electrical
> arc with the motherboard which eventually killed the computer.
>
>
I am catching up with this thread a bit late can you explain the issue
or give a link to where you previously have done it.