This eveninng my notebook screen went "fuzzy" and then it died. On restart it would run for about 2 minutes before hanging,
fuzzying or running really slowly. After cursing it, turning it upside-down and
threatening to bin it to no avail and thus proceeded to dismantle it.
Lessons
- Don't use a high powered vacuum cleaning unless you are prepared to rummage through other bits of "stuff" deap in the bowels of said vacuum cleaner in order to retrieve sucked-off keys.
- Pay attention to where the screws all came from - I have two left over.
- A battery can hurt when dropped on your foot.
The good news it has now been running for 10 minutes now - no fuzz, no hang and as a bonus my touch-pad is working for the first time in 2 years. I had thought it was a Linux driver problem and so had not paid any attention to possible hardware causes - in this case a disconnected touch-pad ribbon cable. Ah well explains the "software" in "software engineer".
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