Acer Aspire 5102WLMi keys and touchpad problem

Hello guys,

Just joined the Forum, but I´ve been looking into it for some time now.

I´ve bought an 5102WLMi in last december 2006. Worked just fine, for almost exactly three months, when, after a very strange system crash - the screen went light blue with horizontal stripes and wouldn´t turn on again for a while - the keys and the touchpad were dead. The notebook turned on just normal, but there were no way to make the keys and the touchpad to work - or a USB mouse, for that matter.

Took it to authorized service and had to pay for a new motherboard - it is a refurbished notebook, and the MoBo was almost half the original price... Since I live in Brazil, the MoBo took almost four long months to arrive. Well, it´s not a month since I´ve got it back, and the exactly same problem happened. The system crashed - the screen didn´t turned blue with horizontal lines this time - after that it didn´t turn on and, when it did, the keys and the mouse were dead again.

Had someone experienced some problem like that? Any suggestions or information that might help me?

In both occasions, after the crash, I´ve noticed a very strong heat in the area just bellow the keyboard, on the left side. Is there a chance for my notebook to ever work just fine? So far, the authorized service had it around more than I did...

I´ve read in the thread that someone had problems using it in a position that is not perfectly horizontal. I use my notebook over a CoolerMaster NotePal W1 cooler, which has a light inclination to it - in order to improve the ergonomy. Could that be the cause of my problem?

Any info that might help me, I´ll be thankfull.