Regarding broken mother boards and hard drives...

After reading different post on broken motherboards and hard drives a question came to my mind. It is related to my broken R40 and personal habits.

My R40 has a record of 1 broken hard drive and a half dead motherboard. And I think the cause is my habit to press (quite a lot) the palm rest with my elbow (when I am thinking or just bored ). The pressure is applied on the left side of the palm rest. I have examined my R40 many times, due to the motherboard problem. It looks like this pressure of my body was propagating through hard drive construction. At the end the motherboard was bent each time I was doing that (roughly on the left side, next to touchpad). Not too much, just few millimeters, but I guess it is enough to create some missing connection on the mother board (this is the current problem).

So my question is: are there more similar patterns of use and notebook failures (thought the construction might be different of the different notebooks)

 

This sounds exactly like what happened to my T42. It currently boots, but if you move the thing at all it instantly blue-screens. I think there is a cracked solder joint around exactly where you said - under the right palm rest by the HD. Of course all those solder connections are so tiny that finding the crack and fixing it would be very hard.

 

Or it could be one of the pins of these big BGA type chips like southbridge.