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On Oct 24, 11:24am, Paul Rubin wrote: > Subject: re: 760ed with 80 meg, and lockups > I've heard various reports of 760ED's locking up after several hours > of operation. This sounds to me like a *separate* problem from the > DIMM adapter sometimes not working when both slots are filled. The > lockups seem to be caused by overheating, and the newest 760ED's (with > the XGA screen) apparently have some kind of special thermal patch on > the bottom, possibly to deal with this problem. > > I'm really uncomfortable with the heat level of every recent > laptop I've used. I am really skeptical of their long term > reliability because of how hot they get. I'm typing this > on a 10+ year old Toshiba T1000SE with a 9.54 mhz 80c86. > It seems completely unlikely that my 755cx will last that long. >-- End of excerpt from Paul Rubin I hoped this is the case for other people who has this problem but unfortunately for me, the machine will lock up regardless of how long it's been on if I picked it up. It even refused to boot if I hold it at an angle and needed to have a flat surface in order to boot. It seems that the machine does not like altitude changes and I can't afford to give it a flight test (eventhough I'd love to do that). John Pham