what would cause a laptop to freeze when moved?

[Pciber]

i have an asus l8400 laptop (old p3 thing)... when i move it (like from my desk to my bed)... it freezes. sometimes it can be the slightest of movements, other times it can take a decent amount of shaking to freeze. I replaced the hard drive and it did the same thing.. borrowed another with a friend (since both i had were ibm travel-death-stars), still did the same thing... i can't think of any other part that would really matter, except the cdrom, but there is no disk in the drive. what do you guys think? what part could cause this?


oh, and i know this isn't the sff/notebooks forum, but off topic is much more populated and interesting.

 

[KLin]

This isn't the sff/notebooks forum.

 

[gsaldivar]

Maybe a loose connection inside is shorting, causing the system to freeze when it it moved.

Some older laptops lacked the capability to switch from battery to AC power on-the-fly, so if you have it plugged in and it shaking causes the AC to wiggle loose, that may be enough to cause either a power-off or freeze.

And yea, this will probably get locked. :beer:

 

[Pciber]

Originally posted by: KLin
This isn't the sff/notebooks forum.

oh, and i know this isn't the sff/notebooks forum, but off topic is much more populated and interesting.

notice how the original post isn't edited? kthx.

 

[neutralizer]

Originally posted by: gsaldivar
Maybe a loose connection inside is shorting, causing the system to freeze when it it moved.

Some older laptops lacked the capability to switch from battery to AC power on-the-fly, so if you have it plugged in and it shaking causes the AC to wiggle loose, that may be enough to cause either a power-off or freeze.

And yea, this will probably get locked. :beer:

WTF. my dell 600m does that.