Nemu, Sick Again?

My laptop started acting up again today. This time, however, we’re seeing random screen corruption which can be altered in severity by slightly tapping the case. It seems to start after the machine has been running for an hour, and reboots do not correct the problem. I begin to suspect that Nemu’s fans aren’t turning as required to keep her adequately cool. While they usually remain still, I can’t hear them spinning at all, even after the machine warms up. The issue manifests itself even when the machine is cold. The corruption appears to be very sensitive to pressure on the left side of the case. She does not lock up when the screen glitches, so I was (thankfully) able to commit my last changes to the subversion repository before shutting her down. I took another trip down to the Sacred Store¹, where I’d bought that logicboard 6 months before. And the man² there said Huh. That’s interesting. I’ll take a look.. While she continues to chime, there’s no screen activity at all, nor does she appear to start enough to enter target disk³ mode.

1. That is, of course, to QD Mac Solutions in Windsor. ↩
2. Martti DeLaBarre ↩
3. Look, my laptop, she’s an expensive external firewire harddrive, with a built-in 802.11b wireless networking, full-size keyboard, touch trackpad, and malfunctioning 12″ active mode backlit lcd display. ↩