| My dad's IO has worked well for about a year, just starting exhibiting the problem recently. He's tried disconnecting/reconnecting all cables, etc, and from what he tells me it does not seem like a connector problem (hard to tell without some hands-on,though). I don't think the unit is going to sleep -- what the describes is that after a 1/2 hour powered-down, unplugged rest, the IO will boot and he can get a few minutes use out of it before it checks out -- first by ceasing to respond to mouse clicks and then by a greyed-out screen.
I've been looking over the many posts in the technical areas regarding adding a small 5-v fan. This is kind of looking like a likely line of action. Regarding the onset of the problem, though: it is realistic that the heat-conductive foam between the CPU and the heatsink would degrade after a year, and that onset of symptoms would be fairly sudden ? The sudden onset does make we wonder if the overheating scenario is it ....
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