Problems with friend's T42 laptop

Hi everyone,
my friend has given me her Daughter's T42 laptop (Pentium M 1.7ghz and 2GB of RAM, Running Vista Business) to have a look at, as it is acting very oddly.
The laptop will boot up, and everything is fine, then all of a sudden, the screen will go black. I tried hooking it up to a monitor and could see the laptop's display for a while, then that went black, as well.
It even did the same thing when I went to click on something in Windows, after leaving it running for ten minutes. If you leave it for a while, the screen works again, but not for very long. I did notice that the laptop is running a generic GFX driver. Could this be the problem?
Many thanks in advance : )

Maybe that in Safe mode has gpu less to do - it makes less heat, and then it reaches longer time working. Problem of these T4xs is that gpu during the time losts contact with mobo (board isn't well protected from flexing). When your T42 runs in normal mode, gpu has more things to do, and of course produces more heat. And when you are moving your heated notebook, flexing motherboard causes problems in connection between gpu and the rest of mobo. And in final are the pins as bad, as it shows us blank screen and -no-responding- notebook.
I've finally checked my idea by playing some music. When screen blanked, music stopped too - it shows us, that it is not any kind of only display problem, but an heavy issue. Sorry, your mobo needs to be replaced. Or maybe rather buy a new laptop (T61 with integrated GPU).
And if may I offer you a temporary solution:
1) do not move with your laptop when necessary
2) eject your ultrabay accessorie - notebook is better cooled inside (it helped me well)
3) when screen again goes blank, make a high (but no enormous!) pressure on the keyboard in place of keys "V, B and spacebar. GPU is under them, and making a pressure on it may a little improve the contact between it and the mobo (you know when the pins are hot, it is possible to attach them and improve the broken contacts - but it is only my idea - I've done it few times, and the result is sporadic :-) )
I hope that I helped you! And again very sorry for my english level)))
Skrble

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