T42 wont boot at all! sos!

I have a T42 and i was on it earlier with the A/C adapter attached and once i plugged in my ipod to charge it, the computer went dead....no warnings or error messages. I tried to turn it back on and it does absolutely nothing. No lights, sounds or any type of reaction. Any ideas of what this could be?! please help!

use TPfancontrol (free download) and check what RPM your fan is running and what temperature your cpu is running at.
The slowness maybe due to overheating.
You can try to clean the heatsink by taking the keyboard off, and clean out the fan.
If that don't work, then you could replace the fan/heatsink unit, you can buy it from ebay.
Regards,
Jin Li
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