W520 crashing/s​hutting down with minor shaking and moving.

Hi All,
I got the w520 at my job about a month ago, and so far I really love the performance and stability that it provides, but I am having a minor issue (which I feel could become major at any time).
The laptop will completely crash/shut down with very minor moving and shaking. I'm not one to flail my laptop around like a maniac, but I'm talking about switching positions while working in my bed, or simply carrying the laptop from room to room.
There's a related issue which I think has been documented here and that's the fact that video playback stops or stutters, while the laptop is being moved. I feel like the two issues are related, one is just a more extreme version of the other. 
There's a few things (i believe) I've ruled out:
I thought it might be related to the HDD protection, so I disabled it. The problem still persists, however. Maybe I'm not doing it right, or maybe there's some way to disengage the HD sensors even further, so any guidance would be great.
The battery on this laptop is a bit loose (also documented on the forums). I at first thought this had to be the issue, since the first couple of times it happened it was while moving my laptop around my house (on battery power). I have since discovered that the issue happens while connected to the power supply as well. Also the threads on here regarding the battery seem to all indicate that the slight looseness is not enough to displace the contacts to a point where the laptop would lose its power source.
I've read through most of the SSS thread, which seems to be the biggest on here and a widely known issue with w520 owners. I believe my problem is different in that the laptop doesn't randomly shut down while idling, or shuts down at all for that matter, it just crashes. I just see a flair of pixels (sort of like a glitch on an old nintendo console) and then it's gone. It all happens in less than a second so it's become hard for me to capture it in action, but I'm more than happy to post a video if that would help. More importantly,, the issue I've seen can be repeated consistently and by following exactly the same steps, which are: 1. move/shake laptop a little bit -- 2. Lose all your work cause your laptop is now off.
The issue happens whether or not I have already booted, which leads me to believe it might be hardware rather than software. In other words, I've seen it happen while working in Windows, on the Windows login screen, and on the Thinkpad BIOS screens.
Any help here would be greatly appreciated. I plan on getting on the phone with Lenovo tech support sometime this week, but if it's something that I can quickly fix with guidance from you guys, that would be ideal
Thanks!

Let me guess, the laptop only shuts down when rubbed against something? And you have two or more ram modules? You should be able to cause the same shut down by rubbing the bottom of the laptop with a blanket. The shut down is caused by static electricity. 
The issue is faulty shielding on the ram bay door, leaving it ungrounded and prone to static pickup.  Luckily the fix is quick and easy. All you need to do is remove the ram bay door, bend the shielding tabs up so they make better contact with the laptop body, and reinstall it. 

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