W520 Win 8.1 - Would freeze up off dock

TIme fly's when you are having fun. I love my two year old W520:
Intel Core i7-2760QM
2 Samsung 520 256g SSD in Raid 0
1 Samsung 530 1t SSD msata
I took up MS with their $30 Win 8 upgrade, and subsequent 8.1. I do miss the power management utility that Win 7 had, but I'm good with the Win 8.1 thing ( except for that **bleep** kb2919355 that log jammed my windows update for a few weeks, but was able to get it to update).
Everything worked great at my dock, but when I removed it, to use it on my lap (it is a laptop, right?), It would freeze up. The pointer pad would not respond, and the trak pointer would still be able to point, but clicking on things would give me no response. Powercycle was the only way back.
I dreaded a reload from scratch ordeal, and I was stumped, after searching online. What in the world was the issue?
I tried turning on and off peripherals, and suspected my intel video driver. No luck.
In the course of troubleshooting, I pulled the W520 off the dock, and placed it on my desk. It worked fine. I then picked up the laptop and placed it on my lap. Crash and burn. What the hell? Is there something loose in the unit?
Poke and hope, and then I saw the icon on the control panel for “Lenono – Airbag Protection”, I saw that it was enabled with the highest setting for Shock Detection Sensitivity….
I disabled it, and guess what?
I now have a laptop that can be used as a laptop, and I didn’t have to try a dreadful OS / system reload!
I hope this story may help somebody out there!

Yup, SSD's don't need the Airbag Protection app like the older HD's. That was the first thing I uninstalled when I upgraded my W520 to SSD.
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