X220 laptop boots, shuts down by itself

I recently bought an x220 laptop that I was told had a hard drive crash. Now that I'm trying to get it running with a new drive, I'm discovering far greater problems that may mean a bad motherboard, and I'd like to get opinions on them.
I had problems fitting the 7mm SSD drive into the bay, and when it was in the machine would not boot. Taking the rubber guides off the drive to make its assembly thinner solved that. I then was up in Win XP, doing fine, when after a while the machine just died, as if shot.
Even before that I was getting strange behavior. The machine would boot when the power cord was attached (a BIOS setting fixed that), but also if it was simply moved, such as being set on its edged or turned upside-down.
It seemed to be getting worse. I discovered that it behaved just a bit better with the SSD drive out, so I took it out and used the opportunity to flash the BIOS to the latest version, 1.34.
But the machine still has a mind of its own. It either boots by itself out of nowhere, even when unattended (LAN boot is turned off, btw), or it boots up and then suddenly dies, or it doesn't complete the boot process at all.
I don't believe heat has anything to do with the shutdowns, and certainly not with the self-starting.
I've never seen a machine do this, and am at a loss. A bad BIOS chip doesn't seem to cover all that's going on here. Maybe it's a bad power connection somewhere?
I'd like to get this working. I got it dirt cheap, so that's no problem. But it's a nice machine that I'd hate to give up on.
Thanks for any insight.

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Pop off the keyboard and palmrest and see if something is visibly loose. Put it back together, go into BIOS and reset to factory specs.
Install a version of Win7 to the ssd. If you don't have access to Win7, then go to Microsoft and download a demo version of Win8. Install that on the ssd. Are your problems fixed?

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