Presario 1500 Problem

Presario 1500US
WinXP Home SP2

My brother has a laptop which ran fine until his daughter dropped it.

Now, every once in a while, it will black out - the computer shuts off
and pressing the power will not restart it. Usually it's nothing more
than a slight movement that causes the black out. (pressing a key too
hard, shifting or moving the laptop)

When he took it to the shop, they told him there was nothing wrong
with it, and that there may be a crack on the motherboard that's
causing the problem when it gets hot. He says removing and
reinstalling some of the components (RAM/HDD/NIC) will usually get it
working again. Other times, shaking it does the trick.

I tried it last night from cold start, booted up, logged in and placed
a flash drive in a usb slot. After copying a single file over, I
removed the flash drive (using the "It's OK to safely remove it now"
feature in XP) and the laptop promptly went black. It hadn't even been
on for more than a few minutes.

Any ideas?

Jim
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