[ltp] ThinkPad 240: slight hardware woes

[Asheesh Laroia]

I bought my ThinkPad 240 a year ago, and it's a nice tiny system running 
Debian Sid.

Unfortunately, my battery life has been getting worse and worse, where now 
the LED goes from green to flashing orange in twenty minutes.  (I'm 
leaving it plugged in overnight to make sure it charges.)

Also, the casing for the moving LCD flap (you know, the top half of the 
laptop) is coming apart.  It's most apparent when the laptop is closed; it 
looks like there's a white gap in the right side.  (To help you visualize, 
imagine the top as a sandwich, with two slices of bread and an LCD board 
inside.  The slices of bread are coming apart, whereas they used to be 
attached.)

Finally, when I plug the AC adapter into the back, I frequently hear a 
high-pitched whine.  As I wiggle the adapter, it stops, though it 
sometimes starts whining again with no apparent intervention.  I believe 
the whine is from the power adapter because when it happens, the screen 
oscillates in intensity from plugged-in-mode-intensity to 
on-battery-intensity, and also because I put my ear to it and it sounds 
like it's from there.

Any advice on how to fix / treat these problems?  Better care advice seems 
relevant, but I really don't think I treated the system badly.  (Though 
perhaps that opinion is half the problem.)

-- Asheesh.

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