Well, in a strange twist, I managed to repair the laptop while looking at the connections. It looks like the guy who did the warranty repair removed a thermal pad and didn't put it back. I stuck a spare one I had in and the laptop is running fine. It turns out it's a 2.4ghz with 256mb of ram. Maybe now I'll just put 1 gig of ram in it (about $30 for this kind) and let the misses use it for facebook and such. Odd that I didn't figure out what was wrong with it when I had it taken apart 3 years ago. But in my defense, a missing thermal pad isn't obvious. Now what to do about that CNC PC with no monitor.