two hardware issues

Hi

I have an ACER Aspire One ZG5

Its running so gosh dang hot that it actually nearly burns my fingers when I touch the keys on the key board or touch pad. Fan sounds like its running.

A little history with this ZG5

When it was still under warranty, the Battery melted, as in green acid oozed out and burned a hole through my pants. Acer replaced the battery and kept the laptop for "quality testing".

The Acid damaged the power cord, so I had to hold it in a certain spot for it to actually provide the laptop power. The next problem was the laptop somehow stopped working with my replaced battery as if it wasn't there, that combined with the power cord made me almost get rid of the darned thing. I upgraded the bio on a prayer and got a new power cord.

Earlier this spring, I had issues with Video stuttering, sound playblack causing blue screens and freezing and a repeated sound like a CD skipping, and I got that solved. After a few months of suffering. the apparent answer was my DMA reverted to PIO mode.

My second Acer One problem is with a D250-1821 model, that my grandma owns, it has an issue where the screen only works if you hold the screen all the way back, applying pressure to the screen on the hinges. The external monitor out works fine.

I opened up that laptop and found that the cable that comes out of the monitor is still connected to the laptop solidly. I removed the cable, and the pins show no sign of damage, the solder to the connector looks okay. Is it work opening up the monitor? Has anyone else had this issue? I presume its a loose wire or connection, but I'm hesitant to try and open the monitor portion up.