Introducing Ibm-fiend

Hey to all!! I'm 27 from Brooklyn NY. Ive recently purchased one domain with the intention of building it into a car site but have not even put anything on it yet. I have three ibm laptops and one dell laptop all older than me. Just kidding! But theyre all about 6 years old. Recently my t23 has been freezing at different points of boot. I found a thread on here that suggest that the issue is a magnet on the hard drive. But I checked these and found them to all be very good. Today I noticed that it freezes when I apply pressure to the area around the harddrive. i exposed this area, turned on the laptop and still cant pinpoint the problem. any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance

virus (or) hardware problems! i will try to answer