Originally Posted by JakeRich
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Been done. Two Mugens failed for the other guy. Mugen reports that there is an error in ID Matching, whatever that means.I have tried two batteries, neillm (the other fellow) has tried 4 as of today. It doesn't seem to be the battery, although neillm is in conversation with Mugen about what the battery is reporting when he sent it back to them. There are errors on the battery, but they don't know if it is the battery or the 21x that is generating them.
My unit is mostly indoors, in airconditioned spaces, or in my air conditioned car, so humidity is not high. In any event, if it were a real short, then the rate of discharge would be so high that the battery would explode. The battery is rated at 2200 mAh, and it decays from 100% to 0% in one CPU cycle. At 624mhz, that's not much time, which means the heat generated would be phenomenal. Have you considered that the engineers may have intended that hole for air circulation into the battery chamber? Perhaps for cooling? Is taping it shut going to have unintended consequences?
As do those of us with the problems. So far I've heard from 5 people with the same symptoms. Some only had it happen once, but a couple are in the same boat with neillm and me. 
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Thank you for the additional detail. If I was you, I'd be really mad.
As clarification, I wasn't thinking that the short caused by inbound humidity shorted the battery (that would probably melt/explode the battery) but rather some other component. Granted, that's grasping at straws, but that's what I do best.:o
As for the potential problems with taping the headphone hole shut, I contacted HP Support and they say it's not an issue; the hole was
not left that way for cooling purposes.