The consensus seems to be that the Lenovo board is a middling-range B550
AM4 board, so there are lots of options; people have reported success in
swapping it out for models from Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, and perhaps
others. I ordered a Gigabyte B550M DS3H AC AM4, which several people
said worked well -- the only drawback is that the connectors for the
gamer mod lights need extensions; since I don't care about the lights,
that was no bother. (Oh, and a CPU fan: somehow the Lenovo one doesn't
fit in the normal sockets.) Still waiting for that motherboard to come
in, but at least I swapped in another computer so I can get work done
until the MB arrives and I have time to do the swap.
Oddly enough, if on the ailing Lenovo Legion T5 26AMR the heat sensor
alarms are turned off, now the only sign that anything is awry is that
it won't hold the time/date. (It isn't the battery, which I've changed
twice; it's one of the common symptoms.) I check the internal
temperatures and they are fine; apparently the motherboard thinks that
the fans aren't working, but they certainly are -- I can see them
spinning. Go figure.
On 10/26/23 03:00, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
| From: Peter King via talk<talk@gtalug.org>
| Apparently the problems/errors/failures I reported are a known problem that
| Lenovo has refused to address:
|http://reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/ztvro4/lenovo_legion_5_t5_are_seemingly_bricked_with_no/
Wow! That's truly terrible. And very hard to understand how Lenovo
could let this bleed on.
Reading that, it makes me wonder if you could do a firmware update
every month to ward off the bug. But I cannot think of a rational
mechanism that would make that work.
Does the T5 victim community have a preferred replacement motherboard?
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