[GTALUG] Repair & Replace

[Peter King via talk]

I have a Lenovo Legion T5 desktop (tower configuration) with Ryzen 9 cpu, which has given me all sorts of trouble over the past year and a half; it's already been sent back to Lenovo once after the power supply / motherboard went completely dead, and in the months since it intermittently locks up when I fire up X.  Well, just a few days ago with no warning it froze at boot with the message 000135 that *all* of its internal fans had failed (!); a reboot got that down to only the CPU fan failed; when I told it to ignore that the computer finally booted up and runs sort of okay.  By "sort of" I mean that the CMOS memory seems wonky: it won't keep track of the date or time.  Plus it still sometimes locks up when I start X.  Google -- mostly Reddit -- tells me that the fan problem is probably a BIOS/motherboard issue, apparently common in this model after about a year.  Some people claim a BIOS update fixes it, most people say it doesn't, and BIOS update for Lenovo products under Linux are a pain.

Any common wisdom about who might be good for this job? Thanks!

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I could send it back to Lenovo.  Again.  But I am inclined to just replace the motherboard instead, to swap out the proprietary Lenovo 3716 MB for something else.  According to Reddit again, the Gigabyte B550M is pretty much a drop-in replacement, though you need to add a CPU fan.  I don't know how to verify that it will work, though. But more importantly: I am way too busy right now to do the replacement myself.  So, does anyone have any recommendations for good reliable computer repair work, someone or some company I can just take this to and tell them to do it?  I am located in the Junction.  I used to use A2Z Computers, which was great, but that business didn't make it through the pandemic.  I suppose I could take it to Canada Computers or someplace like that, but I though their work was only just adequate and priced high at that.

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