Thinkpad

Hey guys, as the title says my laptop's (Thinkpad L460) battery is behaving in a weird way, it's discharging from 100% to 6% when unplugged, normally, it lasts for 3 hours at least, but then it's stuck on 6% and keeps working despite "your battery is running low" notification for 2-3 hours more...

1) Lenovo Thinkbook 14 G6 with Ryzen 7 7730U or Ryzen 5 7530U or Core i7-13700H 2) Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 5 with Ryzen 7 7730U or Ryzen 5 7530U 3) HP Pavilion Plus 14 with Core i5-13500H 4) HP ProBook 440 G10 with Core i5-1335U 5) Asus Zenbook 14 with Ryzen 7 7730U or Ryzen 5 7530U 6) Acer...

For a couple of months my Lenovo ThinkPad E15 Gen 3 AMD (with Ryzen 5800U & soldered 8G & 1x so-dimm ddr4, AMI UEFI firmware) seems to work really fine like before, except for one fact that it takes over 30 seconds to launch my bootloader (systemd-boot menu of Arch Linux, if that matters). The...

I'd like to get an old T480 as close to PC Master Race mode as possible, and I want to know what creative ideas you have for doing that. And I'd like to know the best NVMe SSD for it. 1. Is it worth getting Gen4? That is, does the controller for PCIe only support Gen3, or something like that...

So in the late 2000's, my grandma worked for IBM. She got me a laptop and the thing was a beast. I want one again I just need help identifying it from deep in my memory. I will try to describe it and hopefully you guys can help me find out what model it was. It had to be around 2008-2012 when...

the laptop is thinkpad l380 yoga, i bought it second hand and it slow down when plugged in. when i play tekken 7 on battery cpu goes upto 3ghz, but while charging it only goes 0.4ghz sometimes 1ghz but it still below cpu baseclock. is it need hardware change or can i do something with the...

I've been meaning to buy a used Thinkpad T480/T480s for a while because of its build quality, user serviceability, ubiquity, price, keyboard, and etc., but I've kept hesitating due to one issue: Its thunderbolt/USB-C firmware. From my understanding of it, apparently there's a bug in the...

I have this Lenovo Thinkpad X12, my boss bought it after I told them that I can erase supervisor password, thinking I can solve it easily. I don t find any information on the internet, I found a few posts with old models of Thinkpad, where you need to do something on the motherboard. Someone...

Hi all, I'm thinking about buying the Lenovo Thinkpad P15v Gen 3 mobile workstation as our new company computers. (with slightly different specs) CPU: Intel® Core™ i9-12900H GPU: NVIDIA® RTX™ A2000 Notebook-GPU 4 GB GDDR6 RAM: 32 GB DDR5 4800 MHz (1 x 32 GB SODIMM) We mostly use our...

Hello! My CPU Fan started rattling and vibrating so I took it out in order to take a look. The Fan was pretty clean already but I cleaned it again, I applied some thermal paste and now when I try to open the laptop, "Fan error" shows up, I can only continue by pressing "ESC" and by agreeing to...

I want to perform a restore to the factory settings of my ThinkPad P51. When pressing the F11 key I am seeing the text "Loading Recovery....." but it always ends up firing Windows. Any idea why? Or if there is an alternative way? I read about the Lenovo OneKey feature but it doesn't seem to...

I have 8 GB 3200 Mhz ddr4 ram soldered in my ThinkPad gen 2 AMD Ryzen 5 laptop. Machine info: Thinkpad E14 20T6 I checked in CPU-Z and it shows channel # 1x 64-bit. Can someone tell me if should I buy 8 GB single channel or 16 GB single channel or 16 GB dual channel? I have one empty slot and...

Good afternoon! I've just gotten a new Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 2 as a working laptop from my employer, and I cannot understand how to detect an external monitor with discrete graphics. Could you help me, please? The situation is the following: The laptop has 2 GPUs: integrated Intel Graphics...

ThinkPad keyboards just aren't what they used to be. I have been testing out laptop keyboards at local shops the the past couple of weeks and am not really finding any decent keyboards. For the most part all of these modern keyboards feel like junky slivers of plastic attached to flimsy mini...

Unfortunately water spilled on my reliable ThinkPad wired keyboard (USB type "A") with trackpoint Sk-8855 which I have been using for 10+ years and now may of the keys don't work - even after drying out the keyboard for one week! I understand that the keyboard uses keys from a T420 series...

Guys I have a T430 with 8GB RAM and i5-3320M 2.6Ghz cpu. Battery’s dead and there’s a newer BIOS version but I can’t update it without battery. It was very slow and stuck every time I run a heavy software like visual studio. It is having windows 10 pro and I recently noticed that it limits the...

1. What is your budget? $1,500-$2,000 2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? 15" to 16" 3. What screen resolution do you want? 1080p or better 4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop? It doesn't need to be thin and light but it does have to be compact...

As the title suggests, which laptop model supports linux better? pls leave a comment below if u know. btw i am thinking to buy a used thinkpad t470. what are your opinions?

I am planning to by a thinkpad T15p gen 2 (11800h,gtx 1650) mostly for my auto cad course and also to play emulators like rpcs3 Xenia etc, so I was wondering how the performance was and if the thermals are any good as it has only one fan and will the plastic build affect longevity? ( I could not...

Total budget and country of purchase: About 5000 Moroccan dirhams (mad) but if there is some crazy deal out there I can stretch it up to 8000 mad. (1$ = 8.92 mad) I am not so sure any of these laptops that were listed to me are good deals so i am also open to any suggestions. I used the...

Hi guys! I was wandering if it is possible to upgrade the cpu on my ThinkPad S440. There is a i5-4200U currently. I found that the CPU is soldered on the MB, so if it was possible to change the whole motherborad, that would be also great. Do you think there are options to upgrade? Thank you...

I am looking for a cpu upgrade for the Lenovo IBM Thinkpad T61p. Is the socket and the chipset compatible with the Intel Core 2 Duo E8435(thats my preference) if not with the Intel Core 2 Duo E8335, if not with the Intel Core 2 Extreme X9100, if not with the Intel Core 2 Extreme X9000 and if...

The problem looks like this: If I turn on the laptop and try to connect the charger, the power button just keeps flashing and the battery is draining. But if I connect the charger first while the laptop is off and power it on, then the battery is charging just fine under windows 10. If I...

I have an older Thinkpad T540p laptop running Windows 7, whom I like very much. It works very well and has never failed on me. I'd like to upgrade the OS to Win 10. The problem is, I have tons of data and software there: programs, Steam games, GOG games, other stuff. I really, really wouldn't...

Hi I have just upgraded my Lenovo Thinkpad W510 4391-BY7 to SSD, model ADATA SU750 SSD. When I tired to install Windows on it, I got error "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure the disk's controller is enabled in the...

My current laptop is a Lenovo Thinkpad E470 (20H2 model) ( i7 7500u). With the announcement of Windows 11, I was stumped to find out that one of the hard floor requirements of the new OS was a Trusted Platform Module (TPM >=2.0) to be present within the system. I had typed the command tpm.msc...

Hello, as the title describes I'm having problems with an old T60 I bought on eBay. I planned to upgrade it for x64 capabilities as a hobby because I like the old IBMs and wanted something practical to use for school and general use. I thought it would've been simple to just swap out the t2600...

Hi, I'm looking to upgrade the 8GB DDR3L-1600 SODIMM with a larger module. Unfortunately, my laptop - a Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 460 - only has one RAM slot and I can't find anywhere legit looking that sells single modules > 8GB. Is there some kind of hard limit on DDR3L SODIMMs at 8GB ? The...

I have the Lenovo P50s laptop (type 20FL). My question relates to the WWAN port inside of the laptop. I have read that people have used an 2242 M.2 Sata SSD inside the WWAN port of their laptops. I saw a post on Reddit that mentions this on the P50s, but it sounds like it is not compatible...

So for a while now, the wifi on my T440s would constantly disconnect and when it is connected it's slow as hell compared to my phone. That's why I'm planning to upgrade my wifi card. I got a suggestion that I upgrade to an intel wifi 6 ax200, but all vendors say it doesn't support my laptop...

So I am currently experiencing an issue with the speakers and not quite sure why it does it. So the think pad as a speaker in either side, and I have installed the drivers correctly. When testing the audio windows plays some sort of door bell noise either side and this confirms that both...

I recently accuired a 2nd hand thinkpad x230, on my own i did remove the WWAN card and installed a msata ssd in its place, also replaced the RAM modules from 2x2gb to a 2x 4gb( ram is verified pulled out from another system). OS wise i installed win10pro as the system had its sticker with...

I have a lenovo thinkpad yoga 260, but as I know these have a huge motherboard defect, so i plan to sell mine. I looked arround the internet and saw that i could buy: thinkpad x240, t440, t440s, t450, t460 or macbook air 2012, 2013, 2014. I had thin and light laptops for couple of years now, and...

Okay, so, for the last couple of days I've been trying to salvage the ssd in my mom's 5th gen X1 Carbon. She told me that it stopped working back in feb after an update. My assumption is that the computer died or was turned off during the update but I'm not sure. Anyways the issue is now that it...

So after a minor encounter with some coffee my Thinkpad X1 Carbon is permanently throtteling the processor to 0.4Ghz (minimum speed) and i am absolutely stumped as to why at this point. What happened: I spilled some coffee over the keyboard (still works) and in the side of the machine. Most...

Hello, for some time I've been experiencing an annoying problem with Windows 10 on my ThinkPad T430. It somehow refuses to boot with the "Fast startup" option enabled under the power settings. When I want to power the computer it shows Lenovo logo (normal), then tries to load Windows but instead...

Hello everyone 👋 ! I have a Thinkpad T480 with 8 Gigs of RAM. I am considering increasing the memory capacity. I believe this supports up to 32 Gigs of RAM (Maybe more?). Here are the questions I don't have answers to: Can I buy another stick which is not 8GB and if I did will that work fine...

I've heard a million times how it works, but how do you do it? My BIOS has nothing about BCLK, and i have tried to look for software with only old incompatible freeware. I have a Thinkpad x220t by the way, with a 2620m.

Dear all, I've been using Thinkpad 13 (2nd Gen) for 2 years now, I'm happy with the performance. It's mostly for programming purpose, I can run multiple Docker containers, Chrome with multiple tabs, multiple projects running without slowing it down. OS: Ubuntu 18 CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-7500U...

Hey everyone,I'm looking to replace my old ideaPad z510 with something I can actually use to work. I'm having to go mobile for a few months and need some decent laptop to replace my desktop until I can ship it where I am going (and maybe outlive it for a bit, or be a good replacement for a...