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<p><font size="4" face="Adobe Courier">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.</font></p>
<p><font size="4" face="Adobe Courier">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.</font></p>
<p><font size="4" face="Adobe Courier">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.</font></p>
<p><font size="4" face="Adobe Courier">Any common wisdom about who
might be good for this job? Thanks!<br>
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Department of Philosophy
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