[GTALUG] Repair & Replace

[Peter King]

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.

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.

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

-- 
Peter King			 	peter.king at utoronto.ca
Department of Philosophy
170 St. George Street #521
The University of Toronto		   (416)-946-3170 ofc
Toronto, ON  M5R 2M8
        CANADA

http://individual.utoronto.ca/pking/

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