[GTALUG] Repair & Replace

[William Park]

I didn't know Lenovo does warranty repair without the original Windows 
on it.  This warranty issue is one reason that I don't do "dual-boot" 
from the original disk.  I always add another Linux disk.

On 2023-09-13 17:39, Peter King via talk wrote:
> It's a Lenovo Legion T5-26AMRS, about a year and a half old; the CPU is 
> an AMD Ryzen 7 5700G (8 cores) running around 3GHz, with 32GB of RAM.  
> The graphics card is an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 with 12GB onboard RAM.  
> I bought a three-year warranty when I got it, so it's still eligible for 
> repair.  Ignoring the CPU Fan Failure message so far hasn't caused any 
> hiccups, which makes me distrust the message.  The fact that the CMOS 
> started acting up exactly when the fans failed make me suspect an 
> electrical problem on the motherboard.
> 
> I run Arch Linux; I wiped Windows off the machine as soon as I got it.  
> Apart from the hardware troubles it runs well.  I run similar Arch 
> setups on my other computers, too.  If I didn't have to look at a GUI 
> ever I would be happy.