u/PetrosSdoukos

u/Guiboom71

I left this phone unused for fell days and it just died on me. No longer shows any sign of life other than the board slighty warming up if you leave it on the charger for a few minutes or showing up on device manager.

I don't really know what to do about it since I never ran into this issue before.

Thinkpad T14 Gen 2 / i7-1175G7

Update: *I removed the RAM stick, power cycled it and everything came back to normal. Although I only have 8gb of ram now :(

Opened chrome with about 3-4 tabs and I was on 78% usage of RAM... lmao*

I have been having a number of issues with this laptop

As RAM slot being extremely fragile with crashes happening (Not a RAM Stick issue giving I replaced it before and the problem remained literally the same)

GPU artefacts when a lot of load is put into it. Can be triggered by opening VMware (Only goes away once you reboot). Also this specific issue doesn't seem to happen on Fedora.

Now I was going to study and this brilliant piece of crap decided to limit the CPU at 0.40ghz, before turning off and the CPU Fan start howling immediately. Disconnecting the charger had the red charging light remain which makes me think this is a problem with the EC Chip.

I turned it off, but it wouldn't come back on and the charging light remained red without a charger. I opened it up, disconnected the battery and turned it on again. Cool, it was working.

After a little while... Now it's limited to a "whopping" 0.18ghz, being completely unusable and laggy

Pressing the FN key (which is swapped on the bios to be Ctrl) causes this weird set of beeps to happen. It also happened when I rebooted it trying to get rid of this weird CPU speed limit (but only one time, it didnt loop 3 times like it happens here)

I'l put more images on the comments of this post regarding my other issues. I seriously think this Mobo is f-ed...

(I kept volume mixer opened so you can see this sound isn't coming from an app)

And ofc this happens right on the time I have to study for a test. Just brilliant.

It's a Thinkpad T14 Gen 2. It sucks for gaming, Intel Iris Xe drivers are always crashing and all... But I do have an ROG Ally, so why not just use that instead?

The touchscreen is not reliable for PC games so I do need a keyboard lol

-How does it work tho?

It's actually pretty simple. I am using an app called DeskFlow on both devices, the ThinkPad being the server and the Ally being the client. (connection through Wi-Fi)

Yes I do use it for gaming, the delay is minimal and I don't really notice it. tbh, feels like it has less delay than when I am using the cursor on the thinkpad itself lmao (Likely related to the Intel's borked GPU drivers, pretty unstable)