Rant / Help | New Legion 5 pro Only Causes Problems
*TL;DR:* I bought a Lenovo Legion Pro 5 (Ultra 9 / RTX 5070 Ti) that reached 105°C from day one. It died with a POST failure, went to warranty and got a new motherboard. It came back with the speaker cable disconnected, with Windows Insider installed, and is constantly giving blue screens, and I want to know if it's possible to return the PC.
Well friends, I'm here to ask for your help with the following:
At the end of last year I bought a new notebook, a Lenovo Legion 5 Pro with:
Intel Ultra 9 275HX | RTX 5070 TI | 32GB RAM | 1TB SSD and 2K OLED screen.
In theory, a real beast, I paid 1800€ because I had heard that prices were going to go up, and in fact that happened, currently the same notebook costs 2800€. I bought the PC for gaming, but also for audiovisual, I use it a lot for photos and videos, using various Adobe programs, but let's get to the point:
The problems started shortly after, I felt that the notebook was overheating a lot, regardless of whether I was using a fan or just a support underneath, I installed software to monitor the temperatures and it was constantly thermal throttling, it had peaks that reached 105° (which I read here was normal, as long as it wasn't a constant temperature), I even undervolted but honestly I didn't notice the difference.
I've always kept my PC updated, whether through Windows Update, Lenovo Vantage, or Nvidia Experience, and I've had blue screens several times.
Until one day (about a month and a half after buying it) the PC wouldn't turn on (no POST), and the keys weren't even lighting up. I contacted support, and the PC was sent to warranty repair. Two weeks later, the PC came back; apparently, it's a common problem with Lenovo PCs, and they replaced the entire motherboard. I turn on the PC, and the speaker on the left side doesn't work. I open the PC and see that a cable was disconnected (I didn't even complain).
I don't know if it influences anything, but the PC also arrived with *Build 26100 (Windows Insider Preview)*. This is a test version of Windows according to the GPT chat.
And lately it's been absurd. I haven't been playing many games, but I've been using Photoshop and Lightroom a lot, and there are days when I get 3 blue screens in a 5-hour period, for example.
Over the weekend, things escalated completely. I was in Photoshop and the screen became completely distorted, full of colored horizontal lines and blocks of color – the typical artifacts of when the graphics memory (VRAM) fails. If I Alt-Tabd, it would disappear for a few seconds, but the PC was completely bugged.
I analyzed the Minidump files in WinDbg to understand what was happening, and the verdict is clear: consecutive errors of *VIDEO_TDR_ERROR (0x116)* and *DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION (0x133)*, always pointing to the Nvidia driver (nvlddmkm.sys). Today the PC had two blue screens (0x116) within a 3-hour period.
Honestly, I'm fed up. I'm not rich, and obviously it cost me €1800, and I don't think it's normal to be going through all this. Honestly, I only regret not having bought a MacBook for work.
Now I'm asking, is it possible to return it and get my money back? Is there any way to get rid of this?
Thank you to everyone who read this and please help me 🙏🏼