r/Lenovo

TL;DR: While playing ARC Raiders my laptop screen randomly goes black or turns into weird green/pink/white/gray static. The weird thing is the game doesn't actually crash. I can still hear everything and can even move my character, but the display is completely gone. I've been troubleshooting this with ChatGPT for the last couple of days and we've tried pretty much everything I can think of. I'm hoping someone here has had the same issue.

Hey guys, I'm honestly getting pretty desperate with this so I'm hoping someone recognizes the problem.

I have a Lenovo Legion Pro 5 16IRX8 with an RTX 4070 Laptop GPU. While playing ARC Raiders, my screen will randomly die. Sometimes it goes completely black, other times it turns into what I can only describe as TV static/white noise with green, pink, white and gray pixels everywhere.

The strange part is that the game is still running. I can hear the game, Discord/etc. still works, and I can even move my character around. It's basically just the display that dies.

At first, putting the laptop to sleep with the power button and waking it back up would actually restore the screen without restarting the PC. Win + Ctrl + Shift + B didn't fix it and sometimes seemed to make things worse. Now the problem seems to be getting more unpredictable. Last night I got green pixels, today it was just a black screen, and after one of the crashes even closing the lid didn't properly put the laptop to sleep.

I've been using ChatGPT to troubleshoot it and we've gone pretty far down the rabbit hole. So far we've:

• Completely formatted/reinstalled Windows.
• Clean installed different NVIDIA drivers.
• Tried the newer NVIDIA 610.88 driver.
• Rolled all the way back to Lenovo's recommended OEM 560.94 driver. It still happened.
• Tested the laptop in dGPU mode, so it isn't simply switching to the integrated GPU when it happens.
• Tried DX11/windowed instead of the normal DX12 setup.
• Updated/checked the RTX 4070 VBIOS. It's 95.06.1E.00.98.
• Checked the motherboard BIOS. It's KWCN54WW, dated October 2025.
• Loaded BIOS defaults.
• Did the full power drain/EC reset.
• Opened the laptop, checked/cleaned the fans and cooling.
• Looked through Windows Reliability Monitor and analyzed the crash dumps with WinDbg.

Windows has actually created a LiveKernelEvent 193 / VIDEO_DXGKRNL_LIVEDUMP when this happened, with dxgkrnl!ProcessDeadlockThread. With ChatGPT's help I went through the full dump and we found NVIDIA (nvlddmkm.sys) involved in the display threads that were getting stuck.

I don't really know enough about kernel debugging to claim that means the GPU itself is dying, which is why I'm posting here.

Has anyone playing ARC Raiders had this exact problem? Not the game simply crashing to desktop — specifically the screen going black or becoming colored/static garbage while the game itself keeps running normally in the background.

I'm especially interested if anyone has seen this on a Legion Pro 5 / RTX 4070 laptop and managed to fix it, because at this point I'm running out of ideas and unfortunately the laptop is out of warranty.

So I just wanted to share my experience in the only way that I currently can. I purchased a Lenovo X9-14 aura edition thinkpad last September, it has since had multiple technical issues including a wifi issue that is known to be present in this laptop, a Bluetooth issue, slowness and now sound issues.

I won't go into too much detail as to what the issues are as that is not why I am writing this. I have gone through in person repair for this as well as lots of exchanges over email with the tech team and I have been transferred multiple times. It has been weeks and the laptop is still not fixed and it has been a nightmare.

I am writing this because I noticed an email in my inbox from a few months ago to review the product and I really wanted to share my awful experience but the link was expired. Given that it had only been about 10 months into having the Lenovo that I realized this, the link clearly expires very quickly to prevent people from giving negative reviews after having it for a few months.

Overall, this laptop is incredibly awful and disappointing and I would really like to actually get it refunded but they have told me on multiple occasions that that is not an option. I have talked to them so many times and so many different branches and I am genuinely so frustrated because this was a really expensive laptop and it is so unreliable and I am just mad at myself for even buying this shit laptop in the first place.

Sorry for the rant but I really wanted to leave a review and reddit is my only option now apparently.

Hello Everyone!

Im planning to buy a Legion 5a as my first ever gaming laptop. But i dont know which variant I should choose:

Ryzen AI 9 465 + RTX 5060

Ryzen 7 250 + RTX 5070

both 16 gb RAM and 512 gb ssd (but I will upgrade it later when needed).

I chose legion 5a specifically because its the only one that fits on my current budget.

Here are some tasks id probably use it for the most:

1. Engineering (Im an Agricultural and Biosystems freshman)

Just something that can run AutoCAD and Solidworks smoothly (since this are some softwares our prof gave us overview on)

2. Gaming. I do casual gaming on my free time but I rarely play AAA games (considering this is my first gaming laptop anyway). Games like WuWa, Minecraft, and other similar games.

3. Content Creation. Ive been into video editing lately and im trying to learn animation & blender.

Most importantly, I want the one with better future proofing because this would be my only windows device throughout my entire 4-5 years on the course. (As I said, throughout this time, id definitely upgrade both the ram and ssd).

Battery isnt really a problem since there are plenty of wall sockets on our lecture halls

So if anyone would be able to help me decide, ill gladly consider your recommendations.

I´m looking for a tablet and I´m really interested in the Lenovo Idea Tab Pro Gen 2.

My problem now is that currently nowhere (in central Europe) is available the 12 GB RAM version, there are just a few pieces on stock for students. I can only get the version with 8 GB.

I want to use the tablet for classic office work (e-mails, writing some documents, notes), also for watching Netflix/YouTube, and working with ChatGPT/Claude (not necessarily big coding, just easier stuff). And I´d like to keep it at least for the next 5 years without getting struggles already after 2-3 years.

Based on a lot of reviews the 8 GB version works just fine, but what´s your guess/experience?

I need help deciding which one is better and the best deal?

Thinkpad X1 Yoga gen 5 for $350 :

i5-10210u, 16gb ram, 256gb upgradable ssd, + pen.

Lenovo 7 2 in 1 for $600:

AMD ryzen 5 8640HS, 16gb ram, 512gb ssd, only slightly over a year old.

Which one should I buy?

Also, is it better to buy a non 2 in 1 and a tablet than either of these

Looking to buy a new laptop and I wanted to know the difference . I plan to use it for law school and also some music production/ video editing

I just wanted to say, do not buy this laptop second hand.

Ideapad 5 pro 16aph8. 1tb ssd, 32gb soldered ram, ryzen 7 7780hs. On paper looks beefy laptop for a decent price.

I chose the 16" 2 fan option instead of the 1 fan 14" for better cooling, with iGpu for university use and light gaming (manor lords, snowrunner, mostly run at 70%gpu, at decent temperature, nothing crazy).

It failed after 1 years, it got serviced for free in warranty. It made artifacts, gpu fail, the motherboard was changed conpletely.

After 2.5 year use (1.5 year after service) it failed again. No warranty anymore.

An 800 eur (920usd) laptop, looks nice on the outside, metal house, doesn't look cheap, but in reality it is e-waste.

A few m72e units I have are Showing what I can only assume is a POST issue

The fan starts spinning, The keyboard Cap Lock button doesn't respond, and there's no Display or anything

I tried changing the RAM, Using only one that I know of a fact works, I tried changing the CMoS battery, Resetting the Bios, Nothing is working so far

Any suggestions for troubleshooting?

Im going to uni soon so i need a laptop.
i took my dads old 9th gen x1c but it will not turn on.

he had some problems with it shutting off sometimes so he got a new one but now it shows no life.

I charged it... power button LED does nothing.

when i press the small button on the back and press power after the fans kick on for 2s but nothing happens after.

i lowk cant afford top give it to a repair shop so any help is greatley appreciated