Questions tagged [lenovo-laptop]
For questions specific to unique properties of Lenovo laptop computers. Note there is a specific tag for Thinkpad. For questions that are not unique to Lenovo-brand laptops, you may attract more answers using the more general [laptop] tag.
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Ram Upgrade Lenovo Thinkpad E15 Gen 4 [duplicate]
I need to upgrade ram in my laptop. I'm not sure what kind of memory buy.
E15 Gen 4 (type 21ED 21EE) Laptop (ThinkPad) - Type 21ED
I have searched for memor and found this:
Kingston 16GB DDR4 3200MHz ...
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Compatibility Issues with Lenovo and ThinkPad Docking Station
I recently purchased a new computer along with a docking station. According to Lenovo, the two should be compatible. After all, their website states that this docking station should work for the ...
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Laptop Lenovo IdeaPad 3 15ITL6 - RAM upgrade and black screen after - too much RAM?
I have a Lenovo laptop with 4GB RAM (soldered to the motherboard) and wanted to upgrade the RAM which can be upgraded up to 12GB RAM if I read the specifications on the Lenovo website. I was on the ...
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How to completely turn off adaptive screen brightness based on content?
I have a Lenovo Yoga C940-15IRH (81TE) laptop running Windows 10 that automatically adjusts the brightness of the display based on the content being displayed; however, when the screen displays white ...
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BIOS USB Recovery for Lenovo Ideapad 15ALC6
I bought this laptop for cheap hoping to repair it. It came with solid lights on esc, caps lock and num lock. After doing some testing (display, power, other components) it seems that it got bricked ...
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Screen artifacts and keyboard not working with Tails on Lenovo yoga laptop
Laptop - Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Pro
I am experiencing this grey dead screen at that same height every time. Screen returns to normal if I don't move the mouse (touchpad) for some time. When I use the ...
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Half of my laptop screen has suddenly gone dim
Issue:
Solutions tried:
Restart
Updated some drivers as suggested by some blog posts on the internet
Nothing has worked so far. Can you please let me know what could be the issue?
Specs:
Lenovo G50-...
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USB-C Ports blowing on Monitor with Lenovo Laptops
We have a real headache in our office. We are currently using Lenovo laptops, they are coming near to EOL and are a mixture of T480/490s - L380/390s etc. We had some Philips monitors and around half ...
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cursor intermittent when moving from one monitor to the next
When I start the computer everything works fine with the mouse. As I move the cursor from one monitor to the next, as soon as it passes the edge of one monitor, it immediately is picked up on the ...
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"Mic lock" button is disabled | lenovo x280
"Mute Microphone" button, does not work. In "lenovo thinkpad x280
Of course I tried to update drivers, as well as download all Windows updates.
Windows 11 operating system
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MFG Date on replacement Lenovo ac adapter
My Lenovo ac adapter needs to be replaced. I found a replacement charger but the MFG Date and REV number of course is not the same. the MFG Date is usually 3 years or more older. Question: Does it ...
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Lenovo charging issue - help needed regarding the recently purchased charger
I've got a Lenovo Ideapad 100S-11BY, Modal: 80R2 Laptop
I just recently bought this charger for it - Charging Device Listing
When I plug in the charger into the laptops charging port, after about 10 ...
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Can't enter BIOS Lenovo g480
I have a Lenovo g480 laptop its specs:
I5-3210m, 8GB ram, NVidia gt610m, Samsung Evo 870 SSD, 650gb HDD
For over one year I am not able to enter BIOS, I used to enter it by pressing F2 during startup ...
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Lenovo g480 SSD appears and disappears randomly
I have Lenovo g480 and its specs:
I5-3210m, 8gb ram, Nividia gt610m, Samsung Evo 870 SSD, 650gb HDD
I have win 10 installed on the whole SSD in UEFI mode the problem was when the laptop shutdown ...
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Why does the leftmost Outlook Calendar act glitch and not scroll properly?
I'm having an issue with Outlook Calendars when viewing shared calendars.
Specifically, I'm having trouble with the leftmost calendar not scrolling up and down properly like the right side.
With a ...
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How can I configure elan touchpad 2 finger gesture right\left to back\forward in the browser?
I have Lenovo y700 with Elan touchpad. How can I change the 2 finger swipe gesture right\left so it will do back\forward in the browser (chrome)?
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Linux Mint: Third display cannot be enabled after logging in
I'm using Linux Mint 21.1 on a Lenovo ThinkPad P50.
I've plugged in two identical external monitors (Asus PB287 - 4k) via a Lenovo Docking Station.
The first monitor is using Displayport (should ...
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One of two monitors stays black (off) after I login back from locked screen on Windows 11
Reproduction of the issue:
Windows 11 locks session and turns off monitors according to the corresponding power settings.
When i attempt to log back in, one of my two monitors stays turned off / black....
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Can I connect an NVIDIA GPU to my Lenovo laptop?
I have a Lenovo T430 laptop with an Intel i7 processor, 16GB RAM, and 300GB SSD.
It doesn't have a Thunderbolt port.
Can I connect an NVIDIA GPU to my Lenovo laptop and use it for CUDA programming?
If ...
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Connecting Multiple Displays to Ideapad
I have an Ideapad 330-17IKB (Type 81DM) laptop, two ThinkVision monitors, and a ThinkPad Thunderbolt 3 dock. Is there a way to connect these with or without the dock so that I have two displays in ...
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Stuck at 0.39 Ghz: Lenovo Ideapad 5 with Intel i5-1135G7 processor
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I bought the laptop in November 2021 and ran it with the pre-installed Windows OS, and had it running well on Windows 11 up until around January. Then suddenly, the CPU started throttling ...
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How to access advanced setup (BIOS/UEFI) on Lenovo IdeaPad 5 Pro
Does anyone know how to access advanced option in setup (BIOS/UEFI) on Lenovo IdeaPad 5 Pro?
I tried to google for it but combinations I found don't work.
I tried:
FN + all keys from Q to P, A - L, Z ...
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When you connect a type-c charger to a Lenovo laptop, in the area where the charger is connected, something starts to make sounds
When you connect a type-c charger to a Lenovo laptop, inside the case, in the area where the charger is connected, something starts to make sounds similar to grinding or a Geiger counter. Help, please,...
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Blank screen on a cloned nvme drive boot
Problem: A cloned hdd to a nvme drive with a Windows 10 system, on a Lenovo Y700 15ISK laptop boots into a blank screen. After pressing ctrl+alt+del it restarts and then Lenovo logo appears and it ...
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How to turn off Lenovo laptop VirtualBox Snail execution mode?
Configuration: Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga 3rd Generation Core i7vPro, 16GB main memory, 1TB SSD, Windows 10 Pro 22H2, VirtualBox VM 7.0.6 r155176.
In the above configuration, I have set up a Windows 11 ...
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Upgrading the RAM of an Ideapad 310-14ikb to 20GB?
Someone wants some help upgrading their laptop's RAM and when I looked up the model on Lenovo's website, it says it can be upgraded up to 12GB. (It has a 4GB soldered RAM) however, Crucial says that ...
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Win 10 crashes at startup with BSOD
I hope this is the right site and forum for this question.
I have a lenovo laptop with following specs:
Core i7
Nvidia GTX 860M
8 GB DDR3
256 SSD
Win 10
For some years the laptop used to crash ...
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Display, keyboard, touch pad, and battery not working on Lenovo laptop
I have a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon laptop, about 1.5 years old. I use Ubuntu 20.04 on it. It used to work normally till yesterday, and I didn't do anything special before it stopped working properly. ...
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The charge became 0% for no reason when I booted my Lenovo Xiaoxin Air 13iwl laptop
My system is a Lenovo Xiaoxin Air 13iwl laptop.
The situation has occurred many times recently. After shutting my laptop down as usual, the charge would run out for no reason the next time I started ...
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Lenovo E15 G3 with Windows 11 extremely slow
I recently bought a 3rd generation Lenovo Thinkpad E15 (512GB SSD variant) with Windows 11 Pro. It has 16 GB of RAM, and a Ryzen 7 processor.
For several months, Windows Explorer has been extremely ...
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How can I detect Novo button power-up in GRUB 2 on a Lenovo G550 laptop?
My Lenovo G550 laptop has an alternative power-on button next to the normal power button (called the ‘Novo button’) that is apparently meant to trigger an alternative booting mode into recovery ...
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My Windows 10 computer wakes up by itself from sleep mode
I have a newly installed windows 10 computer that wakes up by itself if I have put it in sleep mode.
When the computer starts up by itself, it will only use the laptop screen (and not my connected ...
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I need help re-installing any OS onto a Lenovo Yoga 6 laptop that probably has nothing on it's disk that can be recovered as well as a BIOS password
So basically, the question is does anybody know of a way to recover or bypass a uefi password on a Lenovo yoga 6 (which doesn't have a cmos battery or switch to "jump" the bios as far as I ...
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dGPU passthrough: Is it possible in a Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3?
I own a Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3 15ACH6, which comes with an AMD Ryzen 7 5800H with Radeon graphics iGPU and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop dGPU.
What I'm trying to achieve is a Kubuntu host OS and ...
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Windows installation can t see lenovo ssd
Windows installation and diskpart can t see ssd but it appears in bios. CPU:i3 1115g4.
I tried running drivers , recovery tool from lenovo and secure boot on and off but it s still not visible.Also ...
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Wifi 6 network not showing in available networks
I have a Lenovo Extreme X1 Gen 2 (win 11) with an intel WIFI 6 ax200 wireless adapter. The wifi at home is ZenWwifiifi ET12. (family xmas present this year) Phones will connect fine to the wifi 6 ...
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Make phone calls using build in LTE from Windows
I have a Lenovo ThinkPad L13 Yoga G3 Laptop with Windows 10 , that has built in LTE.
I've put the sim card , and internet is ok.
But i have problems making phone calls.
When someone calls me , on ...
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What is the component being updated? How can I find the reason update fails?
For a month now, every other day Windows Update (W10) tries to install a firmware/driver for a Micron SSD. It reports being successful:
But in the event viewer (or in the reliability monitor) this ...
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Lenovo ThinkPad P15 won't boot after disabling battery
The battery on my P15 was no longer charging (the battery + charging symbol never appeared in the task tray). I disabled the battery in the BIOS in an attempt to "reset" things. The PC ...
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May I upgrade laptop memory with a dual-rank module RAM?
My Laptop ( Lenovo Edge E531 ) has two RAM slots. By default It has one SK Hynix 4GB DDR3-1600 SODIMM PC3L-12800S Single Rank x8 Module and the other slot is empty. May I launch one SK Hynix 8GB DDR3-...
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How to re-install the Wi-Fi driver on my Lenovo Laptop after uninstalling it in an attempt to fix connectivity issues?
Right out of the package the laptop struggled to connect to my home network, but it worked fine on my phone hotspot. I reset the network setting multiple times but it did nothing.
I saw that ...
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Swap Fn and Ctrl keys without accessing BIOS
I am a Software Engineer, and the Fn and Ctrl keys in my laptop are swapped, and it is very annoying. And I am unable to access BIOS, as it is password protected by the admin. Any help is appreciated.
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reset bios Lenovo X1 Carbon 20A7: error 0199
I have a Lenovo X1 Carbon model 20A7. Windows 10.
I have lost the super user password for bios long time ago.
Lenovo System Update tool tried to install a newer version of bios today and I entered the ...
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Does Lenovo IdeaPad 330s 15IKB 81F5 Support Western Digital SN Black 770 SSD
I have Lenovo IdeaPad 330s, It comes with 1TB HDD, I want to know if, my laptop supports WD Black SN770. I know that my PC has a M.2 slot but not sure if it's PCIe or NVMe.
Here's the model on Lenovo ...
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mouse cursor freezes almost once a day
I have two Lenovo laptops - a P53s and a P15s. Both are running Windows 11 Version 21H2 (Build 22000.1335). I use the TrackPoint on both exclusively (I have the touch pad disabled).
Anyway, for the ...
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I am trying to install linux on my new Lenovo 5G
I am trying now for some time to install Linux on my new Lenovo 5G laptop as stand alone without success.
Laptop spec.:
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen2 5G processor (Octa-Core)
8 GB LPDDR4X-1866
512 GB ...
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How to switch fn and ctrl keys on Lenovo X1 Tablet Gen2?
As many people know, Lenovo has this bizarre habit of switching the location of the function (Fn) and left control (Ctrl) keys on their keyboards. I can't imagine why they think this is a good idea (...
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Enabling GPU on Windows 10 X1 Carbon box results in frequent search index corruption
I've had problems with frequent Windows search index corruption over many years and four generations of X1 Carbon boxes. I'm currently on the highest end 10th gen (2022) carbon, Win10 22H2 (19045.2311)...
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Plugging power into my laptop killed my USB-C-HDMI cables, my monitors, and now it wont charge or boot - how, and why?
I've got a bit of perplexing problem, unsure if it's hardware, firmware or software, and not sure how to proceed.
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga L13 Gen 2, booting Ubuntu, Fedora, and Win10 (all ...
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Cannot make new ssd drive bootable
I have a new SSD drive installed on my lenovo B50 laptop and I also have an HDD from past which contains my current windows. I want to install new windows on the SSD.
I first tried to clone my current ...
