Hello everyone, I'm not sure this is the right category for my post, but in case I'll be happy to move it elsewhere.
I'm wrapping my head around a very misterious mulfunctioning from my three-year-old Lenovo Legion 5.
I've never had any issue with it untill one evening in which, out of the blue, it wouldn't turn on (turn-on button lights up, but no keyboard lights, no sound from the fans). I try multiple times, but the computer seems dead. I fear a major fault in the motherboard.
I bring the computer to a technician. He can't detect any visible hardware problem. He flashes the BIOS and changes the CMOS-BIOS battery, then tells me the computer is up and running.
I bring the computer home and use it for a couple of days, everything seems back to normal. I unistall some app and reboot: the computer turns off instead and goes back to the original condition (black screen, no lights from the keyboard, no fan sound). Same thing happens if I turn off the computer and try to turn it on again.
BUT (here is the weird part): I discover by accident that if I wait a little bit and try again, the computer boots normally. When windows loads, the computer runs seamlessly: CPU, GPU, RAM seem to work like clockwork. Only thing is that the windows clock seems not to be working while the computer is off, so I have to put it back in sync everytime. But the BIOS battery has just been replaced. I checked the time also in the BIOS screen and it seems more precise than the windows one, but I'll have to check again.
I start thinking that it might be a corruption of the OS, so I proceed to clean the SSD and reinstall windows from scratch. The situation stays identical.
So, after a few days of tests, it seems that if I try to turn on the computer right after I turn it off, it will not start. I also can't do a reboot anymore because it will just turn off instead. But if I wait 5 minutes before turning it back on, it will work again (only with a clock out of sync), but overall perform perfectly.
I could keep using the computer like this, but I'm afraid it will get worse and I am genuinely curious to find out what's the cause of this. At this point I really have no idea if it's an hardware, software or BIOS problem.
What do you think?
Thanks for your help!
I'm wrapping my head around a very misterious mulfunctioning from my three-year-old Lenovo Legion 5.
I've never had any issue with it untill one evening in which, out of the blue, it wouldn't turn on (turn-on button lights up, but no keyboard lights, no sound from the fans). I try multiple times, but the computer seems dead. I fear a major fault in the motherboard.
I bring the computer to a technician. He can't detect any visible hardware problem. He flashes the BIOS and changes the CMOS-BIOS battery, then tells me the computer is up and running.
I bring the computer home and use it for a couple of days, everything seems back to normal. I unistall some app and reboot: the computer turns off instead and goes back to the original condition (black screen, no lights from the keyboard, no fan sound). Same thing happens if I turn off the computer and try to turn it on again.
BUT (here is the weird part): I discover by accident that if I wait a little bit and try again, the computer boots normally. When windows loads, the computer runs seamlessly: CPU, GPU, RAM seem to work like clockwork. Only thing is that the windows clock seems not to be working while the computer is off, so I have to put it back in sync everytime. But the BIOS battery has just been replaced. I checked the time also in the BIOS screen and it seems more precise than the windows one, but I'll have to check again.
I start thinking that it might be a corruption of the OS, so I proceed to clean the SSD and reinstall windows from scratch. The situation stays identical.
So, after a few days of tests, it seems that if I try to turn on the computer right after I turn it off, it will not start. I also can't do a reboot anymore because it will just turn off instead. But if I wait 5 minutes before turning it back on, it will work again (only with a clock out of sync), but overall perform perfectly.
I could keep using the computer like this, but I'm afraid it will get worse and I am genuinely curious to find out what's the cause of this. At this point I really have no idea if it's an hardware, software or BIOS problem.
What do you think?
Thanks for your help!
