#Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5 14ABR8 sets to MAX BRIGHTNESS after powers on or wake from sleep

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toxic prairie
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Rebooting keeps the correct brightness setting
TURNING ON after shutdown or WAKING FROM SLEEP does NOT

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Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5 14ABR8 sets to MAX BRIGHTNESS after powers on or wake from sleep

gloomy river
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uh just a dumb question but did you check if auto brightness is on or not? (if its a feature at all)

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should be called adaptive brightness

toxic prairie
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it has a presence sensor (which I hate) but not a ambient light sensor!!

gloomy river
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also check out power settings in control panel

toxic prairie
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all three have the same issue

gloomy river
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hmmm

toxic prairie
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just ended a call with lenovo "this might be a panel issue" lol

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to me it's purely a bad software!

gloomy river
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might be

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who knows

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most of them time they dont troubleshoot properly

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they would just tell you to give the laptop back for their technician to fix

toxic prairie
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the person was nice and the voice quality was pretty good for a call center

gloomy river
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but there has got to be a way

gloomy river
toxic prairie
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but then she was like "reset windows and try to not update anything from windows update but just lenovo"

gloomy river
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its just that they dont have enough knowledge

toxic prairie
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i just got the laptop yesterday

toxic prairie
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and now before resetting windows i wanna do a disk image with macrium and it fails... first time i ever see this

gloomy river
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does it have any gpu?

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or is it just igpu?

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hmm its igpu

toxic prairie
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just igpu

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i'm thinking about disabling lenovo apps to see

gloomy river
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thats something new

gloomy river
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yeah that could be a thing

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personally my laptop doesnt have such app that could cause that

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and try checking for any bios updates from lenovo vantage app if you have that app

toxic prairie
gloomy river
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sometimes my keyboard backlit lights get bugged and they get full bright and i have to restart the laptop

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but it doesnt happend everytime

gloomy river
toxic prairie
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cause I had this on a Lenovo Yoga for another person

gloomy river
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thats why i am telling you

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seems like lenovo problem

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for me

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idk about you

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its something new so it might be lenovo problem

gloomy river
toxic prairie
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I couldn't find asolution, keyboard brightness would always go back to the maximum

gloomy river
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lenovo get really bad laptops

toxic prairie
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so I let it this way

gloomy river
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the app just doesnt works

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so i restart the laptop and it fixes it all

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did you try checking out bios settings btw?

toxic prairie
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i can't backup the NVMe driver to an externa SSD

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even on a Win PE environnment for Macrium

gloomy river
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how?

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its jsut 1 key

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just

toxic prairie
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😡

gloomy river
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just

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f1

toxic prairie
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which key

gloomy river
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restart the laptop

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and keep pressing f1

toxic prairie
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it doesn't work

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it forces to boot on windows

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i hate it

gloomy river
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how?

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bruh

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no way

toxic prairie
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even with fn it won't go to BIOS

gloomy river
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lets see if it opens boot menu

toxic prairie
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f12 gives me the boot device selector

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but from there no link to bios

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"preparing for automatic repair

gloomy river
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wait

toxic prairie
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ezIGHIULQABERMUPHGBZEMHGBNEZS

gloomy river
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try f2

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restart and f2

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i really forgot which key it was

toxic prairie
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OMG

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it's f2

gloomy river
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google said f1

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bruh

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dont trust google

toxic prairie
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but i'm so used to lenovos with F1 !!!

gloomy river
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anyways

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lenovo is shit

toxic prairie
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their bios sucks too

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there's barely any options, and nothing for the brightness

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i guess i'm doomed

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can't even backup the NVMe drive

gloomy river
gloomy river
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try another software

toxic prairie
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i disabled all lenovo services

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brightness still coming back to 100

gloomy river
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holy fuck

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ths is messed up

toxic prairie
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yeah

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it will destroy the oled

gloomy river
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idk about that

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but too much brightness is just annoying to me

toxic prairie
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well 400nits always is never good

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yes, this laptop will be used indoors

gloomy river
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well

toxic prairie
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ok bacukuping nvme, the version of macrium had a problem

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it's backuping and then i'll try their resetting windows 11 idea

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grrr

gloomy river
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sure

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hope it works

toxic prairie
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also i'm cuyrrently surrounded by thunder

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😬

gloomy river
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mhm

toxic prairie
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"Hi there. I bring bad news:
Reason
The filter was triggered by the following:
max caps limit reached (100% total)
ENTERING THE BIOS ON A LENOVO IS A REAL PAIN
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Please refrain from this kind of behavior in the future. Thank you."

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oops

gloomy river
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what

toxic prairie
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earlier, my message got blocked haha

gloomy river
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caps?

toxic prairie
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a lightning just hit 500 meters away from my place

gloomy river
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wow

toxic prairie
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ok, backup done

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let's try resseting windows...

gloomy river
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i have an old dell e6330

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i set bios from legacy to uefi and safe mode

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and since then its jsut blank screen'

toxic prairie
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even for the bios ?

gloomy river
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yeah

toxic prairie
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you can't access it?

gloomy river
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the screen is jsut blank

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nope

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the laptop turns on but no display

toxic prairie
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does ith ave AMD RADEON HD ?

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67XX?

gloomy river
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no

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it has intel

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its 13 years old laptop

toxic prairie
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ok cause these do fail quite easily

gloomy river
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1 thing

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it had pc3l in pc3 slot

toxic prairie
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some of these Dell had the AMD dGPU I mentionned

toxic prairie
gloomy river
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ram

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ddr 3 ram

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l is for low voltage

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it had a low voltage ram in normal slot

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basically the whole laptop takes normal ram

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not low voltage

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i orderder more ram and the store canceled the order after 2 days

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ordered again

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will get shipped till 28 may

toxic prairie
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you think it's the reason it doesn't boiot?

gloomy river
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also

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it drained a full cmos battery

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new one

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to 1.5v

gloomy river
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but who knows

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there is no way i can flash new bios

toxic prairie
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did you get good quality cmos batteries?

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i dislike cheap ones, they are problemics for lots of devices

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even for low amperage things

gloomy river
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yea did

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its panasonic i guess

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i am so donw with this laptop

toxic prairie
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it sucks that just modifying a setting could kill a bios 😦

gloomy river
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my only mistake was just not checking it before opening it for cleaning

toxic prairie
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i guess removing the cmos battery didn't help

gloomy river
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tried resetting

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draining

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everything

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but nothing

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is there any way of checking

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with multimeter?

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cuz thats all what i've got

toxic prairie
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i couldn't help you on such hardware level 😦

gloomy river
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and i think the fan is also not working

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its gets to max speen when i press pwoer button and turns off as the laptop goes to sleep mode

gloomy river
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cooked

toxic prairie
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yes, it seems cooked

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can you retrieve the data (if any)?

gloomy river
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getta tell my boss that he needs to get new laptop

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he got it refurbished

gloomy river
toxic prairie
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that wasn't a nice deal

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i often get 2012-2015 laptops for free

gloomy river
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ordered docking stations as well

toxic prairie
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:/

gloomy river
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i mean

toxic prairie
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i got a free 15" lenovo with its dock from 2015 the other day

gloomy river
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no no

toxic prairie
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i7 - 16gb ram - ssd - 4G LTE WLAN

gloomy river
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docking stations

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for ssd and hdd

toxic prairie
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ahhhh gotcha

gloomy river
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yeah

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got nother ssd as well

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i wanna start my own carrear

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as technician

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this shit really turned my hoped down ngl

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but on the other end

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i got my lesson

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to never open a pc or laptop without running diagnostics

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and checking for any problems

toxic prairie
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i'm a technician since 2019, still learning

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you'll always learn

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i made mistakes too

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accepting laptops without checking them

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having bigger issue on the go

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people lies to trick you etc

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and laptops are less and less solid

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RAM is often soldering now

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batteries are cheap (processor are energy efficient but the quality of the cell on the loong run: bad)

gloomy river
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expected tbh

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they have bigger problems but they will tell you a small one

gloomy river
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how did you start your work

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personally idk how to

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maybe some advertising cards?

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with my contact on them?

toxic prairie
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until last year I had no contact cards, I just started getting known by my neighbours

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they spreaded the word

gloomy river
toxic prairie
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but today and since 2024 economics hit me hard

gloomy river
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i got offered

toxic prairie
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gotta advertise myself

gloomy river
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by my driving teacher

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that if i want i can give her my contact cards

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technician since 2019 and asking people for help on ltt server

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afterall i feel like i am not just useless

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its universal

toxic prairie
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well sometimes I can't find solutions

gloomy river
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yeah see

toxic prairie
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often it's some stupid stuff which anyways can't be solved

gloomy river
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even you cant

toxic prairie
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when it's major I figure out on my own

gloomy river
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heck no

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wasting my 200 euros worth of time on a 50 euro laptop

toxic prairie
gloomy river
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i ordered many tools now

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especially the necessary one

gloomy river
toxic prairie
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an european neighbour!

gloomy river
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where r u from?

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and

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a question

toxic prairie
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france

gloomy river
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have you ever ruined someone's device?

gloomy river
toxic prairie
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it had a mate finish and the cleaning product went through it and kills some pixels

gloomy river
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what's up with people using so old systems

toxic prairie
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i replaced the panel

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it was in 2019

gloomy river
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oh

toxic prairie
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when I began

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it had a SSD and 8 GB RAM which was plenty back then

gloomy river
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what did you use to clean

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does isopropyl ruin the pixels as well?

toxic prairie
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yes it can

gloomy river
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oh

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well better be careful

toxic prairie
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you have to use a very damp cloth and a dry cloth right after

gloomy river
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so how much do you charge for cleaning

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with paste change and stuff

gloomy river
toxic prairie
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internal cleaning with paste I charge 30 to 40 depending of the complexity

gloomy river
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never ran into such issue tbh

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and even if you do you dont feel it

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the costumer returns the product

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and you wont even know about it

gloomy river
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here it might be cheaper tho

toxic prairie
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that screen quality was rubish

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like 220 nits bad colours bad contrast TN panel

gloomy river
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uh

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people use anything tbh

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they would pay 100 euros to fix old laptop but not buy new one

toxic prairie
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OK

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Lenovo IdeaPad is BACK TO FACTOYR WINDOWS

gloomy river
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and i think in the first years no one even gets their laptop for cleaning until it starts overheating

toxic prairie
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brightness to 50

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shutting down now

gloomy river
toxic prairie
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i'm testin

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AND ITS BACK TO FULL brightness

gloomy river
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f

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tell friend to give laptop back to lenovo

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btw does it earn you anything more than a technician working for a company or just the same

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if you got a workshop then you might have bills to pay

toxic prairie
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omg

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so

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it' did the problem again

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started recording a video for lenovo to see

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and it didn't do it now

gloomy river
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wait what

toxic prairie
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false alert

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it continues doing it

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so it's not windows or a setting

gloomy river
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uh

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yeah its not

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its lenovo problem

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return the laptop to lenovo

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they will fix it

toxic prairie
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i'll try to install a windows without lenovo software and just install the graphics driver

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no wifi driver ... omg lenovo

gloomy river
toxic prairie
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yes i'm trying it

gloomy river
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that might work

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but did you already do that?

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did'nt you do clean windows installation from usb?

toxic prairie
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i have a windows 11 external ssd

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i booted from it

gloomy river
toxic prairie
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i will install just the graphics drivers and try

gloomy river
toxic prairie
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wait

gloomy river
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check and then do all this stuff

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if that doesnt work then its not the software at all

toxic prairie
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yeah

gloomy river
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yeah what

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anyways amma go to work now

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will be back in like hours

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or maybe chat when i am free

toxic prairie
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vga drivers installed

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rebooting then shutdown then power on to see

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good luc k with work

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guess what

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on a raw windows it works as it should

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so it IS something to do with their preapplied software

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i'm restoring the system I personalised and will dig deep into lenovo's mess

gloomy river
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so fheir software is the problem

toxic prairie
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i'm trying to see if windows has something to do with it

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updated windows to the latest public build: still the same

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i have no clue what triggers this behaviour

toxic prairie
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i made a script to correct the brightness

toxic prairie
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@gloomy river everytime i switch the laptop on, or wake from sleep or open a user account, it will set to 50% with a script in task scheduler

gloomy river
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you just made it set to 50%

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but the issue didnt get fixed?

toxic prairie
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no but at least it doesn't go back to a stupid high level everytime it wkaes from sleep or unluck user account or boots

gloomy river
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you can do a clean windows install