[TriLUG] Advice Please

[David Both via TriLUG]

I've had similar symptoms on my laptops. Check the battery. If it's the
least bit swollen, replace it.

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On Tue, 18 Feb 2025, Dwain Sims via TriLUG wrote:

> Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 11:26:37
> From: Dwain Sims via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
> Reply-To: Dwain Sims <dsims at bayleafnc.org>,
>     Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion <trilug at trilug.org>
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion <trilug at trilug.org>
> Subject: [TriLUG] Advice Please
> 
> So my primary Linux system (Tumbleweed) has seemed to have bit the dust.
>
> Lenovo Thinkpad P14s Gen 1, built May 2021.   20Y1-S00C00
>
> I had moved it to my primary desk in place of my work laptop and got about
> a day and half use out of it and it halted during a Tumbleweed update.  I
> was in a hurry at the time when I noticed it stopping (Sunday evening) and
> did not think a ton about it at the time.  But it seems to not want to come
> back up.  When yesterday afternoon I got back to it I just thought it would
> boot back up and I would have to back out an update, but no.  At first it
> stuck on the Lenovo splash screen, but  now it will not display anything at
> all.  The fans do turn, however.  I thought maybe I had a charging issue,
> but I was plugged up to a good USB charger all night.
>
> I will probably pull the bottom off of it later today and see if I see
> anything obvious.
>
> I did read on the internet that the integrated GPU in this line will
> sometimes go bad and cause symptoms like this.
>
> Any ideas are welcome.
>
>  Dwain
>