[TriLUG] Advice Please

[Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM Dwain Sims via TriLUG
<trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
      My experience with Macs and bad GPUs: they have the gpu and a
second (intel) one that is built-in the CPU. Boot it in a low
resolution/safe mode (think the "graphics-safe" linux boot) and see if
that works.

> Any ideas are welcome.
>
>   Dwain
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