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Spent 4 hours on a dead Lenovo ThinkPad that just needed a BIOS reset
Customer brought in a ThinkPad T480 that wouldn't post, and I went deep down the rabbit hole checking RAM, the CPU, even reflowing the board. Honestly, it was just a corrupted BIOS from a failed update, fixed with the reset jumper on the motherboard in about 30 seconds after I found it. Anyone else have a simple fix that took forever to figure out?
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thomas_johnson355d ago
Four hours for a jumper? That's rough...
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stellag214d ago
Tell me about it. I once spent a whole afternoon taking apart a laptop to check a hard drive, only to realize the power strip under the desk was switched off. The customer watched me do the whole thing. I wanted to just melt into the floor. Those simple fixes that hide in plain sight are the absolute worst for your pride.
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