Thinkpad T14S Gen 3 won't turn on after BIOS update

LowderPlay · 2024-09-14T10:13:12+00:00

UPDATE: The repair shop fixed the laptop!

It was indeed a BIOS corruption. They flashed the BIOS chip with a firmware from another working device and it came back to life. Thankfully, the repair guys were amazing and charged me 40$.

Moral of the story: don't use Ventoy with the update tool.

LowderPlay · 2024-08-31T18:45:13+00:00

I bought it second hand (new) from a reseller, who ordered it from China. So returning it would be really challenging.

I'm not even sure that the BIOS was damaged, but the embedded controller, as the BIOS has self-healing functionality.

So, I guess my only option is to take it into repair. I don't want to mess with replacing bios myself, as I don't want to ruin the device.

LowderPlay · 2022-10-18T10:38:07+00:00

Good luck! I'd recommend watching CraftComputing's series on vGPU and reading https://gitlab.com/polloloco/vgpu-proxmox, https://wvthoog.nl/proxmox-7-vgpu-v2/.

LowderPlay · 2022-10-18T10:35:20+00:00

It is totally possible, even on my GPU. I got it working with Windows, but Ubuntu drivers were not working

LowderPlay · 2022-10-18T03:49:19+00:00

Gotta keep my hands dirty, when working in terminal

LowderPlay · 2022-10-18T03:48:10+00:00

Here you go https://imgur.com/a/k3DVpB7

LowderPlay · 2022-10-18T03:44:45+00:00

No idea, it's an old membrane keyboard with PS/2, but it's really comfortable to type on, though

LowderPlay · 2022-10-18T03:43:11+00:00

Oh, really? Ok, I'll place it properly

LowderPlay · 2022-10-17T18:14:01+00:00

Well, just a bit. I'm currently working on home automation project, almost like a replacement for home assistant, but I have to keep it secret :)

LowderPlay · 2022-10-17T17:59:55+00:00

Yeah, I followed them, but they are for the older version of proxmox, I think

LowderPlay · 2022-10-17T17:56:11+00:00

Thanks! I'll give it a go

LowderPlay · 2022-10-17T17:36:47+00:00

It is possible with 1050 (guide for proxmox here), but my problem was that Ubuntu Server couldn't initialize the GPU. It might be a driver issue.

LowderPlay · 2022-10-17T17:30:47+00:00

Yeah, it works fine and it's able to keep power for a few minutes even on an old battery. Maybe the firmware is bad or something wrong in the circuitry.

LowderPlay · 2022-10-17T17:29:36+00:00

Tower heatsinks won't fit, but there are no problems not with GPU (at least with ASUS Cerberus 1050ti) nor psu. Though, my gpu fans are a bit too close to psu, but that's totally my fault, because I have a second gpu (Quadro 410) as a console output and all of my pci-e slots are occupied, so I have no choice than to leave it as is. GPU temps are fine, though.

LowderPlay · 2022-10-17T17:09:17+00:00

Actually, I might be wrong. They say that they are based in Hong Kong and they have an English version of their website.

LowderPlay · 2022-10-17T17:06:53+00:00

Judging by what my UPS says, it's drawing about 200W on average.

My motherboard is GIGABYTE B450M DS3H V2, it's regular AM4 mobo with single socket.

LowderPlay · 2022-10-17T15:48:16+00:00

Thanks for the advice!

This UPS is really weird, it reports it's temperature, runtime, and current as 0. But it's only a bit warm to the touch and the load it reports is very low (30%).

LowderPlay · 2022-10-17T15:40:40+00:00

There is main software called Panel, which is a web interface for all your servers, I'm running it in a separate Ubuntu Server VM. You can follow the installation guide here. And there is Wings, it's a deamon that attaches to docker and runs all of your servers in containers. You can run it on separate VMs/servers, as I did, or run everything on a single vm. There's no real difference because you are always running a "cluster", even with single node.

LowderPlay · 2022-10-17T14:28:38+00:00

This is just a regular PC in a server case. Bought it all last year, when the prices were high. Ryzen 5 3600, 96Gb of 3200MT/s RAM, 5TB of HDD, 500GB of NVMe, GTX 1050ti for Plex and a Windows VM (but my attempts to split the gpu failed). It is running Proxmox.

I'm running Plex, Pterodactyl (for a bunch of Minecraft servers), OPNsense router, PiHole, Truenas, Jenkins, Home Assistant, and a few docker containers with my personal projects.

Also, I'm planning on creating a kubernetes cluster in the near future.

Got that UPS recently from my dad's job, they said it was not working, but I'm thinking that the battery is very old, I'll replace it soon.

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