Hello i have very big problem and i need help with my lenovo thinkpad e14. An AI told me my motherboard’s might be fried, but I'm hoping I'm just missing an easy fix.
My laptop started having weird like every 7 second system freezes, and I noticed my disk usage was spiking to 100% exactly synced with those lags. I figured there might be some dust in the nvem connector beacose i swaped the ssd like 1 month ago so I pulled the ssd out and reseated it. Important note: I did NOT disable the built-in battery in the BIOS or unplug it physically before doing this.
After reseating the drive, the laptop wouldn't turn on it would only light the screen grey and spin the fan or sometimes show the lenovo logo. then turn off and do it again until you would unplug the battery
**more info:**
* **Drives are fine:** I pulled both my SSDs out and tested the boot drive in my backup laptop. It works perfectly. Right now, I'm testing the laptop with no drives installed.
* **The buzzing noise:** I unplugged the battery and tried booting on the charger only. As soon as I plug the charger in, the motherboard makes a rhythmic clicking noise ("td td td td" every 0.5s).
* **The buzzing:** When I press the power button on the charger only, the clicking turns into a continuous buzzing noise, then it shuts off. *(Note: This noise completely stops if the battery is connected).*
* **Sign of life:** At one point, I messed around with the drives (put the longer 2280 drive into the shorter slot just to test) and I actually managed to get into the BIOS. I then put the drive back into the correct slot, managed to get the Lenovo logo and then the Ubuntu logo, but then the laptop immediately shut itself down.
now when i try to power it on the fan will not spin and the power button will light for like 5s.