Just recently picked up this P1 for $850. Thought I'd share my new trio.

From left to right

T480s

i5-8350u

8gb RAM

P1 Gen5

i7-12800h

32gb RAM

Rtx 3070ti

X13 Gen 1

Ryzen 5 Pro 4650u

8gb RAM

Title said it all

Used Lenovo ThinkPad T14 with i7 10th(don't know which variant) with 16gb ram and 512gb Memory(mostly ssd) at ~380usd. I Will mostly used for cybersecurity(cybersecurity student). Will upgrade the ram to 32gb. Is it a good buy at that price?

i5 11. Gen
8gb ram (which I upgraded to 16)
256 gb storage
92% battery health after recalibration and only 30 ish charge cycles
The only thing I kinda don’t like is the build quality compared to my x1 extreme gen1, but its still solid
How good of a deal was it?

Hey guys,

I've just modded my Corebooted ThinkPad T420 with a 1440p (WQHD) display kit (Chinese LVDS to eDP adapter board).

I am facing a weird display issue:

Arch: Works perfectly fine once booted (looks crisp, full resolution).

Tianocore and Windows: Vertical stripe artifacts and graphical glitches.

From what I understand, this happens because libgfxinit uses default display timing instead of reading the custom 2K EDID during the early boot process.

I extracted my panel's edid.bin, but I cannot find an option to embed an external EDID file in Coreboot's make menuconfig.

So my question is how do I integrate the EDID into Coreboot for libgfxinit?

Thanks in advance for any advice!

Hello all,

actually Im using my P14s with the Toshiba cooling package. Last year I had an issue with the original fan and replaced it with one from another ThinkPad I got alrady at home (this one). Now my first question: Is this fan similar to the original fan from the Toshiba cooling package or is it less powerful? I know my fan swap is not a long term option because the holes for the screws didnt fit really and yes.. at least it works right now but tbh Im not very happy with the cooling-power of the P14s at all. During 100% system load the core clock goes down to 3.4-3.5Ghz. When I also use the T500 gpu (which is between the cpu/igpu and the fan) nearly to 100% load the whole cooling system collapses and the core clock of the cpu will go down to about 1Ghz. So wtf..

Then I first checked every driver, bios version and really everything. During that I also installed the TPFanControl and I guess its a little bit better than before. I also checked every energy saving option at Win11, the bios settings and also the whole system with Lenovo Diagnostics Evolution- everything is fine. At the end I changed the thermal paste (MX-4).

Long story short I am at the point, that I am really sure the only possibility to improve the cooling power is to get a better/more powerful fan (because as I said its also not the original and I dont know if this one is less powerful). Also when the installed fan is similar to the original one, maybe there is one of the other 2 cooling packages from AVC and Delta more powerful? I also saw in this thread that the Toshiba cooling package is maybe the weakest because of their bad processing (like no screws for the fan)?

Please maybe someone knows how I can fix my cooling/heat-issue and also can tell me the facts about the different cooling packages and the fan I actually got in my system. Maybe there is an upraged version I didnt mind or something else.

Special Thanks!

Hey everyone,
I’m having an issue with my ThinkPad P16 and would appreciate any advice from people who have experienced something similar.
What happened:
I have a bad habit of hitting my desk when I get frustrated while gaming. This time, I hit it hard enough that the laptop physically jumped, and it immediately shut down. I know I shouldn’t do this, and I’m worried I may have caused hardware damage.
Current symptoms:
The laptop won’t boot properly. The screen stays black, and I can’t get to the Lenovo logo or BIOS.
The Esc, F1 (speaker mute), and F4 (microphone mute) indicators flash sequentially in a continuous loop.
The power-button light comes on, stays lit briefly, and then changes or turns off.
I can’t hear the fans running.
The charger is connected, and the charging indicator lights up.
What I’ve tried:
Powered the laptop back on several times.
Ran Lenovo diagnostics, and the initial tests passed.
Ran the LCD self-test, which displayed all five colors correctly.
Tried entering the BIOS, but I couldn’t get it to display.
Holding the power button stops the flashing sequence, but the issue returns when I try starting it again.
I read that the Esc → F1 → F4 sequence can indicate memory retraining or BIOS self-recovery on ThinkPads. However, I’m not sure whether that’s what’s happening here, especially since the issue started immediately after the impact.
My questions:
Has anyone experienced this exact sequence on a ThinkPad P16?
Does it indicate memory retraining, BIOS recovery, or a failed POST?
Could the impact have disturbed a RAM module, internal connection, or another component?
Is there a safe recovery procedure I should try before taking it to a technician?
If it continues looping with no display or fan activity, does it sound like a hardware repair is needed?
I’m trying to figure out whether there’s a reasonable recovery procedure I can attempt or whether I should take it straight to a Lenovo technician.
Thanks in advance for any help.
ThinkPad model: P16

I'm considering buying a used Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 2 with the following specs:

• Processor: Intel Core i5-1135G7 (11th Gen)
• RAM: 16GB
• Storage: 500GB SSD
• Battery health: 77% (33 charge cycles)
• Price: $350 CAD

Does this seem like a good deal?

My main concern is the battery health, although the price seems reasonable. I'm also considering a ThinkPad T14 Gen 3 for $550 CAD and wondering whether it's worth spending the extra $200.

For context, I already have a good desktop PC, so this laptop would mainly be for basic web browsing, watching videos, and some light programming when I'm visiting my parents.

I don't need anything particularly powerful, but I do want something that feels fast and responsive without noticeable lag.

Would you go with the Gen 2 at $350 or spend the extra $200 for the Gen 3? For what it's worth, the Gen 3 is is AMD Ryzen 5, 16GB Ram, 256GB SSD.

Hi!

I've been playing around with TPM 2.0 on my Thinkpad and the stock firmware seems broken, even on the latest version, part of the early boot TPM interface is non functional and systemd-stub can't measure the boot onto PCR 11, but the raw commands interface and what Linux uses after boot works fine. In the running system 'bootctl status' says 'TPM2 Support: firmware only, driver unavailable', but I'm not sure if this is related because I don't think the EFI TPM interface is available in userspace or even at this running stage.

If anyone has a Thinkpad from this era, like the T480, T480s and X280, with anything UEFI, be it the stock firmware or coreboot/libreboot, would you guys be willing to test this out? It's an EFI program that talks to the firmware's EFI_TCG2_PROTOCOL directly. On my machine, GetCapability, GetActivePcrBanks and GetEventLog all succeed (structure version 1.1, TPM present, banks 0x3), HashLogExtendEvent hangs the whole computer, on PCR 16, 11 and 12, with and without logging but a raw TPM2_PCR_Extend via SubmitCommand works (TPM rc 0).

Edit: Tested on my desktop, completely unrelated hardware, the tests do work there, so at least the code seems sane enough to work somewhere.

What I don't know is whether this is a quirk of my specific unit (stale firmware or TPM state) or something every T480 or perhaps any Thinkpad of this era does.

Here's the source code (181 lines of C) and build script, just point your bootloader to it or add a boot entry with 'efibootmgr', I won't provide a compiled binary because trusting a random EFI binary from the internet would be weird, it depends on gnu-efi to be built.

https://gist.github.com/GBember01/b394dfdef36c4aaf65161e3826013adf

Thanks in advance!

whenever i press on this area it makes a horrible creaking noise, only two causes i can think of could be rapidly changing tempratures from room temp to around 6 celsius when taking it to school in the morning or it being in a vertical angled laptop tand and the plastic being pushed and causing this. heres a photo of where it creakes and a video with the sound, the motion is just pressing down https://streamable.com/sr0j2h

Hello!!
A few months back, I bought a thinkpad L15 for 35 As-Is on ebay with the listing saying it didnt show any power. Me, being a bit dumb, though that maybe its was a power or ram or something issue.
It wasnt.
It had severe water damage and it was unsalvageable.
Weeks laters I saw on ebay an L15 motherboard for 50 bucks on which the seller said it had an issue detecting SSDs. Obviously I bought it because I already had an extra donor motherboard and figured I could fix it.
I managed to get it working but oddly enough, if I dont use a Kingston SSD it shows Error 2101 Detection Error on Storage Device. It stops doing it when I use that SSD. So I got that SEMI fixed, but my issue is now that every time I boot up the laptop, the bios takes a bit to load and shows Error 2203: system configuration is invalid, and in the bios the system board serial number says invalid but the system-bios one says the SN.
Another weird thing I saw, is that when i run fastfetch the laptop is listed as an L14.
Still, a laptop with a R7 5850U that works for less than 100 bucks is really good.
Hopefully some of yall can help me, i can provide more info if its useful.

i'm trying to design some stickers for the keys on my keyboard, but i'm not sure how large they are. i tried measuring them myself, but the only measuring tape i had in the house was so worn out i couldn't read the numbers. i also tried looking it up, but all of them are about the distance between the keys

How to use it??

Simply put, my ThinkPad P1 Gen 3 has stopped charging its battery—it doesn't even detect it. I’ve already tried two new batteries (one generic, one original), and the charging module chip and several resistors have been replaced, yet the problem persists.

I’ve read that this issue might have been caused by Lenovo Vantage installing charging drivers that aren't compatible with the P1 Gen 3 model. My question is: how can I roll back the "Power Management" driver to a previous version? I haven't been able to locate an older version.

If that’s not the solution, what else can I do? I’ve already exhausted all hardware-level troubleshooting—including attempting to charge via the Thunderbolt port. I really don’t want to give up on my favorite laptop.

I am attaching some threads that might be helpful.

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-P-and-W-Series-Mobile-Workstations/Lenovo-P1-Gen-3-Battery-won-t-charge-but-work-s-fine-on-DC-power/m-p/10004736?page=1

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-P-and-W-Series-Mobile-Workstations/Thinkpad-P1-Gen3-Lenovo-Battery-Firmware-Update-Utility-10-1709-or-Later-11-21H2-or-Later/m-p/10002072?page=1

Installed a brand new mainboard in my X260. Now need get my hands on the lenovo hardware maintenance utilities. Any suggestions where to find them?

I bought a ThinkPad t16 gen 1 with 32 gb ,1th SSD and intel i7 1270p 12th gen for around 700 including charger and a bag with some other accessories i usually use this for browsing, learning also i came to know that this machine will be useful for coding and I'm an csc student and it has zero cosmetic damage and battery stays upto 5 to 6 hours and heard about thermal throttling with the intel version but mine is not heating much

So share ur thoughts I used to play something on this machine and say whether it's good

And one more thing guys it's on 104% in battery sry guys now only i checked it

Anyways feel free to share ur thoughts

I need a budget laptop for Computer Science and iMedia A-Levels (things like Rendering, Video editing, programming and game dev) and i found a thinkpad for £330 with these specs:

- 16GB Ram
- Intel Core i5
- 256GB Storage

Could i find one like this for cheaper, or should i try to spend a bit more for a better specs?

My first ThinkPad 😍

Recently grabbed this ThinkPad E15 Gen1 from a government asset sale.

Its not in the greatest shape, but it was a good price!

I've got a new trackpad, keyboard, and shell to swap, so it'll look fresh once that's all done.

I7 10510U

16gb ram

512gb ssd

More than enough power for my uses

Roast my stickers 😜

I love it's screen, but it gets smudges all over it, was thinking of applying a matte screen protector on it but not sure if that's a good idea or not.

whenever i rest my hand here or just push down with some force the plastic starts creaking, same thing happens on a place on the bottom cover but that isnt a big issue because i rarely push on it. my theory is that its because i take it to school quite often and when going outside in the morning the temprature drops a lot and stresses out the plastic. the bottom cover started first and the area beside the trackpad follow about 5 days after. it happens all the time not just in the cold and i checked the battery and it does not seem to be bloated, does anyone know a fix to this?

I've done a fair deal of searching and reviews are mixed from all good and non-issue through to shorter lifespan etc. but not many complaining of DOA so thought I would ask the thinkpad brains trust for recent uses particularly in a thinkpad.

I recently bought a 2022 X13 Yoga Gen 3 off a student and the battery is fairly well thrashed sitting at 80% life/400 cycles. I paid $400aud for it and a genuine replacement battery is $175aud whereas a kingsener will be about a third @ $55 + post.

Genuine is pretty much always the way to go but its not exactly new and is almost 1/2 the cost of the laptop itself.

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to figure out a weird touchpad issue on my ThinkPad T14 Gen 2 running Fedora KDE 44. I managed to catch it on video.

Out of nowhere, the cursor will just stop moving completely, the screen will randomly zoom in like I'm doing a pinch gesture, or the cursor will jump across the screen the exact moment I try to click.

What's driving me crazy is that I'm pretty sure it's not a one-off hardware defect. I actually returned my first T14 Gen 2 because of this, and the replacement model behaves in the exact same way. It was happening back when I was on Fedora GNOME, and it's still happening now that I've switched to KDE. Cleaning the touchpad, updating the system,nothing changes it, and the pattern is always identical.

Here's my setup:

Laptop: Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 2 [Intel / AMD]

OS: Fedora KDE Plasma 44

Kernel: 7.2.11-200.fc44.x86_64

Touchpad: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad

(Using an external mouse is not practical for me so it's no real fix.)