I won the ebay bidding war at 100€ +p&p for a Thinkpad p14s gen 1 with broken graphics and/or screen.

No ssd (but I have a 256GB spare) and 32GB ram and a hub.

After tinkering yesterday (sometimes it'd boot, all up to a linux on a usb stick before freezing, sometimes not at all) I let it be and continued today. Screen totally black, not a sign except the fan spinning for a second or two at power. No sign on the external screen. Nothing to do it seemed. So I opened it, removed the battery and ran on usb power. No change. Removed the 16GB (the other 16GB is soldered) and lo and behold, it's the ram socket!

So I'm a happy laptop user now 😁!

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[–] [S] 3 points 5 months ago

Did try with a 2666 8GB ok stick, same conundrum.

The interesting part is that according to the manual, the soldered ram is 3200 but runs at 2600 (or 2666 I don't remember). So maybe it has to be 3200 ram for some bizarre reason, and the 16GB one is faulty. Or the slot is bad.

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