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I put a price watch on the smaller iFixit kit - I really doubt I'd ever use most of the bits on those +100 piece kits anyways. I do have a small enough screwdriver to tackle the screws on my Lenovo, so no need to rush out and buy anything, ATM. That said, something bad really needs to happen to the person(s) that unleashed those damn plastic tabs on the world. Almost lost a fingernail trying to pry the case open - even using a makeshift pick. I really miss my old MSi, where I only had to remove one screw to take off the maintenance panel (not to mention just having a maintenance panel and not needing to disassemble the entire laptop just to clean it)

I've had my laptop for just over 1 year now, and I figure it's about time to crack it open and give it a good cleaning - and maybe replace the garbage wifi card and upgrade the RAM. I have plenty of screwdrivers and such, but nothing for working on smaller things so I was thinking about getting an actual electronic repair kit. I can't justify paying $100CAD for the ifixit kit, but I'd like something better than the $10 Chinese junk Amazon is selling. Can anybody recommend a decently priced good quality set?

I was trying to brain this out with the help of somebody on another site. Supposedly, when the screen turns off, the machine will go into standby mode. Doesn't matter if anything is actually running or not - screen off = standby. So, the annoying thing is that disabling modern standby doesn't actually help on my machine. Sure everything indicates S0 is disabled, but the exact same symptoms occur. Best we could come up with is that the method for disabling S0 isn't 100% effective for my machine. It could be driver, BIOS, or just the fact S0 is garbage (from my research, it seems like different machines are affected in different ways and what works for 1 person doesn't mean it'll work for everyone.) At this point, I give up and will just use a workaround - disable screen off and use a blank screen saver instead. I could also disable the screen off and lid close options, but then I'd need to retrain myself on different hibernate methods since I current have the lid close set to hibernate.

Reminds me of an old MSi I had. One day after cleaning the fan out, I decided to leave the maintence hatch off (this was back in the day when you didn't have to completely tear down the laptop to clean it). The fan noise dropped to next to nothing. Turns out it was the sound of the air passing through the vent slots that was creating the high pitch whisting noise - not the fan itself. As a bonus the machine was running 10° cooler with the hatch off. Looking at the tiny slots on the bottom of my Legion it wouldn't be surprising that they could be creating a whistling sound.

I've been meaning to try dGPU mode for ages, just never got around to it. Anyhow, I finally did over the weekend and same problem. Personally, I'm thinking it's a bios issue. Nobody I've chatted with that has an older Legion has this issue and I'm guessing they still have S3 support baked in. If it didn't reek of effort, I'd install Win. 11 and see if that helps (Lenovo seems to have gone full-in on 11, so it wouldn't surprise me if Win 10 was getting hobbled because of it), but in all honesty, I have no interest in leaving LTSC behind either.

I grabbed the 3060 version earlier this summer and no regrets - I'm not nearly into gaming enough to pay the extra $$ for the 3070 (but mine does have 2 1TB drives installed). I absolutely love the battery life of the AMD - I'm getting ~8 hrs. My issue with sleep is the damned "modern standby" that's being forced down our throats - I really hope Lenovo brings S3 back Out of curiosity… when your screen turns off, does the machine go into standby mode? I've tried disabling that, but it don't help. I can be running Cinebench and once the screen turns off, the machine throttles down @KING19 suggested possible driver issues. just wondering what your machine does

I've tried a couple different AMD & Nvidia drivers with no real change. Currently I'm on Nvidia v. 522.25 and AMD v. 22.5.1. I have used NVcleaninstall and went driver only for the AMD, so maybe that has something to do with it. I'm also running Win.10 and Lenovo seems to be firmly in the Win11 camp so I'm on my own regarding drivers (actually, the Lenovo Win11 drivers seem to work fine for me, but I tend to stick to manf. drivers just in case)

I'll followup on the 5 Pro thread, since that's what I have

I'm way late to this party so I'm not sure if still relevant. I had the same issue with old Nvidia drivers not installing. My work-around was to use the "add hardware support" function in NVcleaninstall

I'm not sure it's actually a driver issue as much as the fly covered PoS MS calls "modern standby" and Lenovo's absolute lack of understanding how to use it. I haven't had the issues that @saturnotaku has, but more than enough other problems with it. Probably the biggest outstanding issue is that anytime my screen turns off the damn machine will go into standby mode - even if I disable modern standby. I tested this running Cinebench, with my screen off set at 1 min. A couple seconds after the screen turns off, the fans will ramp down as CB get throttled to hell. The only way I can stop this from happening (you'd think the OS would be smart enough to realize 100% CPU use is reason enough not to use standby) is to not shut my screen off, which is a total PITA when I'm doing a render or something similar. At this point my only hope is that Lenovo bring back a proper S3 sleep mode in a FW update - but I'm not holding my breath. *after proof reading, I see this is a Legion 5 thread and I have a Legion 5 pro, so my experience might not be relevant. Apologies if that's the case

Nothing on my Legion 5 Pro (16ARH7H) yet, but I'll probably replace the garbage Realtek wifi card with an Intel AX210 before the years out.

You're probably right. I first got that advice back when I was using a whopping 128GB msata drive in my old Acer Nitro

Does this mean that we can disregard the advice of not using hibernate on a SSD based device? I'm really getting PO'd with this modern standby garbage that is being pushed and since S3 sleep is not an option (thanks Lenovo), hibernate might be my only choice

So I'm new to this Samsung stuff. Does Magician ever offer more support for OEM drives? I got a couple of SAMSUNG MZVL21T0HCLR-00BL2 in my Legion 5 pro and of course SM won't actually do anything with them. Finally, does SM really do anything useful in the first place? - like I said, I'm new here

Assuming you're in Canada (why else would you mention CAD), who's your ISP? I'm paying way more than $54 through Shaw for a measly 25 Mbps (75Mbps is $85CAD)