So it seems it has something to do with video playback or at the very least YouTube. I was just troubleshooting now and I was able to play stardew valley for around 30 min or so. I close out of the game, open a YouTube video, and it freezes in about two minutes
this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2023
5 points (100.0% liked)
ThinkPad
1419 readers
8 users here now
IBM and Lenovo ThinkPad laptop enthusiasts!
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
Mine would do this. It was a t440s. Had something to do with Firefox. Running Wayland. Corresponded to a kernel update every so often.
I had a theory it had something to do with Firefox but it froze in chrome too. Thanks though! I think at this point its probably something going on with the motherboard
My T440p had WiFi issues that would eventually cause a hard lock. Sadly it's not easy to change the hardware because you have to use a whitelisted module (or change the whitelist, which is also a pain).
Not sure if that's at all related though, plenty of other possibilities.
I tried removing the WiFi module but it still freezes. Thanks for the suggestion though!
As far as I know about T440p (I dont have it, but my friend does) there's so many issues with the hardware. From my experience on my friend's laptop and searching on every Thinkpad forum, every problem start arised when owner updating the BIOS on Windows with Lenovo Vantage.
The easiest solution for me about every major problem like this is flashing the BIOS with OG BIOS that you can search or request it on every Thinkpad Forum who own T440p, and flashing Coreboot or Libreboot. There's some problem like battery threshold cannot be set anymore need to tinkering on the hardware that I saw on Github (I don't save the link, but you can easily search that with this keyword).
That's pretty disappointing. I bought it because of it's "bulletproof" reputation or at least that's what I've heard. I think I only got two years out of it. It was used but you know. It looks like I can get a new motherboard for $30 or so but I'm not quite sure that I feel like tearing into it that much, especially if they're known to have issues