Lenovo Crapped Out Finally

Name even one.

They are designed to BE SERVICEABLE not the opposite.

Some kid's speak and spell maybe, but real computers...

naaaaah.

Ransomware maybe? :(

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

(Coming to you from sunny San Juan Puerto Rico, en route to Antigua tomorrow.) ;)

You will find that with every new machine you buy, with newer OS and other software, you will understand less what it is doing and will have less control over how it spends its resources. (on your actual application or on internal bookkeeping that you deem unnecessary)

I should know better than to say something on this, but I've seen this problem a few times in the past on Lenovo laptops. It turned out to be the Lenovo network card driver. I rolled back the ethernet driver to various previous Lenovo versions, which improved the situation, but didn't fix it. Eventually, we found a driver on the Intel web pile that worked (I had some help on this). Prior to finding that solution, I "solved" the 100% CPU utilization problem by reinstalling the ethernet driver with the most recent version (that was already installed). Why that worked will remain a mystery. Hopefully, Lenovo fixed all this long ago.

Did you run Lenovo System Update?

In order to find problems like this, I suggest that you try using the latest Process Explorer to see what's happening under the covers. The problem is that many processes that start as DLL's are attached to svchost.exe processes, which do a nice job of hiding the culprit. Process Explorer will show these.

Incidentally, I had a similar problem on my home XP machine. 50% CPU utilization forever. If I killed the svchost.exe process that was showing the 50% in the Task Manager, it went away, but so did a bunch of other processes, such as sound and various USB devices. So, I used Process Explorer to see what was running under the svchost.exe process, and killed them one at a time until the CPU utilization dropped to normal (0%). It turned out to be wuauclt, which is Windoze Update check. Since there are no more XP updates, I just disabled Windoze Update and lived happily ever after.

Personally, I like switching to Linux, as nicely documented by John DeArmond. It's not quite that simple as there are a bunch of things that need to be installed after Linux is running, such as the HP printer drivers and the Microsloth TT fonts. For a distribution, I recommend Ubuntu Mate:

Also, tearing apart a Lenovo laptop is quite easy. Unlike some miserable designs that enter through the keyboard bezel, most (not all) Lenovo laptops only require removing a number of screws to remove the bottom cover, when then exposes everything, including the hard disk drive. Lots of disassembly videos on YouTube, Ifixit, and other sites. As John mentioned, you will get a 5x improvement in overall performance with an SSD, but only if your hard disk interface is SATA2 or SATA3. If it's the older SATA1 interface, you'll get about 3x.

Good luck.

They are designed to BE SERVICEABLE not the opposite.

Some kid's speak and spell maybe, but real computers..."

The kid, well he's 25. It is a new laptop running Win 10.

I wouldn't have believed it but there is no reason for him to make it up. I'll try to remember to get the make and model of it.

(you don't believe it after some of the shit Dell and Gateway have done ? really ?)

They are designed to BE SERVICEABLE not the opposite. "

I found out the make and model of the one with the RAM soldered in. It is an HP Extreme.

I am talking about the goddamned hard drive. They all have a bay door or the entire shell detaches.

And for soldered in RAM, it is likely already a maxed out motherboard by design. That also takes up less PCB real estate and profile.

You rebutted me when I mentioned the RAM. I never claimed I heard about a harddrive soldered in.

No, dipshit. You claimed that the machine was not serviceable and we were talking about hard drives in the thread.

Lenovo laptops have hard drive bay access, and that is the point at which I started this.