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I own a Lenovo ideapad v310-15IKB with an i5 7th generation with only Intel graphics configuration.
Now the heart of the problem is that I don't know when or how it happened but I suddenly started getting distortion in the graphics output on the LCD. This basically meant a black screen full of flickering multicolored short horizontal lines. This would happen 30-60 minutes after booting and using it normally.
I run Windows 10 20H build so I thought it was just a Windows update issue or graphics driver outdated issue.
I managed to run Windows troubleshooting and restarted in safe mode which seemed to make the problem disappear. Restarting in normal mode resulted in the same issue shortly after boot, mostly even before putting my password.
I decided to shut down the Intel graphics driver which seemed to work, but now I got an awkwardly looking graphics output but it's usable. At least, until I realized in place of the sudden distortion, the LCD just goes black after the same amount of time. As if in place of the distortion from the disabled drivers, the LCD just disconnects.
I immediately tried a Windows reset as my first instinct. Starnge enough after preparing the reset from Windows environment and going into restart to complete the reinstalling,, the PC just stuck with a black screen and a fan spinning at its highest rpm.
I did some further investigations including trying a bios settings reset and that's when I started to realize how serious this was. The PC after selecting save and exit in bios, would just hang with the screen black and the fans spinning at maximum. Identical to when restating it in windows. I installed a secondary OS, remix OS from the android-x86 project and it boots up fine with no graphics distortion problem but it doesn't restart there either. Same problem in bios, Windows and Android OS environments. However shutdown seems to work fine but just not restart option.
I immediately knew that if bios can't restart either then it's probably a corrupted bios issue. But now here is where the problem is, I got my bios update downloaded and ready. It executes in windows OK and prepares everything just like it's supposed to. And then, it has to restart for the capsule update. Which is where this bug kicks in and stops it from restating.
In essence I can't update any firmware related to bios nor can I reset the PC or boot a new copy of windows..
I never thought I'd learn the importance of the restart option I've taken for granted all along in such a cruel way.
Also, I tried to boot Linux to maybe utilize fwupdate software to try and create a storage bootable capsule update since the problem is that I can only start from cold boot and I need the bios update to initiate from a cold boot state like from USB etc.
But when I boot Linux, an OS I believed to overcome alot of hardware bugs and driver issues due to its open source community, I was welcomed with the same distorted screen from Windows had graphics driver right off the bat. The moment it loads from grub it's completely a mess of lines. It however works in compatibility mode but even I can tell it's long code of start-up check list has quite a number of detected bugs.
I don't know what else is wrong with the PC apart from the restarting issue but I can say that the hard drive has been running slow ever since the distortion started happening and it the fun is more noisy now even though it's not really hot.
I believe it's a bios issue of partial corruption and I would like to fix it if possible coz I can't afford a new motherboard option at the moment.
Note: I tried the official Lenovo support advice and other similar approach like resetting RTC and disconnecting the entire board and power drain etc. Nothing worked. Bios reset didn't really work either. And nothing seems amiss from the bios it's self only the restart bug.
I would like any help that includes getting dirty with the board it's self or getting it to flash the capsule update from USB etc. Any ideas and suggestions are welcome
I own a Lenovo ideapad v310-15IKB with an i5 7th generation with only Intel graphics configuration.
Now the heart of the problem is that I don't know when or how it happened but I suddenly started getting distortion in the graphics output on the LCD. This basically meant a black screen full of flickering multicolored short horizontal lines. This would happen 30-60 minutes after booting and using it normally.
I run Windows 10 20H build so I thought it was just a Windows update issue or graphics driver outdated issue.
I managed to run Windows troubleshooting and restarted in safe mode which seemed to make the problem disappear. Restarting in normal mode resulted in the same issue shortly after boot, mostly even before putting my password.
I decided to shut down the Intel graphics driver which seemed to work, but now I got an awkwardly looking graphics output but it's usable. At least, until I realized in place of the sudden distortion, the LCD just goes black after the same amount of time. As if in place of the distortion from the disabled drivers, the LCD just disconnects.
I immediately tried a Windows reset as my first instinct. Starnge enough after preparing the reset from Windows environment and going into restart to complete the reinstalling,, the PC just stuck with a black screen and a fan spinning at its highest rpm.
I did some further investigations including trying a bios settings reset and that's when I started to realize how serious this was. The PC after selecting save and exit in bios, would just hang with the screen black and the fans spinning at maximum. Identical to when restating it in windows. I installed a secondary OS, remix OS from the android-x86 project and it boots up fine with no graphics distortion problem but it doesn't restart there either. Same problem in bios, Windows and Android OS environments. However shutdown seems to work fine but just not restart option.
I immediately knew that if bios can't restart either then it's probably a corrupted bios issue. But now here is where the problem is, I got my bios update downloaded and ready. It executes in windows OK and prepares everything just like it's supposed to. And then, it has to restart for the capsule update. Which is where this bug kicks in and stops it from restating.
In essence I can't update any firmware related to bios nor can I reset the PC or boot a new copy of windows..
I never thought I'd learn the importance of the restart option I've taken for granted all along in such a cruel way.
Also, I tried to boot Linux to maybe utilize fwupdate software to try and create a storage bootable capsule update since the problem is that I can only start from cold boot and I need the bios update to initiate from a cold boot state like from USB etc.
But when I boot Linux, an OS I believed to overcome alot of hardware bugs and driver issues due to its open source community, I was welcomed with the same distorted screen from Windows had graphics driver right off the bat. The moment it loads from grub it's completely a mess of lines. It however works in compatibility mode but even I can tell it's long code of start-up check list has quite a number of detected bugs.
I don't know what else is wrong with the PC apart from the restarting issue but I can say that the hard drive has been running slow ever since the distortion started happening and it the fun is more noisy now even though it's not really hot.
I believe it's a bios issue of partial corruption and I would like to fix it if possible coz I can't afford a new motherboard option at the moment.
Note: I tried the official Lenovo support advice and other similar approach like resetting RTC and disconnecting the entire board and power drain etc. Nothing worked. Bios reset didn't really work either. And nothing seems amiss from the bios it's self only the restart bug.
I would like any help that includes getting dirty with the board it's self or getting it to flash the capsule update from USB etc. Any ideas and suggestions are welcome
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