After removing nvidia geforce experience, T5 havent been freezing at all. Problem is somehow related with nvidia drivers.
Lenovo Legion Desktop 5i keeps freezing and bsoding
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Recently, I got a legion 5i, model T5-28IMB05. It's a great pc, it has good specs and it's really fast in games. However, since day one I've been getting random freezing issues. This happens absolutely randomly, but not so often - only once a day.
Whenever I'm doing anything (even something not power-intensive like browsing the web) my pc could freeze and bsod. This is how it looks like: the pc stays on a screen (freezes) then after about a minute it cuts to a blue screen and gives me an error message: DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION.
Every time my pc restarts after the bsod, my realtek audio drivers go missing, and there is no sound coming from the pc, as well as the audio device being hidden in device manager. Strangely enough, after a hard power off (holding the power button) the realtek drivers come back.
Another possibly related issue I've been having is that my wifi card just cuts out during large downloads like steam games. It will be going at full speed, until it drops to 0 mbs and kills the internet for my pc until I restart the wifi.
I've tried doing a fresh install of the newest nvidia driver, did the built in memory check twice, fixed registries with errors in them via a third party application, and I've even done a completely fresh install of windows from a usb stick.
Here are my zipped up .dmp crash logs that include 4 of the latest crashes.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cSuxg3fpD7zykqmJZsVfbyAFHZXxmBPP/view?usp=sharing
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Anonymous
2021-08-01T15:54:03+00:00 -
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2021-08-01T00:31:02+00:00 I too have a Legion T5-28IMB05 with an identical issue to hereforprize. Screen freeze followed by BSOD and error message DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION. Same as hereforprize on rebooting my realtek speakers icon disappears and no sound. This has been happening for approx 1 month.
I contacted Lenovo who requested I send Minidump files and Event Viewer. Their conclusion was the SSD not able to power on after waking from sleep. Lenovo replaced the SSD, a process that amazingly took just 7 days from pick up to return.
For 3 days the PC was fine, no freezes until last night when I had 2 freezes in 20 min. Coincidentally I had just updated the NVIDIA driver from 466.84 (2/12/20) to 471.41 (19/7/21). I have now rolled back to 466.84 and no freezes so far. I know it is early days but I think you are on to something hereforprize. The culprit may well be the latest NVIDIA driver. I wont be updating any time soon.
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Anonymous
2021-07-31T16:26:44+00:00 Hey all, since I removed the nvidia drivers via ddu I haven't been freezing or bsoding at all. However there was an update for the drivers (new ones came out), so I downloaded that, and the pc started freezing again. Did another driver removal via ddu, so far, no freezes. It looks like I either have to do a ddu clean every time i download new nvidia drivers, or not download new drivers at all.
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Anonymous
2021-07-31T09:42:46+00:00 I have the same problem. T5 freezes after approx. 35 minutes from first 24h's turn on.
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Anonymous
2021-07-29T11:00:52+00:00 I have 2 of these desktops and both are having freezes and BSODs as well!
Did this fix your issue eventually?