ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9

That's the best part; you don't know how widespread this may actually/truly be. Not a lot of users immediately go to Reddit and say "LOOK AT MY GREEN LINE" I worked at Lenovo during the release of the X1 Carbon 9th generation; the internet still has notes on "what was happening" but it's a few spora

Depends on what the actual underlying cause is, which isn't exactly known, only theories. I personally think since the same MOSFET is used in multiple devices and X1C9/X1Y6 is the only ones having significant failure rates, that it's going into thermal runaway situation exacerbated by proximity to m

My current Thinkpad collection, I've owned over 20 Thinkpads over the years and started collecting in the past year or so again: My love: T480s, low power screen upgrade, 24GB of RAM, I love this machine, I used it to work and travel through Mexico with it, USB-C got messed up at the beach and MOBO

The X1C9 has had motherboards in Lenovo's clearance sale here in Europe. They are bound to reappear at some point. @OP: Lenovo has issued a BIOS update to slightly improve the issue. More importantly, it has been recommended to remove the black tape covering the USB-C ICs (both ports have one) and p

I’m in the US. I have had three of the Lenovo 65W ones develop a bad connection close to the USB-C tip. Two took awhile, but the last one less than two months. I have read good things about Anker chargers so thinking about one of them. I will use whatever I get for my X1 Carbon Gen 9 and some other

I've had motherboard replacements done on three of these X1C Gen 9's. I still daily drive one of these alongside a X1 Nano Gen 2 and to sum up my experience and what I've found when researching this online in the past... - There are a few references to mosfets burning themselves out (on Reddit and F

Where are you located? ;D I need help I just started having this issue on my gen9. I started having intermittent screen flicker issues that I couldn't track down but wanted to attribute to the 40an thunderbolt 3 dock + Windows 11. I was running Linux on the machine for months prior with no issues, o