Lenovo amaze me

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A friend gave me a Lenovo 3000 desktop PC to troubleshoot.
I opened the case and found the mainboard is
GA-G31M-S2L
Eh?
Companies like HP used bespoke mainboards from Foxconn, MSI, ECS or whoever.
One HP I had the mainboard was chip-for-chip the same as a retail MSI
board, just different BIOS. Presumably they did this to stop people
upgrading, and buy a new PC in 18 months.
So Lenovo just use a normal board. Mind you it is not very upgradable
anyway due to the crippled Intel 31 chipset.

 

[DevilsPGD]

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A friend gave me a Lenovo 3000 desktop PC to troubleshoot.
I opened the case and found the mainboard is
GA-G31M-S2L
Eh?
Companies like HP used bespoke mainboards from Foxconn, MSI, ECS or whoever.
One HP I had the mainboard was chip-for-chip the same as a retail MSI
board, just different BIOS. Presumably they did this to stop people
upgrading, and buy a new PC in 18 months.
So Lenovo just use a normal board. Mind you it is not very upgradable
anyway due to the crippled Intel 31 chipset.

This is one of the things that makes Lenovo awesome: industry standard
parts where applicable, upgradable and user-serviceable parts where
custom parts are needed (laptops, in particular)

 

[Yousuf Khan]

This is one of the things that makes Lenovo awesome: industry standard
parts where applicable, upgradable and user-serviceable parts where
custom parts are needed (laptops, in particular)

This is good to know. Must be why they're now the #1 PC maker.

Yousuf Khan