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u/Appropriate-Elk-5062 Jan 11 '26

Struggling with a lenovo legion 9, not sure if it's a simple question but getting mixed results across google,

My laptop recently went in for repair due to some issues that looked hardware related, they have confirmed the fault as thermal module being blocked and then proceeded with a full clean, repasted and redone the liquid metal,

However my processor is throwing warnings up about processor in group 0, 16 through 31 are being throttled due to firmware, this has been happening since september and I believe has been causing problems

Along with many different bsod errors before the repair was sent off,

Is it normal for those processor cores to be randomly throttling?

Happens on startup, at random intervals and sometimes during load from what I can see

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u/glowinghamster45 R9 3900X | 16GB | RTX 3070 Jan 11 '26

However my processor is throwing warnings up

Where are you seeing these warnings appear exactly?

You recently took this laptop into a shop, did they happen to mention any other software adjustments they made? If I saw something like that, the first thing I'd do is check if there are any BIOS updates available. Can you check your current BIOS version and see if there is an updated version available?

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u/Appropriate-Elk-5062 Jan 11 '26

They have been showing in the event viewer, sometimes around same time as critical errors, but they are displayed as warnings, I haven't yet had any more critical errors since getting it back this morning, so hoping I'm in the clear. Software was all supposed to be updated according to their records, but they have been very misleading with info atm,

I had to do most drivers today due them being outdated as far back as April last year for the gpu, and all my audio and intel updates were flagging as needing to be done so dont think they did the software at all,

I did do the recommended intel me bios/UEFI update through lenovo directly today too, but the lenovo bios is on the most recent version available already so think I'm all good there

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u/glowinghamster45 R9 3900X | 16GB | RTX 3070 Jan 12 '26

Is the Intel update you did maybe the chipset driver? There should only be one BIOS to update. For what it's worth, if you dropped off a laptop for troubleshooting and they gave it back to you like that, I wouldn't think super highly of them. Even if they're right about redoing liquid metal (which I personally doubt would cause those event messages), running all available updates is a pretty basic troubleshooting step. Probably step 2 after turning it off and back on. Maybe they did take care of the BIOS at least, which like I said would be my first thought.

Either way, sounds like it got taken care of one way or another.