Lenovo can only send out one part at a time? Really?

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Aczlan
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Lenovo can only send out one part at a time? Really?

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Our Stake Clerk's Lenovo M78 decided yesterday that it wanted to start shooting sparks from the motherboard. Not sure if it was a bad power supply or a bad motherboard, but it was exciting. As such, I called Lenovo this morning to get a new motherboard and power supply coming out.
My expectation (coming from having dealt with Dell and HP Enterprise support) was that they would send a tech with a motherboard, a CPU, RAM and a power supply (as those are the parts most likely to have been damaged by a power surge) and they would replace the parts motherboard, powersupply and then the CPU/RAM if needed.
Instead, I was told that their policy is to send out one part, so they are just going to send out a new motherboard and then if need be, the tech can order a power supply after they arrive.
I politely pointed out that if this was due to a bad power supply sending out too much voltage, they would then need to send out a second motherboard and a power supply but was told that they could only send out one part for a customer call and additional parts had to be ordered by the on site tech.

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Re: Lenovo can only send out one part at a time? Really?

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Are you working through your FM group? They will usually replace the PC and handle any warranty repairs from their end.
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Re: Lenovo can only send out one part at a time? Really?

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The FM group is currently very short staffed (IIRC 4 of their "mechanics" have retired, transferred or quit in the past month including their "computer guy"), so I am trying to avoid adding to their workload if possible.
The techs from the company who Lenovo contracts with for this area called yesterday and after our conversation, he is ordering a power supply because he doesn't want to burn up another board and have to come back out a second time.
He should be out today with a board and a power supply.

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Re: Lenovo can only send out one part at a time? Really?

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Delayed update, but with the new motherboard and power supply, it is fixed. Was not excited about the tech who ended up coming out (he wanted to re-use the original thermal paste and seemed very inexperienced) but so far, so good on the repaired machine.

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