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I used to work at a company that bought bulk electronics and refurbished them. Phones, laptops, whatever. Flooded crates of laptops weren't an issue, nor was human feces.
Anyway, since we weren't really an official partner of any of the manufacturers, we didn't have whatever in-house repair guides their own technicians would have. But what we did have was Google. And I'll tell you what, just google "Lenovo (model name) HMM" (Hardware Maintenance Manual) and you get an excellent official guide, freely available to everyone. For Thinkpads anyway, not sure about Ideapads. Example: Here's the current gen Snapdragon version of the T14s, on Lenovo's own website. They seem to keep older ones available too.
But to be fair, HP and Dell also do this for their professional gear.