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 Lenovo IdeaPad Y Series Thread v2, When Y480/580 meet Y400/500

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xyz_cityhunter
post Jan 16 2013, 10:32 PM

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QUOTE(arju @ Jan 16 2013, 09:46 PM)
OKR button not working?
u swap the HDD to caddy?
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You can try this method... a bit of a roundabout way but it works... thumbup.gif
QUOTE(xyz_cityhunter @ Jan 6 2013, 02:05 AM)
Was testing something and i accidentally clean my whole SSD cry.gif  so i decided to experiment something which end up that it works. icon_idea.gif  Now on my SSD i have dual boot OS of Win7 and Win8... rclxm9.gif
1. You will need to do a recovery media of your Win8 which you will need a 16GB pendrive or ext. HDD, by following this: http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/...?DocID=HT076024
2. On your SSD, format and split the partition accordingly if you need 2 type of OS on it. If not then just leave it as it is...
3. Install Win7 on the partition which you wish to recover your Win8 into, so this step is just to create a dummy so that the recovery media will enable you to do recovery onto that partition.
4. Finish the Win7 installation until you can get into the desktop wallpaper screen, plug in your recovery media pendrive/ext. HDD and then restart without any need for driver or software installation.
5. Press F12 so that you can choose the bootup media to your USB recovery media.
6. From here onward again you can follow the instructions from the link above and then wait for the recovery to be done...
7. After finish, you will see the Win8 like a freshly installed ones but all the drivers will still be intact so no need to do driver installations, unless for the graphic drivers that you want to update to the newest.
8. And for me, i plug in the Win7 installation pendrive again and then reboot to install the Win7 on my other partition. So on every startup i will get to choose Win7 or Win8 for the bootup. icon_rolleyes.gif
That's all folks~! thumbup.gif
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post Jan 21 2013, 08:25 AM

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Hm, any Y580 users here that's playing a lot of Dota2? Just encounter some minor issue after playing around 3 hours of Dota2, i saw the background(the burning fire) behind the main page will be lagging and when i type some msg also will see some lag with the time i type and the time the msg appear on screen... Weird that just right before that page, i was in game and there's no apparent lag at all...
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post Feb 4 2013, 10:27 AM

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Hm, any Y580 users here using HDD in caddy in ODD bay? Somehow my HDD sometimes got some soft of bug where it is detected but not operating correctly... Maybe i should take it out and remount it...
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post Feb 5 2013, 06:54 PM

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Anyone here updated the Intel 7 Series Chipset?
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post Feb 5 2013, 11:24 PM

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QUOTE(chopin @ Feb 5 2013, 09:36 PM)
what's the latest version?
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11.6.x.xxxx i believe, not sure...

QUOTE(tennytyy @ Feb 5 2013, 09:54 PM)
What is this for?
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The SATA ACHI controller...

Not sure if one of my friend gone to update it for me last time and sometimes my laptop HDD is detected but cannot view the content inside, but all this happens on random occurrence... rclxub.gif Hopefully not my ODD bay SATA connector problem cry.gif
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post Feb 23 2013, 07:59 PM

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Hm, anyone here got the free 3 years McAfee Internet Security ecard? Previously they said this McAfee slow/disturb the Wifi is the free version or already the registered version of the McAfee?
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post Feb 23 2013, 08:32 PM

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What was the problem actually when using this McAfee? Capped Wifi speed or reduced Wifi reception or something else?
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post Feb 23 2013, 08:59 PM

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QUOTE(mrl @ Feb 23 2013, 08:48 PM)
same with me tongue.gif
if people do comments for the reduced wifi speed, I think it's either the McAfee trying to scan the data that comes in for malicious codes or the CPU resource is being used so much that it starts to cap everything. I know for certain that McAfee is resource hogger... I dont think wifi signal reception is affected.
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QUOTE(jotaro12 @ Feb 23 2013, 08:53 PM)
If it's Internet Security, they'll monitor the network data which is why when you disable their firewall, especially during torrent, you'll get back your usual speed... it's up to you if you want to be safe or a bit slow during downloading and stuff.  smile.gif
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Oh, let me try and see... i only got the ecard after 2 months i purchase Y580 from my vendor, if not nice then just ditch this and use Trendmicro which my cousin gave me... whistling.gif
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post Feb 23 2013, 09:32 PM

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QUOTE(mrl @ Feb 23 2013, 08:59 PM)
yup, that's what I suspected too... but I didn't notice any slowdown on my working laptop so I can't say for certain...
to be safe or a bit slow? "I like to live dangerously"  laugh.gif  tongue.gif
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Confirmed that the Firewall dragging down the download speed... off it and i'm happy with just the Antivirus rolleyes.gif since that i always do visit some risky website. If you know what i mean... whistling.gif
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post Mar 4 2013, 09:55 PM

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Gr... still facing some intermittent HDD not running problem using caddy, now switch my SSD and HHD to see if the caddy is giving the problem or the HDD... hopefully not the SATA port... anyone got same issue as me?
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post Mar 10 2013, 11:03 PM

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Anyone tried walk in service center for HDD replacement? Need to give the whole laptop to them for a few days or just a few hours can settle?

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post Mar 24 2013, 07:37 PM

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Anyone using USB speaker here? I'm using a Philips DGX320 and somehow the volume seems limited, not sure if the Lenovo Onekey Theater or the Realtek HD Audio that's causing the problem... anyone know how to solve this?
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post Mar 24 2013, 09:57 PM

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QUOTE(eatsleepnDIE @ Mar 24 2013, 08:35 PM)
well, if you see the cons here [http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1763786,00.asp] seems that the volume level is low
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hmm.gif Maybe... but last time i use with my previous laptop feels the volume are higher than now... maybe different video/audio or something... yawn.gif
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post Mar 28 2013, 10:41 PM

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QUOTE(eatsleepnDIE @ Mar 24 2013, 10:10 PM)
couldnt help you there friend  sad.gif
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QUOTE(kuroneko0509 @ Mar 25 2013, 02:02 AM)
Probably Onekey Theater... Tried with all mode?
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Seems that it's just the movie videos i played got some low volume... try playing Dota2 and the opening Valve screen sound scared the shit out of me with full volume... doh.gif
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post Apr 25 2013, 01:44 PM

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Any Y580 user here which got the slim 7mm Hitachi HDD along with their unit?
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