for Y400 too?? No wonder my Y400 temperature reach 100celcius when i play Far Cry 3 recently   

i think not much to worry on that department with the mentioned skins... if the keyboard is part of the cooling system, the air is vented out through the gaps of the keyboards and I dont see the skins close the gaps based on the picture... dont know the real thing...

though, if that's the case isn't playing games on the laptop is very uncomfortable? since you hand is in touch with heat all the time and it's not like part of hand, pretty sure your whole arm is heated up... man, i can't even stand with only my wrist burning up.

my y500 really using my 32gb msata to the max with VM... loving it damn fast

using as cache? what brand? mine is samsung

dunno ler but hdd or ssd always like that one, some got use for system file as they say

BTW to any one update their Windows 8 Pro to Windows 8.1 Pro and get this error:
SecureBoot isn't configured properly
I got a solution can solve (only for Y480/Y580)
First u may download 5DCN87WW BIOS (mine one is from 5DCN40WW [Win 7 BIOS] previously) and flash this BIOS
(I'm not 100% sure that every machine will be flash successfully, mine is success, please do on ur risk)
http://www.mediafire.com/?r1h3prqy6d97g93
after that ur laptop will be restarted, notice the message still there, it's normal since it still no complete yet.
now restart ur laptop and once it appear "Lenovo" logo press F2 continuously.
It will go inside the BIOS menu.
Inside BIOS, go "Security" -> "Restore Factory Keys", then "Exit"-> "Exit and Save Change"
if still din disappear, go back to BIOS and "Security" tab, but click "Reset to Setup Mode"-> then "Restore Factory Keys", then "Exit"-> "Exit and Save Change"

This should fix that problem, just update the new SecureBoot key for Win 8/8.1 in UEFI mode

If for Y400/Y500/Y410p/Y510p, since the BIOS preload and the updates is for Windows 8 already, so I think the BIOS got that kind of function too

i try to refresh at action -> refresh still failed..restart many times already
the disk 1 i believed is the external hdd

mine is y400.. my currently driver is 331.58 version

Wow, what temps u are running on ? scare mine will become too one day =X

it's funny. one of my gpu also just got burned. sent to sc  for clames yesterday. either it's window 8.1 or nvidia drivers.

cuz running at high temps ?

do you update to win 8.1? many user face dis problem after update to win 8.1

how do you do that ? i once upgrade to win 8.1 through microsoft store, but later the perfomance become so laggy...then i recover back to win 8

so first u upgrade to 8.1 from microsoft store, then reinstall all the lenovo driver for 8.1 and download those driver from lenovo website?

Booting up my Lenove Y580 seems slow. Using the original preloaded Windows 8 and my laptop does not have a SSD.

I plan to do a clean OS install but how to do it without losing the preloaded Windows 8 license?

Any ideas?

Guys, anyone having problem with shutting down or restarting?

It'll shutdown as normal, screen dim, then hangs there while the power button still lighted.
Using Windows 8.1.

What did u use to scan? Which software?
When i shutdown, it'll turn off the screen but the fan & keyboard light is still on.
Only when i insert or remove any usb plug, then it'll totally shutdown. Kinda weird.
I updated all drivers already, tried most of the solution except scanning for malware.

currently using y410p..
how to resize d drive partition in order to save windows recover image.?
already shrink c drive partition with administrator tool-->disk manager.