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• Please help lenovo y500 crahed

  feel free to talk to me like I'm stupid because I think I have bricked my y500. He has the 1 TB HDD 16 gb ssd 650 m nvidia initially had win 8. About 6 months ago, it crashed and I did a clean install of win 8.1 (paid 60.00 - reason #1 im a fool and you can talk to me as well). «well the its crashed again 2 nights ago and I've done everything I can as stealthily around the internet, solutions and talking to my brother who "knows computers ' lawl (#2 reason) and since then everything on my computer is deleted (Yes all partitions) because that's what he told me.» I'd like to resurrect my pc and reinstall win 8.1 on it (ive tried to install ubuntu but just on the boot... splash screen for always and I don't know if I can self-educate just use ubuntu) if anyone can help me walk through the resurrection of my pc id sure appreciate it. I will not spend hundreds of take it to the pc store and making them do the work, id rather just buy a new macbook pro (but #1 I would just keep my y500) if I can revive it I will install an ssd where the hard drive is and make the external hard drive and put something in the housing ultrabay and upgrade (msata?) 16 gb ssd. as I said explain it to me as I am new to computers and to walk me through it, better than you can, I'm going to pay attention to the updates on this thread, thank you very much in advance!

  Tyler

  Can you send me a link where I can download it? Everywhere wherever I tried it asks for the product key which Hi try my 8.1 and it won't accept it.

• Help with settings Y500 SLI

  I just bought a Lenovo Y500 about a week ago and I noticed that the laptop uses only two graphics cards when it is connected to the power adapter. However, when I unplug it, it will only use a single graphics card. So, how can I get the system to use the two cards of the same when I am disconnected?

  To use the SLI (two graphics cards), it requires the 170w adapter to run at maximum performance. The battery can run a graphics card because she needs more power to run two.

• HELP: NVidia GeForce GT750M Y500 does not.

  So here's the situation:

  I got my Lenovo Ideapad Y500 two days before and as usual I have update the OS with a new installation of Windows 8 because I don't like the bloatware that would come with a laptop. anyway. I went through the normal procedure of installing a new windows, and then when it came to choose which partition to install on, this game me several options which I was confused about. So I deleted all existing partitions and installed Windows 8 on a new vacuum.

  Long story short, I deleted the recovery partition and now my One - Key no longer works, but honestly, this isn't a big problem for me.

  However what is a big deal, it's that my GT750M graphics card is no longer a professional activity or at least be recognized. In "Device Manager" and under "graphics card", I have "microsoft basic display adapter. I look around the nVidia driver install site Lenovo site a fix to nothing does not. The graphics card is perhaps too recent . NVidia Driver Lenovo keeps giving me an error when I try to install it (it says that the file is corrupted... actually a little driver downloads are appearing as corrupt for me too).

  Any WHO... I mean does anyone know a solution? Here, I have this laptop great which is perfect for intense games/edition/other stuff that I do, but I can't because the graphics card is not recognnized.

  That or I LOVE IT would be if someone could send me a copy of their on their Y500 Lenovo recovery partition. I called Lenovo and they say I have to send my laptop in order to allow them to 'fix' it and refused to send me a physical copy of the recovery disc. What I really need is a graphics card driver!

  Also my brightnessa setting does not work, but I guess that its connected to do not have the driver.

  Thank you very much!

  -Frustrated and sad.

  Hello

  Please, use this link to download...

  http://support.Lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?docid=DS032574

• IdeaPad Y500 Upgrade help?

  I myself an ideaPad Y500, bought about 4 months ago.
  According to me, it came with a GT650M and an Ivy 3632QM image processor i7.

  I'm currently on Windows 8.1

  For some reason any when I run speccy, it says I have a free RAM slot, and I don't have that one RAM stick 8 GB to 798 MHz. is it possible for me to buy new RAM that runs at about 2000 Mhz and still be able to use it?

  Can I use 32 gigabytes of RAM? With 2 x 16 or is the max 16 (8 x 2?)

  Also, I would like to know how to SLI. I have an optical drive that is removable, but I don't know if this is where I put in my other graphics card. Where do you find an other GT650M anyway?

  I would like to know the best way to upgrade my laptop, or maximize performance.

  Thank you!

  Hello
  Welcome to the forums!
  Yes, some y500 come with 8 GB in only 1 location and most likely the application is to give the right information.
  On a new ram, I strongly advice you buy a compatible ram only which is supported by the motherboard of your laptop.
  The sli, the second gpu goes inside the CD-ROM and the optical drive must be removed. A single device can operate at a time.
  On the purchase of the gpu, I really don't think that you will get a ultrabay gpu for your laptop in India but you can check with the support.
  Also, check your laptop hardware maintenance manual, it tells how to replace the ram and other interchangeable client devices.
  http://support.Lenovo.com/en_FI/detail.page?docid=UM016512
  Concerning

• Advocate for help with fast storage Y500 disk cache

  Question: 1 to Sata and 16 GB mSata SSD drives got rid of all the partitions, and new copy of Windows 8 installed on the 1 TB drive. It is that I'm unable to confirm Intel Rapid Storage is configured to use the mSata SSD as cache drive, and I do not think that it IS configured based on see Win8 Disk Mgmt through that entire SSD (showing about 15 GB) is not allocated and is not be used by anything. Attempts to implement using link below do not work that there is no 'Accelerate' button in the Intel Rapid Storage Technology utility, as shown in the graphic in this post. I even installed the chipset driver before the util Rapid Storage according to the readme instructions I found out of the Intel site.

  http://forums.Lenovo.com/T5/IdeaPad-Y-U-V-Z-and-P-series/the-Guide-on-how-to-reformat-REPARTITION-an...

  To answer this forward - there no option in my BIOS RAID, as seems to be the solution for other IdeaPad models.

  Call the #1 to Lenovo Support - Tech first asked me to set up RAID and after having informed him there was no BIOS RAID option, he informed me of the installation of the equipment for caching SSD drive was fully automatic and needed no software. I found this suspicious and later decided to call again to ask for the check disk cache is enabled...

  Call #2 to Lenovo Support - after a period of 90 min or so call and another suggestion to set up RAID, even if there is no other choice, the technology has suggested that "the only way to get the configured disk cache is to return the laptop to the warehouse for them charge the appropriate partitions.» I asked if he has ever heard about any other machine ever which were to be sent to the factory to get a piece of hardware working in the event of corruption of data/partition say hard drive, or if someone wanted to upgrade their hard drive. He said: "no, Sir, but it seems that you have more experience than me, so I'm not sure what we can do besides have return you.»

  Am I the only one that sounds ridiculous? I have worked on 100 computers and never once had to send a back machine to load the drivers/utils to make a component work - they always had drivers available. And it is a plain jane Windows 8 install, nothing special about it.

  I am reaching my wits end, I lost a ton of time with refills and OS configurations. I give up on the mSata drive all together? I have a time difficult swalling that I MUST have Win8 Lenovo OEM load in order to be able to use all of my material.

  Any help would be REALLY appreciated!

  I think that I figured this out finally. Here's what I did:
  1 put flat as well the 1 TB drive and the 16 GB SSD, no flying over partitions, all unallocated space.
  2A took the mSata SSD out of the machine before I tried Win8 installed, (leaving it in there, the windows carve 350 MB partition on the SSD drive for a reason even if I chose the 1 TB drive to settle).
  3. install Win8 (I have the Technet version).
  4. updated all drivers Lenovo Web site except the Intel RST util, and I hooked version of NVIDIA driver for my video GeForce GT 650 M.
  5. do you have all Windows updates.
  6 clogged mSata SSD back in.
  7. download and install the 64-bit version of memory Cache Express (64-bit) that I found here:

  Cache Express downloads

  8. rebooted as guest

  When I came back to the top, I saw my SSD had a partition created and I can only ASSUME since I didn't see any Cache Express installation error and he ruled out a partition on the SSD drive to work. Don't know how I can check it really worked, but it's wayyyyyy closer I got after working on it for a week. I SiSoftware Sandra and I ran a disk performance report before the installation of the Express Cache, so I want to try to run another report and compare.

• Very low framerate on CS, unique gt650m Y500

  Hello

  I just bought the Y500 with a single GT650m and my framerate on CS is very low, barely higher than 20. I expected a bit more with this computer... I downloaded the latest NVIDIA drivers, but it does not help. Why is it so low framerate?

  I updated the driver to the last one (326.41) and I tried to go in managing the 3D settings to ensure that the GT 650 m is used and not the HD4000 Intel. But he gave me no option to do so. Why is this? Also, yesterday, the framerate was will cause shit, now it fluctuates. I framerates between 60-120(very variable as you can see) and sometimes I get a drop of water where I can't get 20 fps abvoe. This decrease is accompanied by sound less GPU

  Hi approved,

  The game can be run with the integrated graphics card if it's your FPS rate.

  When you open the Nvidia Control Panel and you went to manage 3D settings,

  There should be two tabs on the right? world and the program framework.

  Go into the settings of the program and click the Add button then point it to the location of the exe of the game

  always on the program tab settings below are the list of additional parameters

  Search for Power Management and set it to high performance.

  You can also check if this option is available

  The switch to NVIDIA graphics depends on the application profiles. If an application has no such profile, you can manually set the graphics card:

  1. Click Start and then click Control Panel. Select Classic view in the left side of the window.
  
  
  2. Double-click NVIDIA Control Panel.
  
  
  3. Click on view and next Add the "run with graphic processor" Option in the context Menu. Close the NVIDIA Control Panel.
  
  
  4. Right click on the title of the application, and then select run with GPU. Then, click on NVIDIA processor high performance.

  Hope that helps

  See you soon!

• Audio problem in y500

  Hi all need help here with my y500 Audio...

  I don't know what the cause of the problem, but every time I listen to music in the media player or any other player... During this period, if I play anything on the internet browser. Like any song or video and pause, the Audio in my system is annoyingly slow for example. Music in my Player multimedia plays very slow with noises etc... The same phenomenon occurs whenever any incoming chat sound signal is interpreted by the browser.

  Help, please...

  Try this driver

  http://forums.Lenovo.com/T5/Lenovo-3000-and-value-line/3000-Y500-7761-4EQ-Windows-7-64-bit-audio-DRI...

• My Lenovo Y500 Webcam is not watch hd after windows 8.1 Upgrate

  I use my y500 for 2 months. When I'm with win8, webcam y500 was perfect after I upgraded the win8.1 my camera is very light and contrast more. If I open the webcam in White House case camera showed all blue. If I open the webcam in case yellow room across green watch camera. I installed the new driver of the camera and refreshment pilot of the camera, but still the same error.

  too dark and tho brightness (about contrast). Maybe this problem for the camera driver.

  Please help me

  I've added two photo

  I solve my problem. using youcam win8 apps thanks for what concerns

• New Y500 brand guard freezing and goes black screen

  I recently bought the y500 Monday and it was perfect until today where she got a blue screen of death with the ERROR of VIOLATION of CUSTODY of DPC dog or something like that and since then it has been freezing randomly and goes black screens where I turn it off? Any help?

  I fixed it I think it's all good, until here, if anyone has the same problem, I have just restored my pc to a date where he worked well and optimized my drivers. I may not be not similarly had to restore my pc

• Y500 SSD Leno starting problems

  OK, so after trying a lot of different things, I can't seem to get this to work. What I'm trying to do, is to get my OS (windows 8) at the start of my ssd mSata (256 GB) and use the stock storage HARD drive. I want to use the SSD because I like the faster startup time and load times that accompany it.

  What I tried:

  (1) used a Windows 8 ISO on a usb key to install windows on the SSD drive, everything went well and the download is complete, but every time that I boot on the laptop, it gives me the ability to start from the volume 2 (OS on the SSD) or Volume7 (OS on the HARD disk) which really annoyed me (Im picky like that) so I formatted the HARD drive. This is where things are hairy. When my computer restarts have me an error trying to start up, essentially telling me that there is something on this HARD drive he had to be there, long story short, it made me factory reset my computer (the ssd remained the same since it was not outside the problem).

  (2) after #1 I thought, Fine BONES may remain on the HARD disk, it is large enough to hold my stuff and this OS. But I still wanted the option to not see that Volume 7 Option, so after a bit of searching on Google I found that you can actually remove the boot option so that this doent show there are 2 choices on initialize toward the top. Tried it, didn't work, got the same error as try #1.

  (3) I found a guide on these forums (http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/IdeaPad-Y-U-V-Z-and-P-series/Lenovo-y500-COMPLETE-mSata-SSD-Installation...) on how to do what I'm trying to do. I made sure that I installed it properly, made sure that I see in my bios, and he was using the UEFI, secure boot off, start prioty defined on the ssd. I have clone 4 partitions for the SSD with Macrium Reflect. Name SSD changes it's self for Windows 8 d: drive. He gets so my hopes upward this will work. IGO to start since the SSD and nothing happens, still boots the os from the HARD disk. So I say to myself, I'll just remove the drive HARD doing so he MUST start from the SDS. I remove the HARD drive and turn on the computer, gives me an error screen blue fat fat, says that my computer is missing an important element and that I should get my computer repaired.

  I don't know what to do. If I have to I will return to attempt #1 and just deal with the options Volume 2 and volume 7, but I'd really like to have rather 2nd OS gone so I can get my maximum storage out of it. Any help would be welcome. -Thank you

  Unfortunately, this has not worked for me. I did all your steps but when it asked me to restart my computer to complete the migration that has nothing happened. I tried twice with no success. However on the third attempt, I did something stupid on the accident. I ment to try to copy the OS on the SSD, but what I actually did was copy the empty SSD at the disk, formatting so the HARD drive completely. Initially I capotais, but then I realized that everything what was that hinder me before (these hidden partitions of lenovo) are now gone. So I just installed windows on the computer, manually installed drivers, and everything's fine and dandy.

  However, the only problem with that is I don't believe one key Recovery works more unless I can understand how to install it on the laptop.

  Thanks for your help, it worked very well in a unexpected way haha.

• Question of Y500, battery and games

  Hey guys, just brought the Y500 and I was wondering if the first charge of 8 hours is necessary? Also, if I'm game / normal usagewith my laptop at home, can I deattach the battery and power the laptop via AC Adpater without losing any performace, because I don't want to keep in charge my laptop while playing some high graphic games because it can damage / shorten battery life

  Hello
  The first complete any battery power is important. So I say you should do.
  Everything at stake, feel free to fix the battery and play on the charger because what you say is absolutely correct.
  There will be no performance problems. You will get the best performance on the charger.
  Hope this helps
  Have a nice day

• Replace HDD SSD Lenovo Y500 Guide?

  Hello everyone I'm going to keep it is as simple as possible. I would trade my HDD in my Lenovo Y500 with a 1 TB SSD. My Y500 has the 16 GB of cache if that helps. I think it's a 2.5 "HDD but what kind. What is an mSata or Sata?

  The physical installation, I can do easily, but what is the best way to backup and transfer things to the SSD?

  I'm pretty decent with computers and I have some knowledge on this operation. I would like to transfer all my SSD HARD drive this includes the OS(windows 8) and all the other necessary components. I would do it with a DVDR that is 4.6 GB I think. It's a brand new computer, so I have no files, docs etc that I have to worry.

  Please can someone answer my questions I would really appreciate the help of the community.

  Please post a guide step by step for me and others to use!

  Thanks a ton

  I found it easier to use an mSATA replacing the 16 GB one with a 256 GB SSD version. It runs at 6 Gbps.

  Windows 8, I have installed from a copy retail DVD instead of imaging on the 1 TB drive. The activation key for Windows 8 is built in your bios. Windows automatically detected 8 mine installed without asking for it and active without problem.

• I get the ssd drive, I need to buy recovery DVDs for y500 to install new windows with recovery

  I get the ssd drive, I need to buy recovery DVDs for y500 to install new windows with recovery

  How much it costs

  I need to perform a recovery for ssd only

  I need direct link for that

  Nice day.

  He was never a way I know of to download games Windows OEM Lenovo recovery disks. That the process is managed by Service, you'll need to contact them directly (see info below). If I understand correctly, they will confirm your OS by checking the serial number of your machine.

  I hope this helps.

  Kind regards.

• Y500 Lenovo webcam has stopped working.

  Hello, recently I bought a Y500.
  After installing Windows 7 X 64 and start a conversation on Skype fot the first time
  Webcam worked without problem. After two days, I tried to make a video call, but the unit does not start
  Circle turns the camera LED lights but the screen is black.
  I tried the site. Testmycam.com has picture but fuzzy.

  Reinstall the drivers, I installed an older version of Skype 4.2 version but problem not solved... Help me please.

  Hello.

  I had the same problem.
  Just go to the Lenovo website and download and install the driver for Windows 8. Then everything works fine again.

  Greetings from Christian to the Denmark