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• A few questions on the SSD for my W520

  (1) an mSATA reader, can serve as a boot media? I guess that it will reveal in the BIOS boot configuration?

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  (2) the main Bay on W520 is certainly SATA III and the mSATA on this system is also still certain to be SATA II. I hope this helps.

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• W520 - RAID / hard drive questions

  Before I discovered, I received a replacement W520, I bought an SSD 128 GB to Lenovo (a student discount, it was not too bad). I bought it because it's a SATA II interface, what my current W510 can support. But now that I'm a W520, that supports SATA III I should probably send the SSD back and get something else, right?

  In addition, I don't know much about RAID, but I won't need to use a secondary HDD in my ultrabay slot I'm going? What about the mSATA... If I have three drives in storage at the same time, will that require RAID?

  xtsubarublazin wrote:

  Before I discovered, I received a replacement W520, I bought an SSD 128 GB to Lenovo (a student discount, it was not too bad). I bought it because it's a SATA II interface, what my current W510 can support. But now that I'm a W520, that supports SATA III I should probably send the SSD back and get something else, right?

  In addition, I don't know much about RAID, but I won't need to use a secondary HDD in my ultrabay slot I'm going? What about the mSATA... If I have three drives in storage at the same time, will that require RAID?

  Regarding the 128 GB SSD, which really depends on what you paid, return the shipping charges and restocking fees.  I would never buy a SSD from lenovo.com.  You don't look at newegg.com?

  About the RAID, no doubt whatever.  Unless you had it on your W510, W520 replace will not have it.  RAID is not necessary to use on three storage devices in the W520.

• Question ram W520

  I'm specing on a W520 and wonder how many ram slots a W520 comes with, and if it varies depending on the configuration that you select during customization, it.

  Quad core CPU models have four locations working SoDIMM. The Dual Core CPU models have four slots, but two are disabled. The W520 support 32 GB when completely filled with 8 GB SODIMM.

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• W520 recovery disk

  I just purchased a Lenovo ThinkPad W520, it is used and the warranty expired in January this year. However, it seems that, until she was sold the system has been wiped or recovered as it seems clean enough, but there are still a lot of unnecessary junk on it... I need to wipe it, then I can start with a clean system cool, the only problem is it looks like one that has remade the system deleted the recovery partition, so I can't make the recovery discs... I tried to buy online but I am unable to find, so first question is - anyone know where I can get them online, be free like ISO or for purchase. Secondly if this is not possible, someone at - it a set they can do a copy hence let me borrow and borrow yes I mean borrow, send them to me so I can use it to restore the system and I'll send them right back, I'll even pay all S & H return costs. Also if this serious laptop is a Windows 7 Professional x 64 operating system.

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  I gave them a call and they will provide me with a copy of the discs for $45, which is really not so bad.

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• Life expectancy of a 'new' refurbished Lenovo W520

  Hi all!

  I recently bought a refurbished Lenovo W520, with a brand new SSD and the new ram as well. The model goes back to 2011 and it looks actually pretty new in this is the general appearance.

  These are purchased by companies whose users, I guess, probably used less intensely and probably with more care than the average user.

  My question is; How long should I wait for this machine to work? He's already got what I assume to be nearly half a decade on his back, and even if some essential (SSD and Ram) parts are brand new, I am always worried about the longevity of the rest of its internal components.

  Thanks in advance!

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  I only really worry the cooling problems. It always speaks by making a much traveled W520. According to the number of hours of use, the laptop has had and the conditions, it has been preserved in, thermal paste could be replaced on the GPU/CPU and the fans/vents might need suddenly out with compressed air to remove any buildup. It's all a work of $6 to do yourself (materials: thermal paste and compressed air, remove the keyboard and the keyboard setting, remove the pipes on GPU/CPU.)

  I guess that you have received a new battery (obviously these age and there is no way the original spec is more) and the LCD shows no problem (Panel light darkens over time but always mine high with only a little pink cast near the corners - although to be fair, mine had a life shaken and fallen several times on hard surfaces of some long-distance).

  In the past, on other thinkpads, only other points of failure were the bearings in cooling fan requiring a replacement fan assembly failure and graphics (sometimes of the cable charts overwork through the hinge.) I have one of these problems with the W520 still. The hinge is better designed than many previous thinkpads and the cooling is less active which will span the life of any pads of the fan. It is with the 2000M GPU (1000M models have other issues because both had different designs cooling.)

  Currently I have an SSD mSATA Plextor (Win 7 Pro OS - put to test at SATA2 speeds) in slot mSATA near trackpad and a SSD Pro of Samsung 850 in the hard drive Bay (win 10 Pro OS - tested SATA3 sppeds.) The system works well. For awhile, I thought win 10 was never going to work right and I need to replace the W520 immediately but finally Nvidia fixed their optimus drivers and the laptop is really eye-catching win 10. (Technically the W520 is not listed by Lenovo, a sustained Win 10 portable if Microsoft said that he would retire.)

• 10 thnikpad W520 Lenovo windows problems

  Hi guys I'm new to this community. I have a w520 when I bought it I did not know there was no windows 10 Lenovo for her driver. Well I said this than ever and installed he went smoth but problems started when windows 10 pushed the updates here are the issues I face.

  (1) power manager did any battery threshold

  (2) every time I stop or restart the audio and/or hardware driver is missing, then I have to restart it like 3 to 4

  time to retrieve

  (3) there is no option of hibernation in the power options (power options > choose that make the power Butts > last options)

  Now if there is any way or work around to back Manager supply and solve these questions well you help me

  Screenshot power options

  guys thank you for replays many of the problems are solved thanks harisb definition app store works fine and have all the options and for gpu problem I went to nvidia chat they told me to uninstall the driver and install it again it has solved the problem. I installed the audio driver of lenovo for windows 10 it was a former pilot, but it works very well and only one thing remaining is there no hybernation option in power options.

  but overall, she is seems fine now, thank you guys for your help.

• Installation of memory channel to W520

  I am planning to complete all 4 locations of memory with 4 GB each. I bought a pair of memory cards, are "dual channel kit. The question is where to put these two so that the couple works as a memory dual channel?

  From the manual, it is not really clear which is which slot. I guess, the slots located under the keyboard are identified as SLOT 0 (top) and SLOT 0 b (bottom). Down those are 2 SLOT (left) and the SLOT 2 b (right).

  Official video of W510, it looks like SLOT 0 and SLOT 2 are primary modules and SLOT 0 b and 2B SLOT are secondary modules. These bananas are called as 1 & 3 under the keyboard and 3 & 4 low on video.

  The pair go to the SLOT 0a and 0b SLOT? It is under the keyboard.

  Or the pair goes from 0 to SLOT & SLOT 2A? The one on top one on the bottom, but both in the main channel.

  Material W520 maintenance manual:
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  Here's a video that does the same thing on a W510:
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  Other
  http://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=RBEzYombu2c

  Identical to the W510

  See http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/W-Series-ThinkPad-Laptops/Optimizing-memory-in-W510-which-slots-to-use/t...

• W520 ejection (or try) UltraBay III HDD on the wake from Hibernation

  Hello

  I have a w520, with a 128 SSD in the main location with the original HDD 500 into the UltraBay slot. On the wake of hibernation, the system tries to eject the disc.

  I tried a few solutions:

  1 Windows 7 reconstruction from scratch

  2. the format of the HARD drive

  3 disable write cache

  4. install Intel RST

  The reconstruction worked until I did a pilot how up-to-date the redone problem surface.

  Help would be great, thank you all!

  Solution! I found a post by ThorsHammer who raised the same question:

  http://forums.Lenovo.com/T5/W-series-ThinkPad-Laptops/W520-trying-to-eject-UltraBay-when-sleeping/m-...

  1. I've updated the RST drivers with those found here:

  http://support.Lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?docid=DS014898

  2. not updating a complete system

  3. then uninstalled, uninstalled empasize you want the Intel RST driver utility (the one I got from the Intel site) and now it works!

  Just a big head up well that, unless there was an update over the last 2 weeks, I had this problem until I went mucking with the RST drivers; which means an installation of Windows 7 directly with all future updates through the Lenovo Updater still had the problem.

  I hope this helps other people!

• Questions for the W541! Possible purchase

  Hi everyone I am considering the purchase of a new laptop computer and I'm considering W541 as one of my options. I have a few questions though, before I can do a longish and I'll be very grateful if anyone with or without experience with W541 can respond! BTW I use the laptop mainly under linux + windows for light work of games/office.

  (1) SCREEN. Is the FHD REAL matte screen or is bright somehow? I suffer from eye strain/headaches of the retina or glossy or very bright white color poster. I don't consider any laptop with this kind of screen. Also the FHD seems to be the smallest resolution I can get, you think it of big enough for a person with the glass of the prescription see? (otherwise T440p seems the thinkpad only left with HD resolution).

  (2) CPU/RAM: there are two "low end" option for CPU: i7-4710 MQ and MQ i7-4810. I know they are pretty similar and I have additional need 500 mhz. However, a Web site, the 4810 seems to support DDR3L 1333/1600 so that 4710 supports only DDR3. I don't know if it's right because Lenovo offers 4710 with 1600 MHz ram. Also do you think 2.5 GHz base frequency difference of 2.8 GHz? How about consumption?

  (3) battery life: I'm going to battery 9 if I buy this one. Does anyone have a real experience for how long it might last with internet/office/pdf work?

  (4) replacement of RAM: is it replacement ram there at 1600 mhz for replacement? I can only find 14900 mhz crucial. Oh I found 1600 Kingston and kingston 1866? Can I even use 1866 for W541?

  (5) sensor of fingerprint digital/color: pretty cool to have feature. But those good support in Linux, or even in windows? My friend has an old T500 with option of fingerprints, and is hell slow to read/use this function.

  (6) microdrive/raid: having a raid will be beneficial? With ssd?

  (7) keyboard pad num: anyone looking like / dislike it? The num key did all the keys closer and more difficult to type?

  (8) final thought: pretty stupid, but don't I have to wait for the quad core broadwell or even skylate? It's 'almost' seven.

  I recently "upgraded" to a W520 in a W541, so I can probably help with some of them.

  (1) SCREEN. Is the FHD REAL matte screen or is bright somehow?

  Speaking only in the version 3K, it is dull. I think the FHD screen is similar.

  (2) CPU/RAM: there are two "low end" option for CPU: i7-4710 MQ and MQ i7-4810. I know they are pretty similar and I have additional need 500 mhz. However, a Web site, the 4810 seems to support DDR3L 1333/1600 so that 4710 supports only DDR3. I don't know if it's right because Lenovo offers 4710 with 1600 MHz ram. Also do you think 2.5 GHz base frequency difference of 2.8 GHz? How about consumption?

  I wouldn't put too much trust the specifications of Lenovo, which is really disappointing... If you look, the W541 is listed as a 5th generation of processor (is not, and I sent a message about this months ago) and they claim that you can buy it with a touchscreen multipoint (you can't).

  Plan on DDR3L / 1600.

  (3) battery life: I'm going to battery 9 if I buy this one. Does anyone have a real experience for how long it might last with internet/office/pdf work?

  About 6 hours, give or take, if you have the display near the midpoint of the brightness.

  (4) replacement of RAM: is it replacement ram there at 1600 mhz for replacement? I can only find 14900 mhz crucial. Oh I found 1600 Kingston and kingston 1866? Can I even use 1866 for W541?

  According to my experience, the W541 was very picky with RAM. I went with 2 x 2 x 8 sets of Crucial (P/n: BLS2K8G3N169ES4). Lenovo doesn't really allow to much enjoy anything be it faster.

  (5) sensor of fingerprint digital/color: pretty cool to have feature. But those good support in Linux, or even in windows? My friend has an old T500 with option of fingerprints, and is hell slow to read/use this function.

  The fingerprint reader was not an option when I bought my W541 in April. The W520 fingerprint reader was usable in Fedora, for what it is worth. Both should work fine in Windows (speaking from experience, works of fine point color calibrator Windows 8.1).

  (6) microdrive/raid: having a raid will be beneficial? With ssd?

  The microdrive is useful if your main drive is a stand-alone magnetic drive, or if you want to format and have a semi-permanent place to keep ~ 16 GB of data. You can get adapters to convert the optical Bay for a 2.5 "drive Bay HARD, that you can use for RAID 0 or RAID 1.

  (7) keyboard pad num: anyone looking like / dislike it? The num key did all the keys closer and more difficult to type?

  It takes getting used to typing with your hands to shift to the left. The keys seem to very small, however. It is not as bad as the HP keyboards with numpads, but if there is an option to get the keyboard without one, I would have taken the traditional keyboard.

  (8) final thought: pretty stupid, but don't I have to wait for the quad core broadwell or even skylate? It's 'almost' seven.

  If you do not need today, I'd wait. I liked my W520, and I pretty much hate my W541. The trackpad is the worst I've ever used, the keyboard has a number of quality issues, display of 3K there's nothing to get excited about, thermal reduction system needs to refine...

  The only reason why I happen to be here today, is that I was shopping for a replacement for the W541 I bought a few months ago. It's pretty horrible.

• Sand bridge W520 problem?

  The sand bridge issue, discussed in the next video affects W520?
  http://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=tJcE2alQPvY

  udvranto,

  Please take a look at this knowledge base article on this topic, it contains I hope that the information you are looking for. Your questions or even replied it is a link to the relevant thread where you could post those questions.

  Thread locking to avoid duplication of discussions.

• W520 - color calibration problem

  I recently received a w520, it seems to work fine. However, I am having trouble with the color profile in windows on the laptop. In the display settings advanced that I keep trying to set a custom ICC profile, but never the time the computer goes into power saving or stops the monitor out of the ICC profile is reset to the default.

  I scoured these forums as well as various sources around the net for a solution with nothing doesn't. Can someone point me in the right direction please and thanks in advance.

  Here is the fix:

  Click the Windows Start button and type "msconfig" in the search bar; Press ENTER. In the window that appears, click on the "Startup" tab at the top. In the list of questions below, you should see three entries for "Intel(r) Common User Interface". To the right of the people is a column called order. One of the mentions for Intel Common User Interface will be the command "c:\windows\system32\igfxpers.exe". Clear the check box next to this entry, click on apply and down and then restart your computer. Your display profile that you set must be loaded now.

  Josh

• Questions about the W530

  Hey everybody,

  I am a student who is looking to buy a new laptop in the next few weeks and made the W530 my first choice. At the moment I intend to use it for daily tasks and entertainment, but eventually I'll use it for coding with matlab as Microsoft visual studio and possibly some print 3D programs. I am planning get options Basic that it comes with, but I'm unable to pronounce on the screen. I had planned on 1600 x 900 screen, but I would like to know how it differs from the screen FHD 1920 x 1080. The difference is noticeable or I'd be fine with just the 1600 X 900 screen? If I get the screen FHD is possible to install a player blu - ray subsequently, or which is out of the question, given that Lenovo does not offer that as an option. And last question, what is the reliability of the recent W530 I've seen a lot of posts on the problems in the W530 that seem only those beginning 2012 effect?

  Any help on these questions would be extremely appreciated

  1. the screen 1600 x 900 HD + on W530 is of good quality. The display of 1920 x 1080 FHD W530 is of excellent quality. The choice is really a matter of personal preference and needs, even if it is obvious that the FHD provides a larger work surface.

  2. installation of a drive Blu - ray (to replace the stock, DVD player) is separated from the FHD screen option and can be done by yourself. Check this box:
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  3. in general, the W530 is a large workstation (relatively portable).