Mr_Fitz

Hello svl7, As promised, I have just sent you some drink money I finally received my Intel AC 2760 chip the other day, which I installed and loaded Intel's drivers. I've gone from dropping my wifi connection every couple of minutes to having a stable connection! I think I still need to work on the Bluetooth setup, but at least the wifi seems to be solid now! I couldn't have done that without your (Lenovo Y580 / Y480 BIOS v2.07 (5DCN40WW) -> unlocked, whitelist removed, Nvidia 660m @ 1GHz default 3d clocks) modified BIOS! A huge "Thank You!" to you and everyone else that has assisted you in the work you've done on these mods! Fitz

Before I give you the answer to how to edit the platform.ini, I just want to say that reading through all 85 pages of this thread taught me a LOT, and I suggest you do the same! With that said, I found it within the first 10 pages... (select the file - right click - select Edit - change RESSEN to RESSDIS - it is the last word of the 3rd line - Save) Fitz

I don't think this has been covered so... I'm looking at the Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 and the Intel® Centrino n 6300... The n 6300 has 3 antenna, which SHOULD give me better reception, but the AC 7260 would give me access to the ac band (not that it exists anywhere near me yet)... My question to you is... If I get the AC 7260, which has Bluetooth, is it possible, and will it be better, to uninstall/disable the Broadcom and use it from the AC 7260? Fitz

I just flashed my 2.07 BIOS using the "[Y580][Y480]-'unlocked_BIOS'_660mGHzEdition_WhitelistMod". I had to edit the platform.ini since it was the same version, but it was simple to do. Flashing took a couple minutes (still just 3 clicks of the mouse!), but there were no problems at all, and everything seems to be working exactly as it was before. I'll be swapping out the wifi card as soon as I can find/order one here in Hanoi. A HUGE "Thank You" to svl7 (and any others that assist in this), and as soon as I get the new card in I will be sponsoring your next drink! Fitz

And to add to my previous post (I do need 5 before I can download)... The reason I'm here is because of that crappy wifi, so I'm planning on swapping out the original N-2200 for something a little more robust. I'm looking at the N-6205, 6235, 6250 or the 6300, but I'm not really sure what I'm going to be able to find here in Hanoi, Vietnam Any suggestions for best results running the i7-3610QM with the setup mentioned above? Fitz

Hello All, I'm new to all the stuff, but I've been learning a LOT reading all the posts (I'm only up to page 33)... I bought my Y580 quite some time ago and have made a couple changes along the way. It originally came with the 32GB msata and the 1TB standard drive (Rapid Drive) running the "39" BIOS. I swapped the 32GB msata out for a 256GB Crucial msata and removed Rapid Drive. I loaded Windows 7 Professional 64bit from scratch onto the Crucial and use the 1TB for all non-active storage. (my battery-life increased slightly too) Recently I got tired of the crappy wifi performance (constant dropping) and read that updating to the latest BIOS (to the "40" from the Lenovo site) would help, so I did... That was a HUGE mistake! Once I clicked the button to Update my machine was useless... It would not boot off any internal drive I tried "Repairing" using the repair disc, "Recovering" (from a 6-month old backup), installing a new Windows 7 and then reformatting and then installing a fresh Windows 7. I even re-formatted one of my partitions on the 1TB drive and tried installing Windows 7 there... Even with all of that it still wouldn't boot I took the machine to my (not so) local repair guy, who confirmed that it was toast, but then he took both my msata and 1TB drives out, and plugged in another drive with Windows 8 on it. It booted like there was nothing wrong! And better yet, it's been running fine (although with the same crappy wifi) since So... If you crashed your machine like I did (I assume it must be pretty common), I suggest finding another standard drive with Windows 8 on it, and seeing if it does anything... Fitz