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What's the maximum mhz that Haswell M like the 4700MQ in the Y510P can support? I have some 1600mhz in my Y510p right now, but have thought about going up with some recent performance revelations regarding memory speed and the new Haswell architecture from Anandtech

I'm running Windows 7 64 Bit Ultimate on my Lenovo Y510P and SLI runs great. I'm not sure if this directly relates to the Y500. I do know they're quite similar, so I thought I'd chime in as I don't have any major problems. The one thing that I did have to do was go within the NVIDIA Control Panel and under 3D Settings > Set SLI and PhysX Configuration and change the radial from the default of "Disable SLI" to "Maximize 3D Performance". That fired up SLI and it's been working since. I have noticed that when I upgrade drivers I need to go in and reconfigure it. Sometimes it seems to set it back to "Disable SLI" for some reason / shrug. It's a quick easy fix though. - - - Updated - - - I'm not sure, but would like to know as well. I do know that the bios is flagged for OEM Windows 8, but I don't know how it operates with this new sucktastic version of Windows

Like Florin said this is due to a process hanging and not closing down. I think what they're eluding to is... did this start happening after you installed something in particular or has it always happened? Also, are you on Windows 7 or 8? How long of hang are we talking about? Do you have an HDD or an SSD?

It's not that the cells are dead. There's just no way for it to link up inside. I read in another thread somewhere earlier today that because of the interface Lenovo uses (some kind of custom 8x PCIE internal jumper and sata connection) that powering the laptop via the Ultrabay isn't doable with it's existing connections. So, while there isn't a way to slide it in and have everything be hunky-dory, I suppose one might be able to mod something. That being said, I don't know if I really want to get into that and risk frying something forcing volts up something that they don't belong haha! bob I'm not sure how this relates? This isn't a SLI issue.

I used the bios, vbios and steps from here (from this thread I believe) I think that you get access to downloads after 10 posts if I'm not mistaken. At first I was miffed, but came to understand. It's a great site and people should contribute, not just leach. This site's actually made me remember how helpful some forums can be :-) It looks like you have 5 posts now. Not far to go. Read through the forum and make a few helpful comments or questions. Who knows, you might even stick around! Be careful with the bios modding. Follow the steps carefully. I'd also recommend reading the entire thread (it's short right now) before doing it. I ran into a few hurdles and needed to do some side research to get though it.

Hey dsh761. I have the modded bios for the Y510p installed now. It runs great. I tried toying around with some GPU settings in the bios and it wouldn't boot correctly, so I'm not sure if it's possible to do this from a bios perspective. I have tried the manual method of taking the Ultrabay GT750M out, installing the IGPU driver and that works. It'd be awesome to get it working with the click of a button but I'm not sure that's possible. Once you install the IGPU graphics driver you just need to turn the machine off, take out the battery and switch to Ultrabay graphics in or out to use / not use the IGPU. It's manual, but beats spooling up discreet GPU's for office work. Especially if you're on the road.

Make an oops? This is the backup original Ultrabay Bios from my Lenovo Y510p SLI when I flashed mine over to the modded vbios... http://ge.tt/6P3SCUt/v/0?c

My BIOS is modded, but I upgraded the wireless card in my Lenovo Y510p to an Intel 7260 AC. My range has increased quite a bit along with throughput. I'll likely be picking up an AC router in a couple of months when the next revision of the ASUS AC rolls around. I picked up my Intel 7260 AC wireless card on Amazon. It was pretty cheap, delivered quickly and packaged well. The Intel 7260 AC wireless card was pretty easy to install in the Lenovo Y510p. One screw holds in the wireless card, and since the 7260 AC is 2x2 you don't need to do any antenna modifications. I don't know if you need a modded BIOS to allow the particular 7260 AC that I got. I did anyways as it provides some additional benefits.

I think that many are confused with Optimus and utilizing the integrated GPU. I made the error of using the word "Optimus" myself a few times. Optimus is the auto graphics switching software, not the utilization of the integrated graphics.

Excellent point! I forgot about that.

If it's the same touchpad as the Y510P it should be a ELAN touchpad, not synaptics.

Very Strange. I don't have that issue with my Y510P running the V1.09 Bios. If you're using an external mouse when the lid is closed you can set up the touchpad to disable itself when an external pointing device is plugged in via USB. If you don't already, to do this you'll need the ELAN Pointing Device drivers installed (Lenovo Y510P Touchpad Drivers for Windows 7 32-Bit and 64-Bit from Lenovo / Lenovo Y510P Touchpad Drivers for Windows 8 64_Bit from Lenovo). Once you've done this, in Windows 7 go to: Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Mouse (Under Devices and Printers). This will bring up and new window and within there you want to navigate to the tab called "ELAN" with the Red Favicon. Within that tab you'll find a selection that says "Disable when External USB pointing device plug in" (Such bad English... sigh). Clicking this should turn off the touchpad automatically once you plug in an external pointer (mouse, trackball, etc) which I imagine is what you're doing and watching movies or whatever. Unfortunately I don't know how to do this in Windows 8. You'll have to do some trial and error to see if you can do something similar if you'd like. I know this doesn't fix your phantom pointer problem, but hopefully it's a applicable workaround that'll keep things easy until you find a fix. Best of luck! - K

Awesome pics and thank you for the link to the Y400 / Y500 disassembly video! I've been wanting to go through my Y510P and redo all of the thermal paste, but have been a bit gun-shy without a guide :-)

Hey All, Having bought a new Lenovo Y510P SLI a few weeks ago, like most of us in the know I wanted to get Onboard Graphics rolling. This got me to thinking, why not get a bigger battery too! Unfortunately there aren't any extended 9 Cell Batteries available for the Lenovo Y510P. But there is an Ultrabay Battery Available that works with older Lenovo Thinkpads and Ideapads that have Ultrabays. The Ultrabay Battery is 3 Cells FYI, so it could offer a significant battery life improvement. The Lenovo Y510P has a 9.5mm Ultrabay Slot. So for Hard Drive / HDD Caddies, ODD / Optical Disc Drives and Ultrabay Accessories the height you'll want to look for is 9.5mm. The Ultrabay on other Lenovo Products varies in height. The Ultrabay in the Lenovo Ideapad Y510P is the "Ultrabay Slim" type according to my research which 9.5mm tall. Since the 9 cell hump back / camel battery isn't available as previously mentioned, I hopped on eBay and found a new Ultrabay Slim Battery Accessory which was around $30 unused shipped. When it finally arrived, I tore the sucker open, but came to find that the plugs on the back are quite different, don't match up to to what's inside and don't align to boot. So though it fits in the slot, there's nothing for the back of the Ultrabay Battery to plug into inside of the Y510P. I'm unsure if there's a way to modify this. Perhaps there's a way to add an adapter of sorts? Either something to plug onto the back of the battery and plug that contraption into the Ultrabay, or something that I can put inside of the Ultrabay so that it plugs in correctly and can be used. A word of caution for those who do order it for a whirl at making something work - the Ultrabay latch does not function properly and it's a pain to get the battery back out of the Ultrabay slot. It's doable, just scary if you don't have the persistence and tools. If anyone has any tips, news of a proper Y510P extended battery or anything of the sort that'd be fantastic. Happy modding! - K

Yep. Not doable. I'd imagine that you could perhaps run an upgraded graphics card in the Ultrabay, but with SLI running the other card would be downclocked to match. BUT, now I do wonder what would happen... or if you can say swap in faster ultrabay graphics and disable in soldered graphics. Maybe in the future there will be a GTX Ultrabay Graphics Option.

I hope that the modded bios will allow this. I did the same mod that you did (taking out the secondary Ultrabay card and installing the onboard graphics drivers). That worked like a charm. But I haven't found a way to switch to Optimus with two cards docked yet. I'd imagine there's gotta be some kind of way to make this happen in software. But it could be a ~hardware issue since the ultrbay graphics aren't hot swappable. If you find something out do let me know!

Really good stuff! I've been keeping an eye out for something like this for the Y510P that I picked up. Keep up the wonderful work!