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So after I restored my y580 to sell it, the buyer is having this issue when trying to game. Any solutions?

There's definitely a way, but what's the point? The fan will run at maximum speed when the CPU or GPU reach certain temperature. Running at full speed won't decrease your max temps. All it will do is it will heat up slower.

That's not true, the y580 fan never runs at full speed. If you want to check as well whenever I'm gaming and the GPU is under full load 100% I go to the dust extractor and turn it on, the fan then spins even faster and the loudness goes up. Check it yourself.

Hey guys,

I have a question about CPU cooling. Ok correct me if I'm wrong but for laptop, the CPU and dGPU does share the same heat sink right? So if i disabled the dGPU then the fan won't be cooling the dGPU and also the CPU right? Because when I play games, my CPU temp is burning up. I tried to manually control the fan speed with 3rd party programs but it only increase the fan speed of my eGPU. Any suggestion? Thanks.

I've opened up my y580 a number if times the only way to adjust the fan is to manually sever the two other wires but leaving the positive and negative to the fan, thus the fan will run at full speed. You can .attach a switch to return the fan to normal function once you deactivate the dGPU the fan should have less work to do as it is only cooling the CPU. Not sure what is wrong with yours.

Hey there, Fyi I am using a Lenovo Y580 with R9 280X OC Vapor as eGPU and so far everything is running well. No Setup 1.x are needed because of the UMA option in the Bios to disable the iGPU dGPU. I will update when I have tested Ultra on AC4, pretty busy working now.

What variant of the y580 do you have? 1080p display? Give Me some of your fps scores on games running at that resolution.

See previous Y580 response at http://forum.techinferno.com/diy-e-gpu-projects/2109-diy-egpu-experiences-%5Bversion-2-0%5D-212.html#post73882

HD7970M dGPU is quite powerful. Keeping in mind you won't have pci-e bandwidth limitations there like you would with an eGPU. If gaming is utmost importance then suggest go the HD7970M route. If can compromise then consider an eGPU. It's only the latest 13" rMBP and 15" MBP with Thunderbolt ports that can give near desktop pci-e bandwidth (x4 2.0). Those systems are pricier than PC notebooks and the eGPU hardware is still not affordable when compared to gaming/desktop systems.

Sadly the GPU is paired with an Amd A10. Which bottle necks the GPU terribly. Hmmm... With an egpu on the mini pcie port, would I be able to run ac4 and bf4 on ultra with more than 40fps? Gtx680 of course.

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My y580 after an apparent bad paste job has temps that goes up to 93. it never goes past this, i believe it is because it starts throttling whenever it reaches those temps. because games play at a good fps 30+ on high at 1080p but shortly after i get low fps like 22.2 and that's when temps reach in the 90's. because of that i believe it is due to gpu throttling. anyhow. even when i try to OC at those temps it makes no difference in fps, which is strange in itself.

Does anyone know what temps the gtx 660m in the y580 throttles at?

i have already ordered a SSD and a 2nd HDD drive caddy and some Arctic silver. i also ordered Cool laboratory liquid metal pad.

anyone has any experience with the cool laboratory liquid metal pad? as well.

Well, followed the instructions exactly for the 8.01 BIOS, but ran into an issue where my USB drive isn't being detected as bootable, running windows 8.1 and cannot access the BIOS due to forgetting the password, and not sure if theres any way to reset it as I haven't found much info on pulling the CMOS battery

there should be a way to 'short' the connection to the CMOS battery and cause the bios to reset. done it to a few toshibas' in the past. As for making the usb drive bootable, as long as you downloaded the DOS files (win98) and the hp formatting tool it will be bootable. for me i had to put my computer into legacy mode to properly boot from it. So after you reset the bios change from UEFI to legacy and press F12 when the bios first boots up to enter the boot manager. AND VOILA

i forgot to mention, only when i was in legacy mode was i able to boot from the usb. it was not showing usb bootable in UEFI mode.

There was one on ebay, but i'm not seeing it anymore. i would keep looking around on ebay if i were you.

i don't have an overheating problem but my temps go pass 90 too frequently for me after i changed the original thermal paste to some i used on my xbox 360. before it had never touched 90! so i'm going to get some arctic silver and mod the fan. i'd expect to use this laptop at least 2 years or so. maybe 3.

The fan/temp control in the unlocked BIOS doesn't work for me on my y580. Tried setting the fan to 100% at low/high thresholds and nothing is affected. I have a system board that is flaking out and I think it is due to chronic overheating (began having problems at 1 year). Maybe I'll be able to manually hardwire the fan to run at full speed before replacing the system board. BTW my issue is that my y580 hard locks (have to hold the power button in to shut it down when it locks) during normal use and actually performs more reliably when playing a game. I believe this is because of an issue with the Intel Graphics chip caused by ongoing heat stress (hence the desire for increased fan speed).

i believe your issue is may stem from a failing hard drive if you haven't changed to a SSD. those symptoms happened to me on several occasions... hard drive was bad. which is obviously caused by the gpu and cpu head that greatly diminishes the lifespan of the hdd.

svl7 i'm getting an issue with the the procedure.the win64 intel tool, won't back up anything. the cmd console just stays there and won't back up anything after executing the backup.bat. the DOS version tells me it's not compatible with my version on windows (win 8 64 bit). not sure what to do now to back up my bios with this computer.

Update:

Backup worked in dos.

The flash tool in DOS won't let me select options.as soon as I input fpt.exe it tells me press any key to continue and I can't input any commands. After pressing any button twice it tells me error 200: invalid parameter value specified by user. Any help?

UPDATE:

the flashed work when i changed the fixed file extension from ROM to BIN.

the unlocked bios is great, stock speeds is at 1000mhz and my laptop runs cooler now... hardly goes above 80... fantastic! thank you SLV7!!

I for one am now afraid tod flash the 8.01 bios. Anyone can confirm it worked for them with the factory bios version at 8.01?

my dv6000 started behaving erratically, sometimes the webcam would work and then the computer wouldn't find it in the device manager. now the wifi card is not detected (also works sporadically), the sound doesn't work at all, no audio hardware is detected so not even the headphone jack works. it used to overheat and i opened it cleaned all the lint stuck in the heatsink and reapplied fresh thermal paste (the flour and water combo hp used sucks) then the overheating stopped. now i can't really use this computer as the lan has also stopped working. is there anything i can do to fix it? help anyone? please?

so basically from what i've read you can just cut the other wires leaving the positive and negative (red+black) and the fan will run at 100%. along with decreased battery life (will be gaming so not a factor). i intend to use this mod for gaming and OC'ing and a attach a switch to turn on regular fan behavior. i am going to order some arctic silver and a 2nd hdd dvd caddy to relocate the hdd to the dvd drive before i attempt this mod. just to help decrease the temps. i also want to remove the grill that helps reduce dust getting to the fan(to help increase airflow). hopefully with all of this if i could just see the temps stay at 80 and below it will all be worth it.

whatever you do, do not use the battery gauge reset feature. try draining the battery from full 3 times in the bios, i.e let it run down to 0% while in the bios. i've read that this can help re calibrate them

Can't take screenshots in BIOS, so had to make a photo of the screen...

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Maybe it's different in Y500?

i've heard others state that they weren't able to override it in the modified bios settings. is that a y500 bios you got in the photo? i think those actually had a hardware button to change fan speeds as well. or was it the y510p?

well seeing as the user doesn't have the ability to override the fan settings through software on the y580, a hardware mod would do the trick. is it at all possible to swap out the fan for a faster or better fan? or just simply wire the stock fan to spin at 100% having a switch to bring it back to stock speeds?

Does the ultrabay for the y500 work on the y580?

i repasted my gpu and cpu today with some thermal compound i used for my xbox 360 reflow days. needless to say my temperates have went up to 90 and as far as 93 when playing dmc 5 maxed out on ultra. i'd see it hit 89 regularly before but rarely 91. not sure what's the problem. the fan is also blowing out hotter air.

the water mark they're referring to is the Secure boot water mark. it is usually disabled at default. enable it to remove the watermark