MrTriTanium

If you expect your temps to drop 20C based on others' results, you will probably be disappointed. There may be others, as well as myself, who saw drops like what I did, but there are so many variables in repasting that you may see less than what I and others saw. Do your own research into the thermal paste that is right for you and "proper" methods to reapply the paste you choose. Don't go by what others have said/done. Evaluate whether or not you want to install the modded BIOS on the results you see afterwards and if you will benefit in doing so. Although this is a rather constructive forum and pretty much lacks any ill-will, this is still the Internet.

If you are already seeing 93C you most likely will see higher temps with 1Ghz, and potentially see your computer shut off to protect the GPU. What you should do, even if you don't install the modded BIOS, is to repaste your laptop. I saw 93C (with artifacts) before I repasted and had temps drop roughly 20C afterwards using Tuniq TX-4, depending on the game. The highest I have seen it go at 1Ghz is around 78C.

Take your laptop apart and check that the ribbon cables are connected to the motherboard.

If you looked back a few pages you would have seen that I posted the EXACT same thing. It is a driver problem, not a BIOS problem; and it still does not work with the new drivers. Backlight for what? You still haven't specified. If the volume functions don't work also then you need to replace your keyboard. You are the first person with a v9 of anything on this thread.

Ummmmm.... To control the display backlighting you press the Orange Fn key and either the Up or Down Arrow Keys. If you have a non-factory display you only get Minimum or Maximum brightness. For the keyboard backlight you press Fn and the Space bar. The service techs may not have reconnected all of the ribbon cables so removing the keyboard and double checking that they are indeed connected could fix it. I have no clue how old your laptop (or keyboard) is so the backlights could have died if they do not turn on.

Read OP. Seriously, can people do things on their own?

My bad... I confused your post with another and gave the wrong advice. Glad to hear you got it to work!

What I meant was a clean install. As for the second part of your post, I have no clue since I am not that knowledgeable about the flashing process.

Try wiping the EVO from another computer and install Windows from a disc with only the EVO connected and see if that fixes your problem. You can always flash the mod for v8.1 and see if that fixes it if my suggestion before this doesn't work. If you want stock GPU clocks don't run it under Lenovo Dynamic Graphics since that is the power scheme that has the 1Ghz clocks. High Performance keeps the clocks at 885Mhz. You can also use NVidia Inspector to manually adjust clock speeds.

There is most likely a screen whitelist as well. I have asked this question as well as 1 other person and we both have been ignored on this front. svl7: OP; provider of mods, has most likely abandoned this thread and it appears others (who have worked on mods of their own) have too, so any of them probably will not be of help. I would attempt looking into it but I lack the required know-how and tools to do I got my Y580 a few weeks after launch and two weeks after I took possession my sister cracked my screen. You just get used to only having min/max brightness... What screen did you get? I originally had a shitty LG replacement and now run an AUO B156HW01 V7. Good hunting!

First off, there is a way you can read all 119 pages (as of this post): it's called time. I and many others on this thread have done this so it is possible. I have had pretty much all my questions answered by reading this thread entirely and If I come across one, it is probably here somewhere. But your question did not live here until your post. I am no coding wizard, but if you got the modded BIOS from a link in this thread, there is NO virus in the BIOS files you installed. If there was a virus in your BIOS, IMHO, corrupted files would be the least of your worries. You most likely have a virus. If the same issue showed up on a recovery install, then the recovery also includes the issue. Find an official Windows 7 .iso and burn it to a disc or create a bootable USB and install it fresh. Forget about using your recovery since it seems that has the same issue too. If you still have the same problem after the fresh install and with all the drivers and programs you use installed, then you really have problem on your hands. To me at least, the above is common sense.

What I've seen: 1) Format flash drive to FAT32 and place an official BIOS from Lenovo matching the stock one it had 2) Place USB in a 2.0 port (usually on right side) 3) Follow http://forum.techinferno.com/lenovo-ibm/2260-lenovo-y580-y480-unlocked-bios-versions-107.html#post80906 4) (Hopefully) Profit!

Already has been explained in this thread.

No. You are in the wrong forum. Create a new one saying exactly what you want to do here: Lenovo / IBM Whatever your error code is, it most likely has already been answered in this thread. If you read from the beginning or search this thread, you will be able to find an answer.

I must clarify my previous post. I have ShadowPlay working under Windows 8.1 64-bit, and not in Windows 7 HP 64-bit. I have reinstalled the 337.50 drivers multiple times, regular and clean install, and now before posting this I uninstalled the driver itself and GeFE (could not uninstall PhyX due to the missing uninstall folder in Installer2...) and did a fresh driver install. SP still does not work even after the fresh install. After the fresh install and launching GeFE for the first time after the restart, I was able to get SP to turn on and it started configuring itself. After a few seconds of configuration the screen flashed black and SP turned off. After the screen came from black, and from then on, I can click the SP power button to my hearts content and nothing happens. Anybody else with this same problem or SP working under Windows 7??

I got ShadowPlay to work by reinstalling the drivers and choosing the "Express" Install setting and after the driver finished installing, ShadowPlay turned on (haven't tested yet). If choosing the "Customize" does anything to SP working, I don't know... I deleted the NvStreamSrv, LEDVisualizer, and the N3DVision folders since I had no use of it (Streaming and N3DVision), or was incompatable (LEDV) before the reinstall. My logic is that there's simply is no use wasting SSD space and having useless processes running... I did that with all the previous drivers and had no issues since Mobile GPUs were not supported for a lot of GFE's features. Now it looks like to get ShadowPlay to work (Capture Service most likely) you have to have streaming capabilities (Streamer Services)... It is disappointing that for one, Nvidia cannot add a few lines of code to delete the old driver folder(s) in the Nvidia folder in C: and the Installer2 folder in Program Files/Nvidia, and separate the different features so that we can choose what we want to install. They used to be able to do that...

Shadowplay does the same for me. After looking on the GeFE 2.0 forum, there's already someone who has a 660M and posted exactly the same question but there is no Mod reply to it as of this post. Besides the general "do a clean install" the Mod's are giving, there's no solution now...

Is there a way to enable display brightness in the BIOS? My screen was cracked by my sister shortly after I bought it after it first came out and have lost that control ever since. Even with the same exact display as the factory screen as a replacement (Lenovo wanted $400 to replace it), I was not able to change the brightness from min and max. I ended up buying the AUO B156HW01 V.7 and I find it to be superior to the stock display. Though I have used the AUO for close to a year and only had the stock display for roughly two weeks, so I have some bias from not being able to remember... There is a post on the bottom of page 77 (http://forum.techinferno.com/lenovo-ibm/2260-lenovo-y580-y480-unlocked-bios-versions-77.html#post54202) requesting this same thing, but it was never acknowledged or replied to...

I would still do it. That is the main reason why I flashed the BIOS' featured here was to remove the Wi-Fi whitelist, the added performance is just an extra bonus since I do game The only extra thing I wish the modded BIOS' included was a way to remove the LCD whitelist, or whatever it is, so I can have brightness control over a replacement LCD. Even when I replaced the LCD with the "same" model, I still did not have brightness control...

Is it Windows 8 or 8.1??? I have Windows 8.1 and I was able to get the clocks to read 1000Mhz after changing some of the settings, like ASPM and some of the other settings detailed a few pages back, on svl7's BIOS. I flashed ErYani's BIOS and was unable to make the same changes to get the clocks to read 1000Mhz, even now while using svl7's BIOS again. If only I written down the changes to know what worked and share... For me, when on Windows 7 the clocks still are maxed at 405Mhz like how it has been using Windows 8.1.

ErYani, I downloaded your BIOS and got errors from the extraction using WinRAR on Windows 8.1. I do have the v2.07 BIOS btw. Also I have what files WinRAR did extract in another screenshot.

Thanks! You mentioned having the 6300AGN in a 3x3 config, so where did you place the third antenna within the housing? I'm leaning more towards the 7260 for the lower power consumption and temps. I am in college and am not sure on my school's wireless setup so I don't think the connection speed could be a major difference between the two. Plus, I would have a Wi-Fi card that will last a few years until the next latest and greatest Wi-Fi standard comes out.

I am considering on buying the Intel 7260 Wi-Fi adapter to upgrade my Y580. For those who have already installed the modded BIOS and have the Intel card installed, what kind of improvements or quirks were observed? I know I don't have the 5 posts to download the BIOS yet, but I want to see if it is worth the hassle before I fully commit to it.