tabarnakos

I just got this laptop and am running Windows 8.1 with latest Nvidia drivers, BIOS 3.05.. So far I've played Tomb Raider and Assassin's Creed 3 & 4 at the max FPS this laptop can handle without running into any kind of issues. I am a casual gamer though, rarely more than 45min at a time

Anyone else noticed that Lenovo is now selling a new build(59399853) with a better wireless card? In fact it's the very Intel 7260, but the wifi N only version instead of the newer draft AC

So svl7, are you going to port the whitelist mod to the 3.05 BIOS version?

I you do, I'll owe you a beer big time (probably even more)

Yeah...

Ultrabay is quite new in the ideapad range. I hope they will continue to put it in their designs, to generate enough demand for them to actually sell some!

I would love to swap out my dvd for an extra battery, but I don't think ideapad Ultrabay supports second batteries

I'm still running win 8 not 8.1 is that a factor?

Yes when it comes to drivers, Windows 8.1 is very different than Window 8. That change in naming convention from Microsoft suggests an upgrade, but we should consider it as a different version of the OS, same as Vista and 7

For all of you who are probably reading this thread after horrible disappointment of the Wifi card : I managed to fix all of my problem by downloading the new Windows 8.1 driver directly from the Intel website. Just before installing it, I uninstalled the current one in the device manager and proceeded to the installation.

Note that Windows update still thinks he is better than me, and wants to "update" my driver to the Windows 8 version, which was causing the disconnections in the first place. You can kill these notifications by right-clicking on the update in the Windows update and tell it to never notify you anymore for that specific update.

It has been working wonderfully for several hours now, including multiple torrent downloads at 30mbits/s. You still don't get the 5Ghz support nor the AC standard, but at least the standard N is decent.

I asked Lenovo online chat today about Y410p/Y510p ultrabay accessories, here was their answer :

You may contact out Spare parts support at 1-800-388-7080.They will available from 8 AM - 8 PM EST.[\QUOTE]

I guess we are all out of luck...

I'd be curious as well. Mine came with the SLI option, but I'd much rather have the optical drive.

If you're in the US we could arrange a trade

I've got a Y410p though, it should be compatible

Hi, I just bought this laptop as of today and managed to change the HDD for my SSD and fougth for the last couple of hours with EFI, Secureboot and drivers. I did notice that the Wifi card is pretty much the worst I have ever seen, and modding the BIOS seems like a very promising solution, however, I am stuck with the new BIOS 3.05

Two questions here :

1 - Where do you find the older bios versions? I have enabled the flashing of older version, so in theory I could just reflash an older one.

2 - svl7: modding theses BIOSes is truely amazing, how do you proceed and can I help in the development of the 3.05 mod?