Crushinator

First off, I got my bios unlocked and fixed my issues because of that. So thank you very much!! Secondly, I borked my y410p by changing a setting somewhere. Now my system boots with no display. Not even the Lenovo logo right after power is applied. If I unplug the power or plug it in after powering it on, I get a beep (unplug) or two beeps (plug in). Otherwise there is no other sound produced outside of the very faint hum of the fans. The keyboard backlight comes on, so it's obviously getting power. I think I screwed with too many display settings. I was hoping someone here might know a way to flash it back to factory or something? I'm open to ideas! I've pondered the hdd cradle to try to get my bios backup onto a USB stick ('cause I'm dumb and didn't do this already) and seeing if I can find a list of keystrokes to start the process of flashing it back that way, but I'd rather ask around first. Maybe someone could just record what the keystrokes are from the "Novo" button's menu (accessing BIOS). Like Novo Button > XX seconds delay to allow boot and the menu to appear > arrow down 1x to highlight edit bios and press enter > press blah blah to restore default settigns? For what it's worth, this is the v1.07 bios mod downloaded from this thread. *edit* I did google image searches for screenshots of each step from the novo menu to the main screen of the bios, and tried what I thought would be keystrokes to reset settings, and save and exit, and yet there was no reboot. I may have done something worse than I thought. I tried checking YouTube for videos of how to access my cmos battery to forcefully reset the bios to factory settings, but I can't find the y410p or even a y510p to see.

i mention the connection because I recently noticed my laptop is using the Intel HD 4600 to push my display to my TV. For some reason it is automatically an interlaced feed instead of progressive, so my options in the Intel Display panel are for 60i hertz, and 60p hertz (along with other numerical designations, but always either interlaced or progressive). If I change that to 60 hertz progressive, I lose sound. I can't choose to have my nVidia run my display either, it defaults to the HD 4600. Which I hate. I don't care about power consumption, I care about performance and gaming. Dunno if this makes any difference to anyone.

I'm having almost identical issues to the OP. I'm not ALWAYS getting the black screen with the "grinding to a halt" sound coming from the GPU sound. (Mine isn't black screen but instead whatever was on-screen at the time of crash stays on-screen) But that's common enough. I get "regular" crashes, too. Ones with problem reports to submit to Zenimax/Bethesda, as well as the occasional "Your display driver has stopped responding and was successfully recovered." I, too, have 0 issues in any other applications. I'm running a Lenovo y410p w/ 1TB mechanical HDD, 8GB RAM, nVidia GT 750M w/ 2gb GDDR5, win 8.1 64-bit, 4th gen (haswell) i7. I have attempted many things with no beneficial effect further out than 36 hours. This includes rolling drivers back to stock drivers that came with the laptop and incrementing them towards current. (Both Intel onboard and nVidia dedicated) I've been told by ESO (via bug report) to "reduce settings." but I've played at settings from Ultra High to Low, and seen no stability improvements. I'll try to remember to update your thread here if I find a resolution. I've got a thread going in the ESO Forums, also. So far no solutions, but at least ideas. If it matters, I have this issue regardless of whether I'm playing on the laptop screen or whether I'm using HDMI-out to my Pioneer A/V receiver, then HDMI from receiver to my LED TV.

anyone know if the advanced BIOS menu options in the y410p allow for disabling the onboard Intel HD 4600 graphics processor? I want my machine to render everything using the nVidia GT 750M. I think I'm having serious issues with the Optimus process. I have been playing ESO and running GPU_Z to see what's going on. I'm at my wit's end. I see in the log for GPU_Z that the load on my 750M goes to absolutely 0 across the board for a single second (1s intervals on reporting). That moment is when my system crashed. Occasionally the crash will grind my system to a halt, making the sound even "grind to a halt." Most of the time, I just simply get an application error message, with a crash report. In that crash report, it reads that my GPU is the Intel HD 4600. I've never had a crash report that says anything about my nVidia GT 750M. I would like to do some troubleshooting to see if disabling the HD 4600 from within the BIOS can prevent the crashing. If it does, I don't know whether there is another way to disable the load-switching, or if I would have to leave my integrated graphics disabled. Anyone able to weigh in on this?

I would like the opposite to happen. I don't have the SLI config, but "disabling" my HD4600 in my device manager suddenly makes my computer not recognize that it has the nVidia 750M attached. I get an error when trying to access the nVidia control panel that my display is not connected to an nVidia GPU. I'm trying to find a way to unlock my bios to disable the onboard graphics card completely, so that it is not even recognized by windows. Even in safe mode if I uninstall the HD 4600 device, it reinstalls again upon a standard boot. Lenovo y410p nVidia GT 750M 2gb gddr5 1tb HDD @ 5700 8GB ram 4th gen Haswell i7 any ideas on how to mirror the issue you guys are seeing? I don't have the SLI option, so if that is the only reason the HD 4600 wasn't being recognized then I'm back to square One until I can try to download the bios mods.

Just took my niece to "Mr. Peabody" and ... well.... it was awful. - - - Updated - - - Also finally watched "Olympus has Fallen" and that, too, was just terribad. Red circles were graphically added to make it look like bulletwounds. It was potentially the worst action-fx movie I've seen in a very very long time. This is why I'm a gamer. I can at least participate, so even when the story is bad, I'm part of it, and partially to blame. - - - Updated - - - I'm not a huge fan of either, and have never been a huge fan of drama. But that having been said, I have heard this was a great movie. I'm an ENORMOUS fan of Physics and astro-physics. Any chance this movie appeals to the science side of the story, or is it just story?

I'm embarrassed to admit my guilty pleasure ... Dubstep .... Knife Party ftw.

Been trying to fix an issue with my laptop and GPU, hoping that unlocking my bios will make it possible. Need 5 posts, so please forgive the spam