TheTester

You're absolutely right - time is the price for all of the knowledge gathered here. But unfortunately I don't have this luxury right now so I choose your experience to help me overcome this. I don't think virus is somewhere in modded BIOS because that would be already brought up. But like I said - I needed to exclude every possibility. Just to be sure and to have better picture of what can be wrong in my case. And because there was no one with similar issues then I can strike this off my list. After another few hours I spent with my laptop I now know that second accident was somehow different then first one. This time data wasn't corrupted. It would only seems like boot partition was damaged. I had recovery disk from another PC (Y580 is my second computer) but it didn't help me here. BTW I don't need to look for iso because I have Win on DVD. I bought clean laptop. Anyway - thanks for answer. At least now I can look for origin of this issue somewhere else.

Hi I have a little problem with my Y580 and I wanted to check every possibility that there is... I have used Lenovo Y580 / Y480 BIOS v2.07 (5DCN40WW) (don't remember where I got it thought - it was long ago) version of modded BIOS. Short description of problem itself: Last Thursday I've closed lid of my laptop as usual to get it to sleep. When I opened it few hours later I saw Windows 7 boot prompt with two options: boot normally and recovery. Both did the same thing - reboot to this screen again. After investigating I found out that system partition had a lot of files corrupted, to the extend that recovery CD didn't see this partition at all. Many hours later I manage to recover some files and reinstall Windows on *new* drive (I bought mSATA SSD). During installation process laptop has rebooted many times. It worked for one day during which it was rebooted, putting to sleep mode etc. and worked just fine. When I got up this morning I turn it on only to find out boot prompt instead of Windows... There are only few things I can thing about that could cause this: 1. Some virus that is stored in BIOS. 2. Something is wrong in moded BIOS (like controller). 3. I have another partition (big storage) that could have virus two but I doubt it. As you may see there are two possibilities that involves moded BIOS. And like I said - I want to exclude everything that I can in a quest of pin down this issue... This thread has over 100 pages so there's no way for me to read everything. That's way I would like to ask you for your help. Did you have or seen someone who have problem like this? Or maybe you have some tips?