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Also - when you take out your hard drive, you can buy this caddy 9 5mm SATA 2nd Hard Drive Disk HDD Caddy Adapter for Lenovo IdeaPad Y510P Y510PT | eBay i have that exact one and it works great in the ultrabay slot when you want to use it for extra storage
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^ that's definitely what i'd do, IF you can still change out your regular ssd for an msata. If not, i followed this guide for transferring my old hdd onto my new ssd - as far as dealing with the cache, i haven't done it but it might be as simple as uninstalling lenovo expresscache, or if you don't have that, then disabling acceleration in intel rapid storage management. i'm not 100% that's all there is to it though, or whether once you've done that the ssd is free for general use. but the 24gb is pretty meager anyway.
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i have an oldish cooling pad i use on my lap with one large fan. typically my ultrabay card will hit 98 pretty quick playing skyrim or warcraft but with the cooling pad i can often times stay in the low 90's and never have it throttle down. i'm gonna repaste it anyway though.
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yep. checking now still no bios update, i'd be shocked if one was actually coming. i can't see why they'd put a whitelist in in the first place if they just planned to remove it in an update later.
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not sure if you'll read this, but this is probably a driver problem, unless you installed the new vbios and then pulled the ultrabay card out simultaneously or something weird. i updated the vbios with no issues, though the first time i restarted my y510p after removing the ultrabay video card it did all sorts of weird stuff but eventually if you re-install the nvidia driver it will get itself together. also in my experience a lot of times optimus will hide your dedicated card in some ways and make it harder to see that it's there.
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and one more question - would you all say that the intel 7260 linked here Amazon.com: Intel Network 7260.HMWG WiFi Wireless-AC 7260 H/T Dual Band 2x2 AC+Bluetooth HMC: Computers & Accessories is still the best wireless card for this laptop? i'm unable to find if there is an update or one will be coming out soon. i don't have super high wireless needs, but i'm going to try to setup a synology home network soon and it might be nice to be able to transfer to it quickly
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sorry if this is asked and answered but it won't let me do a search for the word, but does this bios mod let you change fan speeds?