TheCoolGuy

I found the same of the mix from above. A week before my warranty ended, i broke my first Y510p. Lenovo kept it for about 8 days before sending it back to me and saying that the warranty had expired. When i filed the RMA claim, it was within it's warranty period, but by the time they received it, it had expired. I couldn't get them to agree to do the work, and the only issue was the SSD that came with mine, had failed and died. Becuase i didn't have the recovery partition anymore, i couldn't recover it without hassle and headache. I figured "If they'll fix it, i'll use it until i really need a new laptop"... but then i got another Lenovo anyways, due to the cost vs specs. Anything similar from anyone else was over 300 dollars more, so i decided that bad support vs saving 300 bucks was a good trade. I haven't had another issue aside from dead WIFI N card in my new laptop now (Bought it in May, not even a year old), and i don't feel like shipping it to them and using the warranty replacement to fix just a wifi card. Time to do it myself and flash the BIOS, and if it breaks, i'll send it in anyways, and claim i was updating the BIOS and it died. Either way, no risk, no harm, no loss, and saved a bit of cash.

This is my second Lenovo Y510p laptop, the first one had one 650m, the 2nd one has 2 755m's in SLI. Can you maybe help me figure out if they're running at the exact same speed as well? or is the External PCI-E one running at x4 while the internal is x8? any performance boost from using a single card, vs dual? or dedicating one to PhysX? what's the best setup for gaming in regards to those dual 755m cards? and would i be better off tossing a Blu-Ray drive in?

The other issue that Lenovo wants to avoid is users modifying the laptop with a new device and then sending it out for service when there's nothing wrong with the laptop itself. All this causes is oxymoronic problems like "My wireless card died, instead of fixing it myself, now i need to send it to lenovo". Their service rep told me that it was like shooting themselves in the foot, what they planned to reduce repairs and needless shipping now caused more issues.

actually, it's NOT white-listed. Whitelisting means "allowing" the device. Blacklisted means banning. If the device is not specified in the whitelist, it won't work at all. If it's also specified in the blacklist, a whitelist mod won't affect the card's inability to function. Whitelisting a device just means adding it to allowed devices, but yes, you are very correct. It will not function without the update to the BIOS, and on some models, without also modding the VBIOS as well.

There were issues with Intel's latest few batches of chips. I'm more concerned with the difficulty of attaching the EXACT same chip into the laptop (an updated version of the same model) not working, but putting an older chip works just fine. Lenovo has been having serious issues with their quality of product lately.

Thanks for the file and post, but can you put it up somewhere that doesn't require 100 forum subscriptions to use? It's inconvenient to have to register to yet ANOTHER forum that i don't plan on sticking around on. Again though, great work!