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Try 7-Zip, sometimes it works better than WinRAR, as for programming a bios chip you're likely going to need an EPROM burner, (if you want to desolder it) but there are a variety of different chips out there... You could try to 'one-key' re-flash (aka blind recovery), -download a recent version of bios from the manufacturer -extract with 7Zip -find the .fd file (rename it to the recovery filename, different for different versions of Alienwares) -copy it to a clean FAT/FAT32 formatted USB -plug in into the eSATA port -then hold the END key while powering on -it'll beep a bunch of times and restart a bunch of times I had no luck finding the recovery filename for your bios, maybe someone else can...
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Has anyone tried the Fn+B method. There's a write up for a y580 Edmar Hobby - Electronic: Lenovo Ideapad Y580 Insyde Bios Reset/Recovery. A couple of years back I had a bricked Lenovo come back to life using a similar method... Unless CPU power is cut off completely you should be able to re-flash the bios, unless I'm missing something here.
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Exceedingly slow Win8.1 bootup time
nutterbutter replied to nutterbutter's topic in General Notebook Discussions
Number of Processors? I totally forgot about that option. I was tinkering with it for a little while (it's my friends laptop), and after re-installing a clean system (downloaded an install usb from Microsoft/not the OEM restore) it seems to start a lot faster, still not as fast as I'd like, but its down to about 45 sec - 1 min from a previous infinity of 20min... I'm going to see if I can shave that down a bit more... -
Lenovo y510p performance.
nutterbutter replied to MaeseppTarvo's topic in General Notebook Discussions
If you want a sweet gaming rig Desktop is the way to go. On the other hand you could try the newer NVidia drivers, I had an issue with one of the older drivers a couple of months back. I've played BF4 and BioShock Infinite with no issues at decent settings on my y510p. Minimum System Requirements: OS: Windows 7 64 bit or higher Processor: Intel Core2 Duo or better Memory: 2 or more GB RAM Graphics: DirecteX 10.1 compatible (512MB) or better DirectX: Version 11 Hard Drive: 50 or more GB available space Sound Card: 9.0c compatible Honestly I don't know why you're having issues. If you have the Ultrabay card, sometimes a new driver update disables the second card, take a look in the NVidia Control Panel... -
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Re-watched The Dark Knight Rises, I swear the villains are always way more interesting the bat-dude in the Batman films...
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Laptop: Lenovo y510p i7 4700MQ 8GB DDR3 960GB SandDisk Ultra II SLI NVidia 750m Server: Rackable 2U 2x Intel L5420 2.5Ghz Quad Core 12MB 32GB 667MHz DDR2 ECC Intel S5000PSL MOBO 2TB + 2TB + 250GB HDDs
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Awesome Thread!
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Is there a reason why an i5, 8GB ram laptop would take 10-20 minutes to boot up? The HDD passed DTS, no SMART errors, and the windows error checking found nothing, RAM has no issues, tested in a separate laptop. The system was restored from a Recovery partition (i.e. the OS partition was overwritten), same results, takes forever to boot up, granted the HDD is a 5400 rpm with barely any cache, but still it should not take that long, it booted just fine in the past... Bios? Some weird corrupt Recovery partition?