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Which Y580s came with the 5DCN89WW (v8.00) bios and which came with the 5DCN89WW (v8.01) bios? I think my problem might have to do with that. Can anyone figure out which bios mine came with (P/N is 59359510)? I can't remember what bios mine came with, because I don't know where the backup went, and I flashed it back in March. I've read in other paces people having the same issues with Crucial mSATAs with similarly equipped Y580s, so I'm thinking it may not be a faulty hardware issues. At least I hope not! Thanks!

I've been running the 8.01 hacked bios for over 6 months now. For the first couple of months, everything was fine. Then I started having booting issues once a month, then once every two weeks, until now when I'm experiencing issues all the time. My issue is that the bios loses the ability to find my UEFI bootable ssd with Ubuntu 13.04 and Win 7 partitions (downgraded from Win 8 when purchased). Although, it finds the UEFI non-bootable 1TB hdd and the blue-ray drive almost always. I've narrowed down the problem to when the laptop loses power when either OS is not shut down properly or when the battery dies when either OS is hibernating/sleeping. The laptop loses all power sometimes, because of the second issue I'm facing where the laptop detects the battery but doesn't charge it in either OS. So therefore, if the battery doesn't charge, I close the lid to sleep Win/Ubuntu or hibernate Win and/or unplug the cord, my laptop loses all power, and the bios loses the ability to discover the ssd when I try to reboot next. I disabled my swap partition in Ubuntu to free up space on my ssd, so I can't hibernate the OS. I can get the laptop to work, but that takes 10-40 mins (sometimes a day) of constantly rebooting the laptop, draining the CMOS battery, loading optimized defaults, loading either Win 8 defaults or other OS defaults, and turning off the PXE boot thing if default settings are selected. The few times the screen has gone blank, I've been able to do some version of the trick where the battery is pulled out, plug removed, pressing the power button for some time (sometimes holding the Fn button too), reconnecting the power cord without the batter, and rebooting while holding down some key combination I can't remember off the top of my head. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. Why am I having trouble with the bios discovering my ssd if it loses power without a proper shut down, why is my batterhy randomly and often not charging even though it's detected in both OS, and how do I fix this? Yes, AHCI is enabled. Thank you very much! Mike