G505s Overheating

I have a G505s laptop with Windows 7 64 bit installed. Whenever i play game like Assassin's Creed 4 or Batman Arkham City, I can play smoothly for about 15 minutes and after that it keeps pausing in the game. I notice that this happens because it heats up a lot. I would be glad for any support.

hi parthyawale55,
Welcome to Lenovo Community Forums!
Can you try this setting.
Set the Maximum Processor State to 99% and see if it an maintain a working temperature while gaming.
http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/how-to-prevent-your-laptop-from-overheating-windows-7/
Let me know your findings
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Lenovo G505s: Overheating?

Hello.
Is it normal for the temperature of the GPU to fluctuate around 60C when I'm not really doing anything on my laptop (Lenovo G505s)? So far it has turned itself off twice because of overheating (I think that's the reason, as each time it was really hot right after I turned it back on). Today I played a video (format: MKV, 1080p), and the temperature went up to 86C after just a few minutes. I figured it was getting a bit too high, so I closed the video for fear that the laptop might turn itself off again.
What could be the cause?
Thanks in advance.

Hi DN01,
Welcome to Lenovo Community Forums!
I’m sorry to hear that your G505s Laptop is getting overheated, I suggest you to perform “Dust Removal” feature provided in “Lenovo Energy Management” to make sure there is no dust particles in the CPU FAN and also make sure you use the Laptop on a Flat surface to increase the air flow in the Laptop.
Do post us back if the issue still persists.
Best Regards
Shiva Kumar
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Lenovo G505 Wifi Problems - Limited Connection, No Connection, and Dropped Connections

Some forum members have reported a variety of Wifi issues with their G505 laptops. Their reports range from showing "Connection is limited", to Wifi connections dropping repeatedly, to being unable to make a Wifi connection at all. I combined multiple threads in order to assist forum members with troubleshooting solutions.
If your G505 was upgraded to Windows 8.0 or 8.1 and then lost connectivity, or you recently purchased a G505 running Windows 8.0 or 8.1 and are unable to connect, try following the instructions posted by Vikramsbox to restore the connection through the Lenovo Communications Utility.
For non-Windows 8.0 or 8.1 users, start troubleshooting with the basics:
The most recent WLAN, BIOS, and Power Management drivers from Lenovo can be downloaded here: http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/products/laptops-and-netbooks/lenovo-g-series-laptops/lenovo-g505-no...
It is also good practice to verify your Wifi is activated by following the instructions from Neokenchi.
Check Power Management settings to ensure your laptop isn't turning off the Wifi as noted by Dannyk1.
Check to see that Airplane Mode is set to OFF by following the instructions provided by Shiv_K.
After trying those steps, if you still experience a Wifi issue with your G505, other troubleshooting steps have been noted in this thread. This includes a whitelist of accepted replacement WLAN cards posted by Topmahof and a 3rd party driver which resolved wifi issues for Miila and Jessemck125. Please note that while Lenovo does not support 3rd part drivers, it may be an option to consider if your laptop is out of warranty and none of the suggestions in the thread resolve the issue.
Thanks for your contributions,
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First is to update your Atheros/Broadcom driver for your G505 here:http://download.lenovo.com/consumer/mobiles/wlan117w8.exe
From what I understand, the situation is that you get limited connectivity while your other devices that are connected to the router gets uninterrupted internet access.
After updating your drivers, you can try to flush your DNS cache by copy and pasting this code to your notepad and saving it as FlushDNS.bat
@Echo on
pushd\windows\system32\drivers\etc
attrib -h -s -r hosts
echo 127.0.0.1 localhost>HOSTS
attrib +r +h +s hosts
popd
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
ipconfig /flushdns
netsh winsock reset all
netsh int ip reset all
shutdown -r -t 1
del %0
Note that this will restart your computer so make sure to save your session first.
Here's the link that explains the benefit of flushing DNS: http://www.sevenforums.com/network-sharing/144365-network-posting-tips.html
Hope this resolves your random "limited connectivity" problem.
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G505s how to use Bluetooth?

Hello, I am trying to connect my G505s to my Bose wireless speaker via Bluetooth. I am not able to find anything relating to Bluetooth in my Device Manager and no Bluetooth drivers. The Bluetooth symbol does not appear in my Windows Taskbar as I've seen it on other PCs. I am running Windows 8.1.
Things I have done so far:
- I downloaded the Atheros,Broadcom driver for Windows 8.1 (8.0.1.306/12.0.0.7850) from the Lenovo website. When I try to install it I am told that there are no valid drivers to be installed.
-I followed the help instructions from Windows which said to go into Settings > Change PC Settings > PC & Devices and ensure that Bluetooth is there. Microsoft states that Bluetooth capable computers should have a Bluetooth settings page in here. I don't have one.
- From some reading online I came across instructions to run services.msc and change the Bluetooth settings in there. I followed these instructions and didn't have any luck. All of the Bluetooth listings in here state that Bluetooth is running.
- Made sure that my computer setting to locate other devices is enabled.
I'm not really sure if this computer is Bluetooth ready or not. If it isn't, I'm not sure why there are Bluetooth things "running" in services.msc though...
Solved!
Go to Solution.

hi s_hoek,
Yes the LiteOn Atheros should have the BT capability.
Please try Downloading these two (don't install yet)
WLAN Driver (Atheros, Broadcom)
and
Bluetooth Driver (Atheros, Broadcom)
Then Open Device Manager and Uninstall the WLAN placing a check under Delete Driver Software for this Device
Then Install the WLAN driver Restart the system then install the Bluetooth Driver.
Let me know your findings
Cheers!
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G505 How to do a Clean Install Windows 8.1 Core instead of Windows 8.0 Core?

Hi,
I have G505 with Widows 8.0 core installed. I would like to do a clean install of Windows 8.1 core. So I installed but it ask for the activation key which I do not have. I thought we can use the same activation key for Windows 8.1 core. How do you activate it if it is possible.
Or do I have to install Windows 8.0 core and then upgrade to Windows 8.1. Unfortunately I do not have a copy of Windows 8.0 core.
Thanks for any help.

hi magi44ken,
This might be because the WInodws 8.1 installer you used is a retail version and not an OEM from Lenovo.
The path should be Windows 8.0 then upgrade it. this way the Key inside the BIOS will be recognized and reactivated.
Try Doing a Onekey Recovery and see if the Recovery Partition is still active to revert the system back to Windows 8.0. Turn off the computer and hit the Movo button , see if recovery will be available.
If not, you will need to call Lenovo Technical Support to Obtain a copy of the Windows 8.0 install, (fees may apply).
Regards
Solid Cruver
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G505s random cpu throttling!

This is really frustrating, my cpu can't decide what frequency it should be at when I'm running fullscreen applications. It keeps jumping between 900, 1400, and 2500 mhz. No this isn't the charging issue and my bios is 2.05. The other issue I have is that I can't use turbo mode because when the cpu hits 75c, it downclocks to 2000mhz. I'm better off running at 2500mhz, but I can't even do that! This isn't an issue in windowed mode though so it must be some wonky software issue. I'm using windows 8, not 8.1, I've deleted most of the shovel ware and I haven't instaled anything I think would cause this. It didn't always do this. This problem started on day two. I know the laptop's fine, I really like it, but I just can't stand this crap. Anyway, please help me out of you know anything about this issue. Even if you don't know, just tell me how your g505s runs and how hot it gets so I can know if there's something actually wrong with mine.
Okay I guess it's happening in windows too. It's different for every game. It'll stay at 2.5ghz just fine in a stress test, but a game that hardly uses 50% of the cpu? It just freaks out.
I think there is also a heat issue here. Even after downclocking to 2000mhz, the cpu still hits 74c in bf4, which by the way is being bottlenecked very hard by the slow cpu. Minimum settings 20-30fps. This is very frustrating. I'm about to give up for a bit and blow off some steam playing bf4 on my desktop, high settings 1080p at 60 fps.

Hi Ryan82994,
Welcome to the forums,
Well you should not worry about the throttling btw just to make things clear what CPU do you have under your G505s hood ?
and yea you should not worry about the throttling, I got an i5 which powers my G770 and it keeps jumping from 798-2.30Ghz
I believe in full screen applications your CPU frequency increases depending on the system load you can google up intel speed step technology below is an example of my G770's CPu frequencies
hope this helps
regards
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G505s Problems with Win 8.1 and AMD radeon hd 8500m

Hi
Couple weeks back i bought my G505s laptop. It had windows 8 installed, but right after i started using it i noticed the windows 8.1 update and i downloaded and installed it.
NOW TO THE PROBLEM:
My G505s Has 2 graphic cards (that's how i supposed it to be, correct me if i'm wrong). Now, both of them are not working properly. My Lenovo Solution Center says that both of them are out of use, and also in drivers management my graphic cards are giving me the ''ERROR 43''. It's saying that i have to install the right version of it, and i've tried to do it (downloaded couple versions from AMD.com) , but it didn't work. Now my laptop has '' lack of power''
So please help me, because i want to get all the power from this laptop, and i want it to be worth of my money.
Thank you
Moderator Note; subject edited; system type added

hey t0baas1,
Welcome to the forums,
I am sorry to hear that you are facing issues with your GPU after updating to windows 8.1
I would suggest you update the drivers from here
Drivers: AMD Video Driver for Windows 8.1 (32-bit, 64-bit)
hope this helps,
regards
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G505 problems with video cards.

Lenovo G505, 59-419907, AMD A6-5200, AMD Radeon R5 M230
I suffer second day. I downloaded a lot of different drivers.
several times reinstalled windows 8.1.
after installing windows in my Device Manager, there is a Standard VGA Graphics Adapter and unknown video device
when I try to install vga drivers from the Lenovo site, or from the AMD site, both graphics card become with the error icon
- Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems. (Code 43)
Catalyst does not see the video card with an error
if I'm disable in the BIOS a discrete video card everything is OK.
as soon as I'm in the BIOS to turn on an external video card in the device manager both cards an error.
I tried to put the first driver on the onboard video card and then on the outside. nothing helps.
please help me before I killed myself.

Hi,
I have a same problem, I bought g505 (bios 3.00) but the wifi not work after few days. I think upgrade the bios, but on the official website was 2.04 version (i not understand, because i have 3.00, i think "downgrade" it), now my bios is 2.04 but the switchable graphics not work, only other option (i not remember it, maybe UMA) work, and I can't finde the 3.00 bios.
Thank for the answer, and sorry my English
Laslie

G505s - Touchpad hot key function not working with lenovo driver

I'm using windows 8.1, Lenovo G505s laptop. Recently I got replacement from Lenovo regarding touchpad after that this Fn(F7) touchpad enable/disable not working. This is happening only when I installied touchpad driver provided by lenovo and works well with standard microsoft driver (Ofcourse, no multigesture support with that driver).
We perfomed following operations:
1. HotKey mode enable/disable in BIOS
2.Reinstallation of OS
3. Reinstallation of driver(manually)
All cases with microsoft driver this function working but with touchpad driver it is not working. It's almost 90days (88thday) daily contacting both Lenovo customer support and service center people but no use.
If anybody having this problem and have a solution please share! (My machine under warranty!)

hi phani_kumar,
It's likely that you have a Synaptics driver (you can verify this by its hardware ID or use a utility software like AIDA 64 Extreme Edition).
- Link to picture (Synaptics)
- Link to picture (ELAN
If you're unable to install the driver below, can you follow this guide on how to disable driver signature enforcement then try to reinstall the driver again and observe if you can now toggle the Fn+F6.
Windows 8/7/XP/Vista 64/32-bit Edition v17.0.19
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G505S doesn't full-screen my External Monitor (1920x1080)

Hey Guys,
I've just bought a G505s IDEAPAD with the follwing spec's:
AMD A8-4500M, 4 x 1,9 - 2,8 GHz, 4096 KB L2-Cache
AMD Radeon HD 7640G
4GB DDR3
I'm running Windows 7 x64 on it, all the drivers are up to date from the original Lenovo driver page.
I have hooked up an external monitor via HDMI, a Dell U2414H, and it's running in 1920x1080 resolution. My problem: The picture is not stretched all the way to the corners, there is about a 2inch black bar on the corner all around the picture, the same as if you'd watch a 16:9 film on a 16:10 screen or so, just it's all around here.
What can I do, any help?
Thanks a million!!

Yeah, that's what I ended up doing. It just wasn't worth the hassle. I got a good (standard size) monitor for about half the price of the old one, so I'm not too disappointed. Thanks for your help though

G505s: Adobe Flash Games Running Laggy & How to Enable Dual Mode?

I keep hearing about how the G505s has a dual graphics mode.
What confuses me is that when I am playing some adobe flash games online, I am noticing considerable lag, while some Win8 App games and MMOs run perfectly fine along with having quality graphics, there is no lag.
Why would certain flash games online, (I can give you the links, if you would like), gives noticeable lag while other high end MMO games run ok?
Also, I'm confused on how to access/enable dual graphics mode. What I am thinking is that my computer is using the basic video card, and I would like to switch to the advanced/2nd video card.
Is there a fix for this, or is it normal for some games to lag on the G505s?

hi
This Settings I found on Microsoft Site.
Click Start, and then click Internet Explorer.
Click the Tools icon in the upper-right corner, and then click Internet Options.
Click the Advanced tab, and then under Accelerated graphics, select the Use software rendering instead of GPU rendering check box.
Try this and see if that works,
The Drivers from Lenovo Site I think has not yet been updated, you can still update the two GPU device through the AMD Site. While the Lenovo site gets updated.
Let me know what happened with the steps below,
Best regards
Cheers!
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G505s Recovery Windows 8.1, destroys recovery partition

Microsoft state
After you install Windows 8.1, you won't be able to use the recovery partition on your PC to go back to your previous version of Windows.
How do I make a recovery media, disk or USB for my G505S ??

I should make it clear I want to make a recovery usb for Windows 8 before I upgrade

Issue with Generic PnP monitor on G505s

Hi there,
I'm running Windows 8.1 on a G505s. My brightness settings can no longer be adjusted either by hotkeys or in settings. The solution centre informed me that the Generic PnP monitor on my machine is disabled because windows couldn't read it possibly due to corruption. I tried to update the driver but it says that its already up to date.
Anybody have any ideas how I can fix this?
Thanks

Hi Krustifer,
Welcome to Lenovo Community!
I’m sorry to hear that the Brightness feature and display adapter driver is not working as expected, I suggest you to re-install the display driver and while installing the driver right click on the downloaded file and select “Run as administrator” option to get it installed without any error.
Do post us back if the issue persists.
Best Regards
Shiva Kumar
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G505s AppData error msg

I get the following error message everytime I turn my computer on & sign in:
C:\Users\MyName\AppData\Local\Temp\octDF9D.temp.exe (The 4 characters following oct change each time)
Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.
Seems like an easy fix but can't seem to figure out which app has the problem.
G505s
Windows 8.1
64-bit

boatwreck,
Welcome to Lenovo Forums !
Thank you for taking time to post your inquiry. I would like to share with you information on .temp.exe
Description: Temp.exe is not essential for Windows and will often cause problems. Temp.exe is located in a subfolder of "C:\Documents and Settings". Known file sizes on Windows 8/7/XP are 386,048 bytes (50% of all occurrences) or 13,880 bytes. http://www.file.net/process/temp.exe.html
The program has no visible window. The Temp.exe file is not a Windows core file. Therefore the technical security rating is 61% dangerous.
If Temp.exe is located in a subfolder of "C:\Program Files", the security rating is 50% dangerous. The file size is 253,952 bytes. The program has no visible window. The program is loaded during the Windows boot process (see Registry key: Run). The file is not a Windows core file.
If Temp.exe is located in C:\, the security rating is 74% dangerous. The file size is 19,456 bytes. The file is a file with no information about its developer. The program is not visible. The Temp.exe file is not a Windows system file. The process listens for or sends data on open ports to a LAN or the Internet.
If Temp.exe is located in a subfolder of C:\Windows\System32, the security rating is 52% dangerous. The file size is 83,968 bytes.
Source : click on this link
I hope that this can help
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Lenovo g505s dual graphics?

I purchased a Lenovo G505s from PC world a few months ago and just wondered whether it actually has Dual Graphics as stated by the sticker....This laptop is is an A8-4500m with AMD Radeon HD 7640g, and 4GB RAM, upgraded to 8GB. I have seen other posts about this before by nothing can solve this issue, I tried every software to try and find out if there is another graphics card in there but there is definitely not....what does this green 'Dual Graphics' sticker mean? :/

hi candywolf,
Welcome to Lenovo Community Forums!
This should show two Gaphics card under Device Manager,
Let me know if this is not the case under your Device Manager,
Regards
Solid Cruver
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