G550 2958 Problems

Hello,
I am having a problem with the laptop mentioned in the subject line. First, I kept on getting an error when booting up, it would say this message: http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f234/drewster88/100_1351.jpg
So I decided to open up the hard drive area and motherboard area. I took the hard drive out and put it back in. I took out the two sticks of ram and put them back in. I now turn on the laptop and nothing on the screen comes up. The only thing that happens is the LED light for both the power and battery light up. Also I heard the cdrom drive boot up as well with a noise. The fan does not turn on either.
What do you guys think happened?

Changing the boot order may have caused the original
problem (screen shot you linked to).
Boot order should should not cause the current no boot
problem, but no way to set to default if you can not reach BIOS.
So, with HD Out, no boot?
Try removing one of the memory sticks.
Do you have access to a known good memory stick to try?
Try removing the DVD drive.
Basically, when I service a problem like that, I first
remove everything I can, and see if there is a change.
So if I had battery, HD, WLAN card and DVD out, and a known
good memory in, and still no boot, I would guess the motherboard
has a problem.
May have got zapped with static electricity when pulling memory, for example.

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Installing the latest conexant driver from Lenovo's driverpage just makes windows unable to even recognize that a headphone is plugged in.
However using older drivers makes me able to see that a headphone is plugged in, even indicating that there is sound ( by the moving green volume indicator), but no sound is coming out?
I would really dislike the idea of sending it back another 2-3 weeks, since it is such a minor problem.. Yet frustrating..
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Speakers = Ok!
Mini Jack Line out = X
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// Christian C. Bach

Hi there:
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Hello...
I currently use the Lenovo G550 running on Windows 7
This laptop is currently less than a year old
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Upon startup W/O battery/powercord, the system starts up and three lights appear, Power, Battery(Unless removed) and another light that looks like a trashcan (dunno what's called)
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G550 fan problem

Problem with the fan is that it spins up and then down very often. For example when idling the fan spins up for a 2-3 seconds and stops for a couple of seconds. This spin up/down cycle keeps repeating.
This model has GeForce G 105M graphic card.
GPU automaticly lowers the clock speeds when it's not needed. The speeds are (when idling):
GPU core clock 169.0 MHz
GPU shaders clock 338.0 MHz
GPU memory clock 100.0 MHz
Processor also lowers it's clock speed & voltage. (Intel Pentium T4200). Other specs are:
Lenovo G550 15.6" WXGA HD/T4200/4GB/320GB/Vista Home Premium.
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Mainboard Vendor LENOVO
Mainboard Model NITU1
Temperature sensor 0 41°C (105°F) [0x29] (CPU)
Temperature sensor 6 28°C (82°F) [0x1C] (Battery #1)
ACPI hardware monitor
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Intel Pentium T4200 hardware monitor
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Temperature sensor 1 34°C (93°F) [0x42] (Core #1)
GeForce G 105M hardware monitor
Temperature sensor 0 45°C (112°F) [0x2D] (GPU Core)
Hitachi HTS543232L9A300 hardware monitor
Temperature sensor 0 48°C (118°F) [0x30] (HDD)
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The fan spins longer when the load is higher. So no problems with that.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Hi all,
I have the exact same problem and after an extensive search on the web, I have some bad news! Unless Lenovo releases a new bios with a finer fan management, we are stuck with that problem.
As I understand it, we have no PWM (pulse width management) on our motherboard and thus the fan speed is either at full speed, ~half speed or stopped, instead of having a finer control. Furthermore, the algorithm is implemented with small intervals, switching too fast between two threshold (5° instead of 10° optimally). And the worst thing, which is really getting on my nerves right now, is the lack of hysteresis management (as soon as a threshold is crossed, either way, the speed changes immediately).
Let me know if I'm wrong here but I'm pretty sure about it.
I'll try replacing the fan with a quieter one but I still didn't found a compatible one. I suggest in the mean time that all of us with the same problem write to Lenovo for a bios release! (but don't count too much on it)
Regards,
N.

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