Ideapad S10 mysteries

I love my light and lovely S10 and look forward to traveling many happy trails together---
BUT
1. The User Guide simply gives no information on how to use the touch pad other than completely basic info on the two buttons and running your finger across it. I've discovered that it understands gestures, but I can't figure out exactly how to trigger certain capabilities that it seems to unexpectedly do on its own. No info anywhere on the Synaptics website, the Lenovo website or under properties. Where can I get good info on the touchpad?
(Boy do I miss my old friend, the little red button. A trac-point would be PERFECT for the S10)
2. The User Guide/lenovo website is equally useless in telling how to turn on or even use the camera. Interestingly, there is a function key that turns it off. Does that mean that is is always on otherwise? If so, how does one use it? There is nothing on the control panel under Scanners and Cameras either.
.... being the first forum poster to ask for this completely basic info makes me nervous that I've missed the obvious somewhere, but I've wasted enough time searching.
Thanks for any help-

On the touch pad functions. You can get videos on the touch pad functions (or gestures) at the Synaptics website here. Not sure if all of these are applicable for the one in the S10. While using the touch pad on my S10, sometimes I find the webpage changed size (very large or very small) so the "pinch to zoom" is working but to get back to the original size is a pain so maybe because I can't pinch correctly. If you have the same problem, you can get back to the original size by looking for the magnifying glass icon above the task bar at the right corner and select 100% manually. Hope this helps.
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Here's what you can do.
Download virtual Clone drive (freeware) from here http://www.slysoft.com/en/download.html install it on your S10.
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unless you have the ultimate and enterprise version of the win 7, then you can't change the menu system language, without having to purchase an English edition of the win 7 OS.
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Hi and welcome...
these drivers S10-3t available at download...
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Lenovo Official Announcement
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The IdeaPad S10 netbook PC will be available beginning in early October, and prices start at $399. The IdeaPad S10 netbook will be available through leading retailers, Lenovo business partners and www.lenovo.com.

Ideapad S10-3 black screen, won't boot

Hello, every body.
I have a lenovo ideapad s10-3. Right now it is black screen and won't boot, but power works.
I disassembled it, and just left CPU, graphics card, and RAM. Power works, and fan starts rotating and stops. I leave it running, i can feel CPU and Graphics Card hot.
Before this problem(black screen and won't boot) happened. sometime it can boot, somtimes it does not and black screen. Sometime after trying several time (force ti shutdown, restart power on), it boots and goes to be normal. Right now it won't work anymore.
At the left-bottom of laptop, there are 4 flash lights, the former 3 are working fine, and the last (4th. there is small arrow (two sides) in the center of cylinder, what does it mean?) does not flash. If it flashes fine, the computer works well, if not, won't work.
I clean the RAM fingerpin, won't work. Tried to connect with external screen, won't work. Remove BIOS battery, won't work. I tried another Hard Drive and RAM seperately, it does not work.
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What is going on my laptop. Please help me of this trouble. Thanks a lot.
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Hi,
1) Yeah, somehow OS X has been messed up enough that it can't finish loading. What else have you done with it lately? When I went through my machine fiddling with Quicktime in the system Library folders, I ended up where you are.
2) I don't think you can fix it from the OF prompt. I had a daily backup of my drive, and so I was able to boot off of that. You can boot back into OS 9 though, by holding down the Option key after a cold boot's chime.
4) I'd say it's worth fixing. Beats plunking down $500 or more on a new machine.
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~FifthWheel

Motherboard for IdeaPad S10

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Hi Everyone, I am trying to fix a small Ideapad S10-3 laptop for a young girl to use, it has win 7 on, but none of the hotkeys seem to work as I thought they might, it seems to me that there is Lenovo software not installed to drive the laptop functions. Also the wireless card seems to not be working, as the light bottom left is not coming on..
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you're welcome.
i'm not deeply familiar with the S-series, but please have a look at the following:
http://consumerdl.lenovo.cdn20.com/UserFiles/UserGuide/en/User%27s%20guides%20and%20manuals/S10-3/Le...
are you referring to the items marked 6 and 7 in the picture on page 1? if so, those are defined on page 2 as the OneKey Rescue system button and the Quick Start button, respectively. it qualifies that the buttons operate if the feature has been installed. there are also sections in the pdf that describe the functions in greater detail.
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hi unbeatable.
Welcome to the Lenovo Forums.
If you hear squeaky sound when you open your LCD screen or you feel that the left / right hinges are getting loose then I recommend you have it serviced as it can damage the bottom platic if left unrepaired.
You can get spare here:
Lenovo Ideapad S10-3 Left and Right Hinge Set
And you can follow this diassembly guide or this video as a reference. If you're not comfortable opening the laptop, you can have it service at a local computer repair store.
Note:
Use ESD protection and be careful in diassembling your PC as it has parts that are easily breakable.
Hope this helps.
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Lenovo Ideapad S10

I thought I may as well start a s10 thread as there seems to be a thread for every other netbook. I just received mine and I will post anything relevant to the s10 on arch here. Perhaps others have arch on s10 comments.
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webbrewer wrote:Also, the volume buttons (Fn-Left and Fn-Right) need to have keybinding to work. I have not messed with those yet.
Put something like
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Instead of configuring in xorg.conf, I used hotplugging and an excerpt from a forum post to get the mousepad working correctly. I still have no xorg.conf. I will edit this post with the fdi file I used for the trackpad when I have my s10 with me.
I've tested the webcam, the linux-uvc-svn-all package in the aur works fine for me. The mic on the other hand looks like it needs a newer version of alsa -- http://www.linlap.com/wiki/lenovo+ideapad+s10 reports that .18a worked in ubuntu and the current package available in arch is .18. Alsa has release .19 and I quickly rebuilt the package to see if it would fix my problem but I had no luck. I probably need to rebuild more packages as well.
I have not tested the card reader but I plan on testing that when I get home tonight.
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Is this the Right Forum for Ideapad S10?

Is this the correct forum for the Ideapad S10? If not, just where would be appropriate?
Have been waiting to get a Wind, when I saw the announcement on this beauty. Would like to find out if pre-orders will be available. Searching Lenovo.com shows absolutely nothing on the S10. Here's a link to some info:
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Ideapad S10-3 Webcam Problem with Windows XP

Hi folks,
I own a Ideapad S10-3 shipped with Windows 7 Starter.
Because Windows XP is much faster on this machine, I installed Windows XP Professional SP3.
After Installation I downloaded all S10-3 Windows XP drivers available at the lenovo site for S10-3.
No installations problems so far, the webcam was working and recognized as Lenovo EasyCamera
Vendor ID: 5986 Product ID: 0190 Rev: 1409. Driver Provider is displayed as "Vimicro"
After a few days using the netbook, one day i started windows and the new hardware found wizard started and recognized a new USB Video device and installed the UVC driver from Windows. This "new" device has Vendor ID: 0ac8 and Product ID: 3450 Rev: 0130. The old webcam with the old IDs isnt shown anymore in the device manager. (only if you set var "devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1" and enable "show hidden devices")
When i try to use the webcam the light beside the webcam turns on, but no picture is displayed. No matter which program i try, the webcam isnt working anymore.
Because of the different device ID it isnt possible to install the lenovo webcam driver, but basically the webcam should work with the UVC driver provided by windows. I find it totaly strange that the webcam is showing up suddenly with a different device id.
When windows is running theres an process VM322_STI.exe running, its part of the Webcam driver and gets installed.
This is the second S10-3 Netbook on which i have this problem, i returned the first one because of this problem.
Is someone here, who is also using the S10-3 with XP or has an similar problem ?
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IT's working again... very strange ... the driver on the lenovo site for this webcam seems faulty, i uninstalled it, and after the reboot the old cam with the old device id is back in the device manager ... i now use the uvc driver and NEVER install the lenovo driver again... just because of the driver i returned my first s10-3 .
Also very interersting: After the cam didnt work in Windows XP anymore, i recovered the original Win7Starter from an complete hdd image (which i made before installing win XP) and in Win7 the cam wasn't working too. Because of that i never thought that it was a driver problem, because the driver and windows xp was deleted when i recovered the original win7.
so my recommendation: DO NOT install the lenovo driver, let Windows XP use its own UVC driver.

External monitor resolution of IdeaPad S10-2

Hello,
I am thinking about buying an IdeaPad S10-2 (running XP Home). I wanted to connect the Netbook to my external monitor which runs Full HD (1920x1200) as its native resolution. I could not find any information which resolutions are supported for this netbook. Can anyone help me out?
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Hi and welcome, got with T240 HD 24" screen ,running XP HomeXP up to 1920 x1200 , set external only, with Windows 7 there are some resolutions left , depends on used driver ..
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No Webcam on my Lenovo Ideapad S10 - Please Help

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I own a Lenovo Ideapad S10 with Windows XP.
When I bought the computer, the inbuilt webcam was working perfectly. Then, all of a sudden, the webcam somehow disappeared.
When I press Fn + Esc, it says the Webcam is not installed.
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Ideapad S10-3 Model 0647 bios update failure, recovery possible?

I have downloaded and installed the latest bios version 37 (2acn37ww.exe).
The flashing tool indicated success and has stored a backup of the old bios.
But, after reboot the screen stays black.
In this forum similar problems have been discussed, but none of the presented procedures did help.
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Hi and welcome,,
did you upgrade memory ? If you did .. upgrade ... insert original memory .. try to start your s10-3 machine
..press F2 to access bios, then press F9 and load default settings in order to get machine works properly after new bios update. Lenovo cannot guarantee compatibilty with all memory manufacturers and modules..
...shut down and re-insert mem upgrade ...try to start ...
if you did no memory upgrade ...
call your local service
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