Ideapad Yoga 11s RAM Upgrade Trouble

I bought the computer about a month ago and it has 4GB. I bought an 8GB stick to upgrade and I'm having trouble removing the keyboard. I've watched a few videos regarding how to remove the keyboard and upgrade the RAM and the problem I'm having is that for some reason the corners of the keyboard closest to the monitor aren't popping out. I've been able to pop the keyboard out in the middle, but near the delete and escape keys there is not wiggle room and I don't want to bend anything there. Has anyone else experienced this and does anyone have any helpful tips?

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IdeaPad Yoga 11S SSD upgrade

Hello there.
I have an IdeaPad Yoga 11S, and the OEM 128GB SSD is running out of space.
I believe the OEM SSD is a 1.8-inch drive. So if I were to get a larger SSD, would it have to be 1.8" as well, or could I use a 2.5" drive instead?
I already have a 2.5" 500 GB hybrid drive that might work well, or I might just go buy a new SSD...but the 2.5" drives are cheaper and more widely available than the 1.8" drives.

This seems like a helpful place to begin:
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/IdeaPad-IdeaTab-Slate-Tablets/Lenovo-Yoga-11s-SSD-and-RAM-Upgrade-Great-...

Yoga 11s RAM upgrade

I have the 11s with 4gb of RAM. Is upgrading to 8gb the same process as upgrading the 13 inch model?
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Problem with viewing video upload on Ideapad Yoga 11S ultrabook

Hi all, this may be a very basic question as I am not very technical... I have just today started using a Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 11S. (It is Windows 8 with basic Office for home and students loaded on.
I've been sent a video quick link via Media Silo I need to watch and make notes from. For some reason, I cannot maximise the video so it fills the IdeaPad screen. The bottom half of it is off screen so I cannot ff or rw or use the slide to change position.
Any suggestions most welcome.
Guy

Hi guyjevans,
Welcome to Lenovo Community Forums!
I’m sorry to hear that the online video is not playing in full screen mode in your Yoga 11s Laptop, please ensure that the display driver is installed and the browser is installed with Adobe Flash Player so that the online video feature can be used, below is the link to download the display drivers if it is not installed and also the link to download the adobe flash player for the computer.
Display Driver for Windows 8 (64-bit)
Adobe flash player download
Hope this helps!!!
Do post us back if the issue persists.
Best Regards
Shiva Kumar
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Ideapad yoga 11s WITHOUT a pen - can I get it to work with a pen?

Got the ideapad yoga 11s for a surprise gift on christmas. And just found out there is also a version of the ideapad yoga with a stylus/wacom pen. That would have made this apparatus just perfect for me. So my 3 questions quite simply are:
1. Can anyone tell me if this version can be "modified" to work in the same way (e.g. pressure sensitivity) if I can acquire the pen / a pen separately?
2. Can a pen indeed be acquired separately?
3. And what kind of pens would work?
Please help And thank you to anyone who can tell me the answers!
Edit: Suppose I need a digitizer. I presume this model does not have it? I don't even know what that is physically - so is it something I CAN accuire for this machine?

Only digitizer pens and digitizer displays have pressure sensitivity. If you want this, take a look at the ThinkPad Yoga for your next purchase.
You need a capacitive stylus pen, like the Wacom Bamboo Stylus
This is a relatively good article worth reading: http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/best-digital-pens-writing-apps-and-stylus-tablets/
Jonas
Microsoft MVP: Windows Consumer Expert
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Lenova ideapad yoga 11s

i probably wont be able to explain this properly but i will try my best else i will be going to contact lenova via hte phone.
For some reason i cannot launch anything on my lenova ideapad yoga 11 s.
for instance i click on the internet explorer icon in my little panel or the camera or the calendar or the photo's icon and they do not actually open, what happens is that they appear in the bottom task bar as if they are open but they arent opened i cannot see or access them. To open internet explorer i have to go to the search field on the computer and click on it here once it appears and then it opens.
does anyone know what the problem is with the computer and why it has suddenly started doing this.
I am not sure where to post this query on the lenova forum so if its the wrong section could you let me know and i will re-post in the correct forum.
Thanks in advance.
Moderator note: moved it for you.

Just for your information...I recently returned the yoga 2 pro to Best Buy and bought a yoga 11s instead. I have it upgraded to windows 8.1 without having any problem. All you have to do is to wait until the system automatically download and install the windows updates. And after rebooting the computer, go to Windows Store, the free upgrade to windows 8.1 will be available for you to download. While waiting for windows 8.1 to be downloaded and installed you can just go to Lenovo support website to find and download all the updated drivers for yoga 11s, which are compatible with windows 8.1. Then when the system automatically finishes the upgrade to windows 8.1, just simply updated the drivers one by one. So yeah, in my case, I did not have any problem or error when upgrading to windows 8.1
Hope this helps.

Just bought the Lenova IdeaPad yoga 11s Some tips, please .....

Okay, after a lot of faffing about, I finally decided on the 11s (i3 processor, 128GB hard drive, 4GB RAM, Windows 8). I wanted something that was fairly cheap (less than £500) portable, much lighter than my current laptop and good enough for basic use. This fits the bill. It should be with me tomorrow morning.
I have two main jobs on my list when I get it before starting to use it for what I bought it for. 1) Update to Windows 8.1 and 2) Remove all bloatware.
1) From experience, is the upgrade from Windows 8 to 8.1 going to cause me grief? What steps should I take to make this as painless a process as possible, please? What should I look out for?
2) What bloatware can I happily remove? I understand Lenova ae one of the worst companies for shipping their products with bloatware but I really don't want anything on it that doesn't need to be on it.
Any other top tips from 11S owners?
Thanks for your help.

Just for your information...I recently returned the yoga 2 pro to Best Buy and bought a yoga 11s instead. I have it upgraded to windows 8.1 without having any problem. All you have to do is to wait until the system automatically download and install the windows updates. And after rebooting the computer, go to Windows Store, the free upgrade to windows 8.1 will be available for you to download. While waiting for windows 8.1 to be downloaded and installed you can just go to Lenovo support website to find and download all the updated drivers for yoga 11s, which are compatible with windows 8.1. Then when the system automatically finishes the upgrade to windows 8.1, just simply updated the drivers one by one. So yeah, in my case, I did not have any problem or error when upgrading to windows 8.1
Hope this helps.

Ideapad Z570 potential RAM upgrade or processor - help!

Hi all, I have a Lenovo Z570 with a i7-26700QM @2.2 GHZ, 8GB RAM and a Nvidia GeForce GT540M. I've started playing some games such as Dayz running on lowish settings. Obviously, these are big RAM users, so I;ve been looking into the possibility of upgrading the RAM to 16GB which according to these forums has been done despite the fact maximum ram is meant to be 8GB.
I was wondering if it's worth me upgrading the RAM or if it might be better for me to upgrade the processor/graphics. Any opinions would be greatly appreciated. Also, if RAM is the preferential choice, could anyone point me in the direction of which ones to buy? The last few threads have been slightly out dated.
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You're very welcome, Chris.
It is like that for all of the dc5xxx and dc7xxx business desktops.
HP made a change to that when the 8000 Elite business desktops came out.
You can put any size memory you want in each slot, and you won't get any errors, but the PC's memory will run in something called 'Flex Mode" which basically means DDR mode is disabled.
The dc5xxx and dc7xxx models just give you the 5 beeps and won't go any further until the memory is properly configured.
In order to run in DDR mode, you need matching capacities of memory in slots 1 and 3, and 2 and 4 for all HP business desktops.
Best Regards,
Paul

On first startup IdeaPad Yoga 11S screen goes black

When ever I startup the laptop the screen goes black and then I have to do a hard reset to turn it on again. Is there any solution? It's new and I don't want to ruin it.

Hi Aftab1alam,
Do you get anything displayed on screen when it tries to boot up?
I had the following:
1. Black screen - the outcome of this was they had to repllace the motherboard so it needed to be sent back to Novo (dpd will pick up and it gets sent to Germany - usually back within a week)
2. The screen kept spinning with the Lenovo initial startup - it remained like that so it was essentially stuck. I played around with it a bit and found the following:
- The keyboard was not working so I needed to plug in an external usb keyboard
- Once I was able to use keys I could get to the "Novo menu" - which is Novo's equivalent/layer on top of the the DOS BIOS.
- I fiddled about with that and called Novo tech support who talked me through a number of things to try. None worked for me but worth you calling them and trying these.
- Eventiually they arranges for it to be sent back.
Incidentally the 2nd replacement got the same issue - I think it was after it did a windows update to itself so I ended up ringing them back. In the end I took the 3rd broken machine back to PCWorld (Novo will give you a replacement code to give the vendor) and they gave me a replacement in the shop. This one has been working fine since then (other than a few minor issues).
FYI re your question - DOS BIOS is the underlying hardware config before windows boots up - it should be able to tell you if there are hardware issues. Unfortunately Lenovo replace this with their own bios layer - which doesn't really help or show you anything.
I hope this is helpful!
Sarah

Lenovo Yoga 11s SSD and RAM Upgrade - Great Results

Picked up a Lenovo Yoga 11s from Best Buy. I chose Best Buy for price, color, and processor. They had a slightly better deal than Lenovo.com. The clementine color looks great. Quality is great. I'm very happy with the purchase. It has the i5 processor, 4GB RAM, 128GB SSD.
I upgraded the SSD and RAM and found the upgrade relatively easy. Here is a basic step by step and results. (note the parts I chose increased the cost by close to $400. I chose these parts based on quality, performance, and power usage. There are cheaper alternatives, but I wanted an upgrade and money was not my concern.)
Upgraded Parts
RAM - Patriot Memory 8GB PC3-12800 1600MHZ CL11 1.35V - Purchased at Newegg, but could have saved a couple dollars on Amazon.
I chose this part based on previous experience with Patriot and the low voltage RAM. A lot of the RAM is higher voltage and I wanted to make sure I reduced heat and power usage. When you look for 1.35V RAM, there are not a lot of options...
MSata SSD Drive - Intel SSD 525 Series 240GB Drive
Intel SSD Page
I purchased through Newegg
I chose the Intel drive based on previous experience with Intel. They cost more, but I've found their performance to be good and reliability good. There is also a good review on this drive on Tomshardware Tomshardware Intel 525 Review. Toms review shows top performing drive and low power. I also looked at many other manufacturers and Intel had the lower power consumption. This means less heat and longer battery life.
Cloning Software
Intel provides a free cloning software from Acronis
My Digital SSD MSata external case
I purchased through Newegg.
Nice quality device. I used this to help in cloning the OEM SSD to the new Intel drive.
T5 Torx Screw Driver
I purchased this from Home Depot T5 Torx Home Depot
I read all the reviews, posts and issues around cloning the Win8 SSD drives. Many people have/had issues. I was prepared for problems. Another reason I chose Intel, as they have migration software that I felt would be top notch.
You need to have the Hardware Manual handy. I read how to remove keyboard and top cover. This is required to upgrade RAM and SSD. It was very easy. Take your time. Note, this is very different than the Yoga 13 youtube video for part removal. I think it's easier. Here is the link to download manual Yoga 11s Hardware Manual.
How to clone your SSD
I expect if you're doing this project you can learn how to use the Intel software for cloning. Read the web, watch their youtube video. Read the manual...
Remove your factory SSD and insert new Intel SSD (note, you must insert Intel drive in notebook for cloning. Do not try and clone on the USB external drive. Intel software will not detect drive properly). Create a bootable version of the Intel software on a USB drive. Install your factory OEM SSD in the external MSata SSD drive. Go to BIOS and set boot to support legacy, no fast boot, boot to USB.
Boot to the Intel Acronis app on the USB drive. Then connect your OEM SSD via second USB port.
Then follow the wizard on Intel's software. Cloning process took less than 5 minutes.
Unplug your USB devices, go to BIOS and set all all your boot settings back to factory UEFI, fast boot etc.
The PC booted to windows second try. The first time it said it has issues and went through a process to repair. It then said it failed. I rebooted again and it went straight to windows. Did all my windows updates and everything is fine.
Performance
Windows Performance Improvement
Memory - Factory score was 5.9 - Patriot Memory is 8.2 *** Nice Improvement
Hard Drive - Factory score was 6.2 - Intel 525 Drive is 8.2 *** Nice Improvement
This pc is crazy fast booting and shutting down. It boots in 7 seconds. Not sure it's really faster than OEM, but I've never seen a pc boot this fast.
Over all performance is fast. I installed Office 2010 pro from a USB drive in under 5 minutes. Web browsing is crazy fast. I'm super impressed with the speed of this pc. Much faster than I expected.
Size, Shape, Weight, color is great. Performance is great. Happy with upgrades and quality of parts. May be my best notebook purchase to date. I don't have any battery life numbers to report yet. Everything is new and I haven't really spent much time off the charger.
Issues I've experienced during this upgrade of parts
I first tried to clone the SSD drive by putting the Intel drive in the USB enclosure first. The intel software would not work as the PC detects the external SSD drive as a SCSI drive and Intel cloning software could not identify the drive as an Intel Sata drive. I called Intel and they had no advice or help. I also tried a few other cloning softwares that ultimately did not work. As a last resort I switched the drives and everything worked great. Lesson learned, swap the drives first and use Intel software to clone.
Factory restore - doesn't work. Not sure why the factory restore is not working on my new Intel drive. Windows works great! All the partitions are there. I suspect I messed up the OEM restore portion of the drive. At one point I thought I had booted to the Intel drive, and tried the restore (I had about 7 failed cloning tries before the final one worked as I outlined above). It went through the restore process and then failed. However, what I later found was that I had actually booted to the OEM drive in the external USB case and I may have corrupted the restore functionality.
I contacted Lenovo Support and explained I could not restore using the 1 key restore. They walked me through some basic troubleshooting and then opted to mail me factory restore disk. I have the disk and will keep them available for when/if I ever need to restore.
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I upgraded from the Yoga 13 to the 11S and am happy to report that the machines are so identical that apparently you can just yank the SSD from one and drop it in the other. I had upgraded my 13" to 240gB SSD + 8gB RAM and simply plopped the two components into the 11S and after about 30 seconds of Windows alerting me that it was 'setting up devices' the machine booted normally and has been working perfectly since!

Can't Upgrade Lenovo Yoga 11s mSATA SSD

I recently purchased a refurbished Lenovo Yoga 11s from Tiger Direct along with an 8 GB RAM upgrade and a 480 GB Crucial mSATA SSD. The RAM replacement was easy. However, I have tried for three weeks to clone, reinstall, or recover my OS installation to the new SSD, and everything has failed. I’ve done extensive research on this forum and others but can’t find a solution.
The 11s came with Windows 8 on a 128 GB mSATA SSD. I updated it to 8.1 and installed a bunch of my own apps before attempting the clone. The 480 GB Crucial SSD definitely works. I have an external USB enclosure and when it’s inserted it reads just fine on multiple machines. I disabled Fast Boot and Secure Boot and have experimented with both Legacy and UEFI boot modes.
Here’s what I’ve tried:
1. Cloning via Easeus Todo Backup directly through Windows 8. The clone appeared to be successful but the new drive wouldn’t boot. I tried boot repair using both a Lenovo and a standard Windows Recovery USB that I made before beginning all of this. In each case Startup Repair says it can’t find the required partition. Also, the BIOS doesn’t recognize the new SSD when I have a Recovery USB inserted.
2. Cloning by booting directly to a Clonezilla Live USB. Again, the clone appeared successful but after swapping the SSDs the new one wouldn’t boot, and both Recovery USBs wouldn’t work.
3. Cloning AGAIN by booting directly to Clonezilla Live USB, this time with the new SSD attached to the mobo and the original in the USB enclosure. In this attempt, Clonezilla only recognized the 128 GB SSD and didn’t recognize the 480 attached to the mobo. (Although I don't think I'd partitioned the new SSD in this attempt, so maybe that would change things?)
4. Cloning via Paragon’s “Migrate OS”. I had high hopes for this because others have reported good results. Again, the clone appears successful but after swapping it won’t boot. And I did check the “create UEFI boot” option on Paragon.
5. In desperation, I “borrowed” a copy of Windows 8 on a USB to see if I could do a fresh installation, since apparently you can’t just easily reinstall Win8 on an OEM machine. I’m at the point where I’d pay for a Win8 license just to have my own copy and avoid this OEM nonsense—but I want to be sure it would work on this SSD first. However, the copy I was using won’t install because it doesn’t recognize the new SSD. If I put the BIOS into Legacy Boot mode, it will recognize the Win8 USB but not the new mSATA drive. If I put it into UEFI it recognizes the mSATA drive but won’t recognize the USB.
I’m at my wit’s end here. Clearly other people have successfully upgraded their 11s machines (like this guy: http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Idea-Windows-based-Tablets-and/Lenovo-Yoga-11s-SSD-and-RAM-Upgrade-Great-Results/td-p/1195545) Maybe the 11s motherboard won’t accept a 480 GB SSD? Or maybe it’s just strangely incompatible with this particular model? (This is what I’m using: http://www.crucial.com/store/partspecs.aspx?imodule=CT480M500SSD3) Is there something else painfully obvious I’m missing?
Please help! I love this little machine but if I can’t get the SSD upgraded it’s going to find another home.
-wm
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That's EXACTLY what it is. I originally bought an ivy bridge 11s and I went ahead and tried the new drive in it and it worked just fine. I have also been posting in another forum...here's my last post: I think I figured it out... I have another Yoga 11s here beside me, the Ivy Bridge version; the bios in that machine sees the ssd just fine. The difference is the bios versions. The one that won't see it is 8FCN19WW(V1.00)-the haswell 11s. The one that WILL see it is 77CN19WW(V1.05). So now I'm trying to fig out how to get that V1.00 bios updated to V1.05. That's the only thing I can think of to do. Keep you posted... So, I guess I have to choose between the haswell processor or larger ssd. I can always just switch the gray covers for the orange cause I'm liking the orange WAY better. TBH, I'm not really seeing a big diff between the ivy bridge and haswell anyway... I only got about 4.5 hrs battery life, which is what I got with the IB. There was also supposed to be a better wireless card but the reception and speed is the same as well. I may just end up keeping the Ivy Bridge because of the better bios. There is absolutely no way to update the bios in either of these machines so we're basically just stuck with what we get. If you DO like the 11s as much as I do, you can always find an Ivy Bridge model and is should work just fine for you. The Micro Center here in town is selling IB refurbs for $499. Probably the same price online. Write more later...

Yoga 11S upgrade to Windows 8.1 issue

My YOGA 11 S came with Windows 8.0. I upgraded to Windows 8.0 Pro W - Media Center without an issue a few weeks ago. Today I have twice attempted to install the WIN 8.1 Upgrade from the Store. Both attempts failed and rolled it back to WIN 8 pro. It's a stock machine, no mods at all. Please let me know if any others are experiencing issues.
Both times the error info were reportedly sent to MS.
Thank You
Paul
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Found this link for a conexant driver for another Lenovo device:
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS037884
Downloaded and installed it on my yoga 11s, now with 8.1 pro. After download and install, a restart was required. After that, the conexant HD audio and Dolby Digital Plus Home theater returned to my list of programs. Windows Media player worked with video and audio. Flash player worked using WatchESPN.com. Seems to have fixed one of my 2 errors.

IdeaPad Yoga Windows 8.1 OnScreen keyboard does not stay open

hi
I just bought a new ideapad yoga and upgraded from windows 8 to windows 8.1. Unfortunately, I can't open the onscreen keyboard. After it opens, it immediately closes itself. This problem has also been described here, but wasn't solved:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-tms/ideapad-yoga-13-virtual-keyboard-does...
Is this a known issue? Does this have anything todo with drivers? - What can I do about it?
Thank you!

Anyone got some tips? How can I contact the Lenovo support otherwise?
I am thinking of selling my Lenovo and buying another (definitely non-Lenovo) device. They always have troubles with their drivers (and have poor support)!! Something like that never happened to my Dell notebooks.
Thanks.

Yoga 11S WiFi issues

Hi all,
As with many I am experiencing severe Wifi issues with new Yoga 11s. I will try to explain in detail in the hope that someone who better understands how wifi really works might be able to help diagnose.
I have a Talktalk badged Huawei HG533 router. This delivers c.15Mbs reliably all around my house (2xTVs, computers up and downstairs, 2xphones). Using Speedtest.net to capture speeds.
With the Yoga, if I sit right next to the router (as I am now), I get 15Mbs. In other parts of the house I get just 0.5Mb, including rooms where other devices are measured at 15. I have updated drivers and upgraded to W8.1 though I experienced exactly the same problem before the upgrade.
I have tested every room and it seems that it will either work at very close to the maximum (in a few rooms) or drops off catastrophically to 0.5mb or less. There is no in between. I never lose connection altogether. There seems no correalation between the level of signal displayed (4 or 5 bars) and the speed.The 'good' rooms are separated by fewer walls.
I have also observed that on occasion having tested in a good room and then moving to one of the bad rooms it initially shows good performance, before seemingly recognising where it is and throttling back to unusable.
It is as though once it gets to a certain distance/separation/signal strength it somehow 'jams' the signal.
I really neeed to find a solution to this as 1. my office is one of the bad rooms and 2. I am often in hotels, airports etc and need reliable internet even in poor signal areas. Any help much appreciated.

Hey everyone, I just registered here and I couldn't find a solution. Apologies if this has been covered already.
I received the Yoga 11s i5 as part of an internship and after keeping the package under wraps for a month or two, I decided to give it a go and start using it instead of my Microsoft Surface. Everything works smooth and I love it to bits - except for the WiFi.
I was able to connect a few times, but for the most part it just doesn't work. The WiFi icon in the bottom right corner displays the adapter icon with a little red x, and the Windows troubleshooter is unable to find a solution. I'm really not sure what the problem is because, so far, my connectivity problem is entirely random - several times, I was able to connect and use the WiFi regularly only to be greeted with the same problem next time I start using the computer. The troubleshooter once displayed an error message amongst the lines of "The network adapter is experiencing hardware/software difficulties".
I don't know if it is worth mentioning that I live on a college campus with a dodgy wifi connection, but every other device I ever used is working properly. Any suggestions? Only thing I did try so far is refreshing the system and reinstalling Windows but, to no avail.
Thanks in advance!

Cannot install Windows 8.1 Update on Lenovo Yoga 11s

Hi guys,
Hope someone will be able to help me out from this never ending issue.
I have been trying to update my Yoga 11s to Windows 8.1 for the last 2 weeks, but it just doesn't work. It kees failing when it gets to "Applying Settings" and then reboots twice and eventually rolls back to the Windows 8 installed. I have tried everything I've read on the internet from disabling my BT to installing all the latest drivers to even installing from a clean boot of Windows 8, but NOTHING works.
Has anyone successfully made this upgrade? Any assisstance will be highly appreciated.
BTW my laptop is installed with Windows 8 Single Language and running BIOS version 77CN20WW (v1.06)
Thanks

Thank you for your input. I must say that I did have 8.1 installed and used it for about a month with no issues. Then recently when I was installing an update for graphics I got the black screen as described. I have since then not been able to install 8.1. I will continue to look for a solution. Thanks for your reply

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