Lenovo G480 (20149) B950 upgrade to Core i3

Did anyone tried upgrading their Intel Pentium B950 processor to Core i3 for Lenovo G480? Is it possible?
Thank you!

hi mein,
Welcome to Lenovo Community Forums!
The G480 with CPU B950 supports Socket:
Sockets Supported
PGA988
this are the compatible 13 for this socket crossreferenced with supported by your system
11 Intel I3-3110M 2.3G L1 3M 2cPGA Processor Lenovo Part number 102500303
11 Intel I3-2370M 2.4G J1 3M 2cPGA Processor Lenovo Part number 102500228
Hope this helps
Cheers!
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Hello, I wanted to ask something: can I upgrade my CPU on my lenovo G480? And in case of a positive answer, which CPU's are compatible with it? Also, I bought an 8gb RAM, and installed it on my notebook, and it says that I have 12 GB of ram, but I read somewhere else that I can only have 8 GB of ram on my notebook... this means that what the system says is a lie and thus I still can only use 4gb of ram of the 12 that it shows? Thanks in advance.

Hi Snipercat94,
Welcome to Lenovo Community!
As per the query we understood that you are looking for CPU & memory up-gradation for your Lenovo G480.
Yes, you can up-grade the processor and the list is available in Hardware Maintenance Manual you can check it on page 101.
It is good to know that G480 is detecting 12 GB of RAM, and as per the OS it is showing 4 GB RAM that means you system is having 32bit Operating System, suggest you to install 64bit Operating System.
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Hemanth Kumar
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Lenovo G480 webcam not working

hello, im having trouble with my notebook, after upgrading it to windows 8.1 64bit, i can't use my webcam, and there is no imaging device under the device manager, i tried to installing the driver Camera Driver (Bison, Liteon, Chicony) from support.lenovo.com/us/en/products/laptops-and-netbooks/lenovo-g-series-laptops/lenovo-g480-notebook, there are no driver for OS windows 8.1, so i tried with the OS windows 8 version, in the middle of installation, after extracting package, and hitting install button, nothing happen, i've waiting for couple of minute, there are no signs that this process is start, or done. and try to restart it, hope the drivers is installed, but still no change

Have you tried enabling your webcam through Pressing the FN key on the keyboard and then the Esc key?
FN+Esc while you are looking at your camera... This will enable the camera so that it will work.

HELP!!! on Lenovo G480 Model Name: 20156

Hi Good day!
Newbie here.
I just bought my new laptop Lenovo G480 with pre-installed operating system of Windows 7 starter.
Now, I upgrade my windows 7 starter to windows 7 home premium and not doing the clean install.
What happen is i use the windows upgrade anytime, copy the product key that i saw in the web and paste it to the upgrade anytime. The product key that i copied failed. So what I did is, I restart it, and when it boot up the windows is already upgrading to windows 7 home premium. After the setup, I copied the activation key for the product key that I copied and windows upgrade anytime accepted it. Now my windows 7 home premium says is it is activated and genuine.
Take note that I disabled the automatic update, as I'm afraid that microsoft might detect that my windows is not genuine.
Before i did the upgrade, i made a backup system with the use of onekey rescue system and save the backup to my built-in hard disk drive.
Now that I'm in win7 home premium, if I press the onekey rescue system button, will I get back to my previous os which is win7 starter without activating it? because I also don't have activation key for it, as i bought the laptop with pre-installed os.
Can you guys please advise me what to do?
I am really scared right now, I know I'm stupid and I don't want to waste my money because of what I've done.
Reply will be truly appreciated.
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I'm sorry I used the one key recovery to backup my system and saved it to my built-in hard disk drive.

Any Advice to Fix/Enchance Lenovo G480 Webcam Video Quality?

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Intel B960M, I can't find my Lenovo type on website, so I just assume everything is just the same like other G480 type.
Just purchased recently, it cames with 2GB RAM only, at first very slow
After upgrading to 8GB everything is great.
But there still a problem with Webcam though, and because of that I had to purchase a webcam for video chat.
for comparison
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Yes I know, I'm not expecting it's going to be good like C170 that, but at least I do expect the image viewable, and it's not, is that normal?
also about Mic built-in, no one can hear what I'm saying because lot's of noise/echo, and I have to disable it and use Mic from C170.
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hi senthil_naga,
In addition to Catt's suggestion, have you tried adjusting the brightness/contrast setting of your camera under Skype?
See this guide in reference:
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hi madnhate,
Welcome to Lenovo Community Forums!
According to your system Specs Sheet your system can support Maximum of 8GB (2x4GB)
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Web-Cam does not work on Lenovo G480, PLEAS HELP!!

Hello,
I have a Lenovo G480 (20165), and my built-in Web-Cam is not working.
When I enable it by pressing Fn+Esc the little light by the Web-Cam turns on, then shuts off after a second.
So I downloaded the Lenovo Easy Capture, and when I open the software, I get a message saying "Failed To Open Camera".
And when I turn on my laptop, the little light comes on for a short moment, then the light shuts off.
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Kernel panic since upgrade to core. Unable to mount root fs on

kernel panic : not syncing; VFS; Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (0,0)
I get that error since I upgraded archlinux to the latest version. The last time I upgraded before that was while the repos was still named current. Since I upgraded to core that happened.
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Hello All,
I have two hard drives installed in my pc, one is ATA and the other one is a SATA.
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Linux Install (Opensuse 12.2) damage Bios in Lenovo G480

Hello,
Actually I bought the Lenovo G480. Once Opensuse 12.2 was Installed, for some reason i cant enter to the Bios with F2... if I try with F12 show a lot of times "opensuse" and at last the Ethernet, HD and CD for boot.
I cant find the bios for this model,
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Hi
Welcome To Lenovo Community
We are really sorry to hear about the issue you are facing,
You'll want to run these commands in the command prompt provided on the install disc:
bootrec.exe /fixmbr
bootrec.exe /rebuildbcd
After that check
Do give this a try and let us know
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Lenovo G480 LCD screen dark spot problem

HI,
my Lenovo G480 LCD screen have dark spot problem can I send it to sevice centre to warranty?

Hi willson,
Welcome and Thanks for posting in the Lenovo Community,
Am sorry to hear about the issue that you’re facing,
Kindly check the below contact numbers for the service support:
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Due the my Matlab2012a failure to start, Mathworks advises to have a new version of the Core Services Application Configuration Data. They stated that a new version, a few hours after Yosemite installation would have been autoinstalled (Core Services Application Configuration Data 10.10", Version 10.39 or later!). I have setted the OS X system autodownload and installation, but after all these day my version is 1.025 and I do not see any 10.10 or 10.9 reference. The many Download trials by AppStore are completely unsuccessful at this moment.

Hi friends.
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Dear All,
Greetings
Some days ago my laptop's screen got a bit darker on right side.
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hi hm_khawaja,
Welcome to the Lenovo Forums.
If you boot into the BIOS (F2) and you still see that one side of the LCD is darker than usual then your conclusion about the LCD being the problem is correct as the backlight on that corner is most likely malfunctioning.
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Item:
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