Lenovo Wifi Replacement

I recently got my T500 with a very poor signal wifi, Thinkpad BGN, a Realtek chipset. I would like to replace my Wifi card with either the Intel Wifi Link 5100 or 5300. However, I read somewhere that Lenovo specfically "whitelist" their wifi cards to only work with their laptops. I could not find any of the Intel wifi, moreover any wifi cards on the lenovo site. So, I went to hunt around in Amazon and found several sellers.
Plus would anyone tell me what sort of card I require, since there is a difference between mini cards and the full sized card, though I do not know which one my laptop support. Here are the specs for my laptop:
http://privatepaste.com/8b0537bce0
I would like to have confirmation which one of these specific cards as posted below will work on my laptop (or the one you recommend to have):
http://www.amazon.com/Intel-533ANMMW...pr_product_top
http://www.amazon.com/Intel-WiFi-Lin...2098368&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Intel-WiFi-Lin...2098368&sr=1-2
http://www.amazon.com/Intel-WiFi-Lin...2098501&sr=1-1

would anyone confirm that this would work:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Intel-Wifi-5300-Wireless-Card-4-IBM-T400-R400-T500-W500_W0QQitemZ320461149719QQc...

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I find it interesting that some users report their wifi as being perfect. I would ask anyone who claims this to connect it along with another laptop to the same network and move more than 15 ft from the router and try to copy some files across the network. Compare the two and see the difference. If you already have less than a 20Mbps internet connection and don’t use your wireless network for anything other than internet access quite close to the router then you’ll probably not have the same problem as much.
Solution: There is none. Lenovo will replace the wifi card for another one under the warranty but it won’t fix the problem and the flawed design. For a proper solution to this problem then read at the bottom of this post regarding replacement/refund options that Lenovo are offering in this situation. Fiddling with wifi settings and routers is not a solution when every other computer (including Lenovo ones) works perfectly on that network.
The touchscreen cuts out and requires a reset to start working again. During operation the touchscreen simply stops responding. A full reset is required to make it work again. The fact that a reset fixes it instantly shows to me that this isn’t a hardware fault. It is a further example of Lenovo’s flawed design and also perhaps a software issue. The touchscreen is also attached to the internal USB hub, whether this is related to the wifi problem above I am unsure. This is completely unacceptable on a touch based device and is not fit for purpose.
Solution: There is none. Lenovo will replace the touchscreen under the warranty but it won’t fix the problem and the flawed design. For a proper solution to this problem then read at the bottom of this post regarding replacement/refund options that Lenovo are offering in this situation.
The autorotate stops responding. Again as a tablet device the autorotate is an important feature. Since coming back from repair with Lenovo it has started occasionally not responding. I was told to flip the machine over, open and close and press the ‘autorotate on/off’ button a few times as a solution. This is not an acceptable solution on an expensive machine and is not fit for purpose on a tablet based machine.
Solution: Lenovo recommend pressing the button a few times and opening and closing the lid. Restarting also might help. This is not a solution.
The keyboard is extremely low quality, bounces and is uncomfortable to use over an extended period. Lenovo have always been well known for producing great quality keyboards. However the cheap one they decided to put on the Yoga is really not fit for purpose. It is a simple panel keyboard that is secured in place using double sided sticky tape. Seriously, a taped down keyboard on a premium priced computer! It started to come up in one corner and pivots around several of the keys in the upper right corner. I added more double sided sticky tape under it to better secure it (as recommended on Lenovo’s customer support forums), this worked for a short while to hold it down better. The keyboard was replaced by lenovo as part of the repairs. It is still bouncy though, low quality and uncomfortable to type on for extended periods.
Solution: Lenovo will replace the keyboard under warranty. But the new one is still stuck down with double sided sticky tape.
The touchpad sticks and occasionally stops working. As the touchpad is the same as others used in competing products I can only assume this is a driver related issue. However, as the Yoga has been released for 6 months now it should have been addressed with a driver update by now. Lenovo don’t seem to care about this. They will replace it under warranty, but it won’t fix anything.
Solution: Lenovo will replace the touchpad under warranty. The new one will still be the same.
The paint peels off the corners of the device’s metal top and bottom. Due to the soft touch paint finish applied to the metal top and bottom of the machine then it rubs of in high usage areas such as the hinge and the corners. The aesthetics of a premium priced computer are actually important and it should not happen. This appears to be a flaw in the design of the machine again and makes it unfit for purpose.
Solution: Lenovo will try to tell you that it is not covered by the warranty and that you did it yourself. After a lot of pushing they will replace both the top and bottom panels under the warranty.
Lenovo, particularly their service centre team, are very unresponsive to questions about these issues. They will claim on first ask that they have no knowledge of any of these issues. Then they will try to blame the user and how they use the machine. After further pushing they actually will start to do something.
Options available to customers. These have all been offered to me by Lenovo over the last few weeks.
Repair: Lenovo will take in your machine for repair and replace every single component (as they did with mine). They refuse to replace the machine initially as the terms of the warranty state ‘repair’. This will not fix the issues as it is due to flawed design and cheap internal components. I have had mine taken in now 4 times, of which they kept it for a week twice now.
Sell it privately with free product compensation: This was a very strange offer and one I felt a little uncomfortable about. Lenovo offered that if I chose to sell the machine privately (as they have so many problems) then they would give me a free Thinkpad Tablet 2 as compensation for the loss of value. I thought about this but turned them down, it seemed a little too dodgy to me.
Replacement with another Yoga: Lenovo offered me a replacement Yoga machine. They claimed a couple of weeks ago that a new model was arriving with a revised wifi design and CPU. Unfortunately when these arrived in stock (these are the ones reported a few posts back) they found they still have the same Realtek wifi card and flawed antenna design. So they quickly told me they didn’t want to do this anymore and offered new options. I would have been happy with the option if they had fixed the issues in the new one.
Replacement with a Lenovo X1 Carbon Touch at no extra cost: I have been offered a replacement for my Yoga with an X1 Carbon Touch. It is the only other machine in Lenovo’s product lineup that has an equivalent specs list. I said that this was a perfectly acceptable solution but they have since pushed me into the final option, refund.
Refund: Lenovo have offered me a full refund for the machine even though it was bought from a retail shop. In Hong Kong we are not lucky enough to have 30 day returns and things like that so shops don’t want to be involved after 7 days. Lenovo have said that they will issue a full refund to me. This was the option they chose in the end of the three acceptable ones. However they are now kicking their heels on it and have told me it will be another 3 weeks before they can think about doing it.
Although reading these may seem like Lenovo have attempted to do their best. Unfortunately that couldn’t be further from the truth. This has taken nearly 10 weeks of my time so far. Lenovo have attempted at every step of the way to tell me it is not covered by warranty or that the issue does not exist (or is my own fault). I have had to create videos showing the problems, document and take photos of everything. They have hardly ever initiated a conversation about this and I have had to make every single call. It reached the point where I had to threaten legal action before they finally offered some proper solutions.
My recommendation for anyone thinking of buying a Yoga 13 is to think again. Although some people seem happy with theirs, I can’t see that any of the machines can really be perfect with so many flaws. The price is the same as other premium machines from Apple, Sony, Asus and Samsung. Buy one of these and you will be much happier.
For those that already bought one and has problems then it is a little bleak without some arguing. Lenovo are ignoring the problems posted here on the forums and trying to tell customers that ‘no one else is having that problem’. It took a lot of online attention before they accepted the flawed design with the U310 and U410 models. My hope is that they do take notice of their customers in this case but I am very doubtful that they will as it would cost them money (they are after all a business so money comes first over customers). If anyone would like to follow up with Lenovo and would like to reference my case when seeking the resolution options then I will post my customer service reference numbers when I get back to the office on Monday. I am based in Hong Kong but Lenovo warranties on the Yoga are international so I feel options should be the same for all customers.
Maybe my expectations are too high, I just expected a computer that costs more than $1000 to work properly out of the box.
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A little frustrated at this point I am asked by NewEgg to do another RMA but since I'm running short on time I decide to buy another laptop so I didn't have to wait a week and just get credit for the bad one. Which I do and finally I get a fully functional e530c with Windows 7 Pro on it. I'm really happy about this, as I didn't want to ditch Lenovo at that point and it seemed everything was finally working as advertised.
So I load the laptop with our standard company programs, get it joined to the domain, and get it to the new employee. All is well...for a short while.
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So last Thursday I spent about a total of 6 hours on the phone with support. They were friendly, but I felt like they weren't really doing anything that was meaningful in finding the issue (run a memory test and call back, run a hard drive test, and call back, etc). All tests passed, I even went to do a fresh Windows 7 installation after formatting the drive to verify it wasn't a driver issue (and saw the problem on the Windows 7 install screen which the support person agreed must be due to hardware). They finally said they would ship me a box to send the laptop back to them, the box would have a form for me to fill out detailing the issues and it would get the laptop back to Lenovo overnight.
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So to make long story short: Lenovo, your support sucks. I was a loyal customer with you for a long time, but I'm never purchasing anything from you again. I will continue to sit here and try to get this laptop working even if it means I have to send it back to you 10 times (forcing you to pay for overnight shipping to and from each time). But I already replaced the laptop with an HP so that my user isn't affected. I don't know if the business I have done with you isn't big enough to put me on your list of people you give a crap about but even if I had only ever purchased on thing from you I would have expected better. By far the worst support experience I've ever had, and I've dealt with Dell, HP, and even Acer which all had better support than you did.

So just to give an update on this thread.
It has been absolute hell getting Lenovo to replace the laptop but they finally did it. And they did it from what they call their "entitlement department". What kind of insulting name is that?
Anyway, after the above post I got the run around for about another month. After the second return Lenovo suggested I take the laptop in to a certified repair center they had here in town. The lady there was absolutely awesome, she saw the issue, saw what I was talking about, but couldn't help me because she couldn't identify with certainty what was causing the problem and since she couldn't do that Lenovo would not authorize any parts to be sent to her (yes, seriously).
Once I finally got transferred to the entitlement department the first lady was nice, made sure I got in touch with a support person that would document my issue properly and escalate it. After this I sent the laptop back only to get it back again with the same issue.
So I called back, got the run around from a different person in entitlement. She told me to call sales. When I asked her why I would call sales when I didn't buy the laptop from Lenovo she had no good answer but insisted I do it. So I called sales and they laughed as to why they directed me to sales. So I called back entitlement and talked to a very helpful lady named Rosa. She finally did what she could do to get this resolved for me, which was escalate it to a supervisor (a process that would take 48 hours).
The supervisor, Daryl, was also great. He didn't give me any kind of run around just asked for a receipt. Once I provided that he shipped me a brand new laptop (with better specs since they no longer made the 530c) and I had it within 2 days. I will be testing and setting up the laptop this weekend but from initial testing I did in the limited time I had the laptop seems to run great.
So my lesson from this is that Lenovo really needs to get their **bleep** together. They do have people there that care and are willing to help. But they also have far more people that are absolute clowns and have absolutely no willingness to help you. Many things I asked to have noted weren't noted, records of me shipping the laptop back to them were lost in some cases, and even the people that were trying the best they could to help me had their hands tied by Lenovo's policies.
Due to this I will still likely never buy another Lenovo again. But I am glad this issue was finally resolved. They are sending me a box to send back the bad laptop which I'm sure will be resold as refurbished unit to some poor soul that might not ever find a resolution due to the laptop losing it's warranty in April.
Another lesson as mentioned above is not to buy from sites like NewEgg for critical business computers. You have no idea what you are getting and it's much better to find a reputable local partner for a company like HP, Dell, or Lenovo that strictly does business sales as I'm sure they have far more resources to help you when you run in to the type of situation that I ran into.

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PLEASE HELP -T61p- CCFL lamp not working even after replacement

Hello Everyone,
This is my first post so please bear with me.
Skip the first three paragraphs if you don't have time.
I bought a T61p in jan-2008. I have sent this thinkpad to service centers for repair a couple of times, once for replacing the motherboard( the bios updater screwedup) and the other time for a broken LCD hinge. The service was excellent (they even sent me spare parts a couple of times like keyboard, touchpad etc).
A few months ago i spilled some beer on the keyboard, so immediately switched it off, opened the laptop and carefully cleaned everything. Switched it on, TADA it works as good as before.
A couple of months back i realized my warranty is about to expire so i though i would send the system for a final checkup. Now the guys at the service center tell me that there is a spill and to repair it i need accidental coverage which i don't have and cannot buy after the "accident". To repair it they asked for an advance of $800 - the laptop costs around 1400, it seemed to me that the cost of repair was too high. So they send me back my machine.
Now when i switch on my machine, i can see that the screen is active (if i look it at an angle i can see even different colors) but it is almost pitch black. I did some research, bought an inverter and lcd connection cords from lenovo and replaced the old one, no difference. Thought it must be the CCFL lamp, so bought a new lcd screen and replaced the existing one, still no difference. Frustrated, i removed the whole lcd from the hinge and connected my machine to an external monitor, this works perfectly.
My Question: Where is the problem, i replaced lcd, inverter, the connector cords. If there is problem with the graphics card the external monitor shouldn't work(i can even play games on it). Is there anything that can be done (a laptop is better than a converted desktop). Please share your expert thoughts, opinions and comments.
Thanks,
Elliot

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T400: Heat Damage Repair / Replacement Help

I have a 6months old T400. One fine day I decided to store my laptop in the boot of the car for safe keeping. Unfortunately it was a bad decision ; heat damage resulted in a crack on the back of my monitor cover (right next to the lenovo emblem). I am thinking of buying the particular part from lenovo and replace it myself. Where can I buy it and how do I replace it?

i think it would be safer if you ask Lenovo to replace it, since you still have warranty. To remove that part you will have to disassemble pretty much the entire laptop and that would void your warranty.
you can call the number listed in the link in the follow as them about the part.
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4HWSE3
The manual on how to replace the part is here.
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-70069.html
Regards,
Jin Li
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I am a volunteer, and not a paid staff of Lenovo or Microsoft

Computer Instantly Shuts Off Since Returning From Lenovo Repair

Hi,
I have an unfortunate problem, and I hope I can get some help.
I have a G780 with Windows 8 64bit, an i5 Ivy Bridge 3210m Processor, an integrated Intel HD 4000 graphics unit, and a dedicated GForce GT 635m GPU. The system is less than 6 months old.
A few weeks ago, my laptop stopped turning on at all, or recognizing batter or AC power. Lenovo customer support determined it was a hardware problem, and so I sent it in for repair; the Lenovo technician replaced the mainboard, which fixed the problem. When I got it back, the the laptop booted up no problem, and it appeared fine.
When, a few days later, I tried to open a video game, the laptop shut straight off (no blue screen or anything) after about 60 seconds, right as I was reaching the main menu. After this, the laptop was thrown into an automatic repair loop, where the computer would turn on for 20 seconds, then crash; then it would start into auto repair, and crash again; this would repeat over and over again, until it would magically recover into windows. This boot loop has only happened a few times now, but every single time I open a game, the laptop crashes. Furmark GPU stress test also crashes. Weirdest, the laptop crashes when I open GPU-Z to loop at my GForce's info, after about the same amount of time. 1080p video does not cause a crash.
I tried updating the mainboard BIOS, because the version that was on there was old, from 2012, and the new version said previous ones had problems with newer NVidia drivers; after that, I updated the GPU driver to the latest version. However, the laptop still crashes in the same way.
My friends and I are all unable to fix the problem. My best guess is that something is wrong with the hardware of the dedicated GPU, since it only seems to crash when I switch from the integrated card to the dedicated GPU.
I'm worried that, when I sent the laptop to repair to Lenovo for the mainboard to be changed, the GPU was somehow damaged or installed improperly while switching mainboards. I sincerely hope that this is not the case.
But I have never had this problem before getting my laptop back, and the problem it was sent in for was different and corrected.
PLEASE: What is causing the problem with my laptop?
Is there any software error that could be causing this problem? What can I do to fix possible software errors besides update mainboard BIOS and dedicated GPU drivers?
If it's not a software error, what can I do to identify a hardware error in the GPU? Is there any other part that could be causing this problem?
I need any possible advice. This problem is really unfortunately, and I definitely should be having problems after having my computer fixed.

What happens if you take one of the RAM sticks out?
Try running memtest86 and see whether there's an issue with your RAM.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
George
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Mountain Lion + Safari + My Wife

The 3 things above do not work well together.
Here is the short story on EXCESSIVE Hard Drive activity using the 3 items listed above.
I just purchased another iMac for my wife replacing her prior mid 2010 iMac 21.5.
One of the reasons is that after upgrading her prior computer to Mountain Lion, she had excessive hard drive activity.
I had to put her back on 10.7.5 Lion to stop this.
After purchasing this newer mid 2011 iMac 27 for her, the same thing is happening on her user account using Mountain Lion and Safari.
Excessive hard drive activity when using Safari. Even after quting Safari the hard drive keeps reading and writing at an excessive rate.
Something like 5, 10, 20, 40 MB per second read and/or write.
I migrated my account over to this new machine for a test and I don't have that problem when using Safari on Mountain Lion.
This tells me that the System does not seem to be the problem.
It seems to have something to do with her user folder or what she has is Safari.
So, I deleted almost everything thing she had in Safari including bookmarks, cache, top sites, history, etc.
Everything but saved names and passwords.
I refuse to do that as I you would most likely be reading my name in the obituary section of the newspaper.
(Yes, we do have everything backed up but I still refuse to do that)
Instead of putting her back on 10.7.5 Lion on this newer iMac, I started having her use FireFox.
There seems to be no problem now with excessive hard drive activity when using Mountain Lion and FireFox and her user account.
I also have her entire prior hard drive running Lion 10.7.5. cloned on an external hard drive and it doesn't have any problems when running on the new iMac.
Bottom Line, can anyone give me any ideas on why Safari might be doing this for her user account only?
Again, I have tried many things not mentioned here to try and find the cause but have not come up with the answer.
Activity Monitor and/or Console Logs have not given me any answers unless I'm missing something.
2 different computers doing the exact same thing only on her account using Mountain Lion and Safari.
Thinking about calling Tech Support but not sure if Tier 2 or Tier 3 can even give me the answer I am looking for.
Anyone else called about a similar problem with excessive hard drive activity and got any real fixes?
iMac 21.5, 10.8.2, 4 GB memory
iMac 27, 10.8.2, 8 GB memory
Repaired Permissions (no problems)
Started in Safe Mode
Reset SMC
Reset P-Ram
Nothing seems to help for her account when using Mountain Lion and Safari

OK, I might have found the problem.
After spending about a week on her prior computer and about a week on this newer computer, I may have found the problem.
I checked the Activity Monitor again and this time the "Dashboard" was taking up 100% of the CPU
I found a "Widget" in the dashboard that seems to have been either corrupted in transfer or a bad widget.
I had the same Widget in my user folder but it seemed to be OK as I wasn't having any problems.
That seems to be why just her user account was affected.
I removed the Widget on her user account and so far, the Dashboard is only using a percent or two of the CPU processes.
I will report back if things change.
I have her back on Safari for the time being.
Looks like my name won't be in the obituary section of the newspaper, at least for a little while longer, now.

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