Thinkpad S531 Ultrabook

Couple of thisngs
Firstly the backlit keyboard on this laptop has never worked? is this a common problem -is there anyhting simple I can check?
Secondly - this laptop came with a 24Gb M.2 SSD on the board, can I replace this with a larger M.2 Drive and install Windows/Boot from it? If so I see there are a varaty of different M.2 sizes 'I mean physical length of the drive not capacity' what would I need? What's the largest supported drive?
Thanks
Pete

Hello Voltage,
I have exactly the same issue : Lenovo S531 bought in september 2013 and it fails to boot (the fan and the leds wake up on power, but the screen keeps black and doesn't load the BIOS). I didn't change anything in the BIOS parameters as you did.
Did you solve your issue ?
Regards,
Fred Martin

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