U310 Win 8.1 weird shutdown/booting

Hi all,
I'm having some Problems with my U310 Ultrabook and hoping to find some help and see if others share some of these issues:
My system:
U310
Intel I3 - 3217U 1.8G
4G Ram
500G HDD 24G SSD
Manuf. Date: 2012/09/23
Initially, the system suffered from very poor WiFi performance, as experienced by many others:
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/IdeaPad-Y-U-V-Z-and-P-series/My-new-u310-gives-really-low-speeds-on-wifi...
After sending the machine to customer support, the WiFi quality is improved greatly (but still not perfect).
Since the support guys reinstalled Win8, I had to do the update to 8.1 again, and since then the system behaves weirdly:
-Booting takes very long, and booting time greatly varies
-Instead of shutting down, the system stays in a state with Power LED on and screen backlight on, and then RESTARTS in some 9 out of 10 attempts. Very rarely the system actually shuts down, but takes very long to do so.
Things I've tried to fix this (among others):
-Reinstall Win8 -> Problem gone -> update 8.1 -> Problem back
-booting in safe mode -> no change
-reinstall intel rapid start drivers as suggested here:
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/IdeaPad-Y-U-V-Z-and-P-series/U310-UEFI-amp-others-problems/td-p/1216796
-> does not work
-run sfc /scannow in command prompt:
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/IdeaPad-Y-U-V-Z-and-P-series/U310-Novo-key-does-not-work/td-p/1254815
-> does not work
If anyone of you is experiencing similar problems, or is even having ideas how to fix this, i'd be very grateful to read about it!
Big Thanks.
Greetings from Germany

Hi everyone,
a little update/bumping:
Lenovo Support asked me to do the OneKey Recovery -> Afterwards I had to reinstall 8.1, shutting down now works, booting still takes too long for a SSD system, but OK.
Only thing left: System ALWAYS crashes when closing the lid - sometimes right away, sometimes shortly after logging in again...
Just because it sounds somewhat similar, I already tried uninstalling the bluetooth driver
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/IdeaPad-Y-U-V-Z-and-P-series/Z500-boot-issue-after-updating-to-Windows-8...
but did not change anything.
Any help is appreciated!

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Win8, HP Pavillion Slimline s5-1400t. Win8 will shut down the computer using "shut down", however, later when I want to turn the computer on, it will not come on using the power button, which is what all the literature says to do. HP tech support has not been able to help me. The ONLY way you can start this computer after it has been shut down, is to unplug the power cord, plug it back in and THEN push the power button. All power schemes have "sleep" disabled. Help!

If it's not shutting down with the SHIFT key method and won't turn on after using the hybrid shutdown (Win 8's default shutdown mode), there is something strange happening.
What happens if you try to shutdown by just pushing the power button on the computer once (same as you would to turn it on), without holding it down for 5 seconds? That should also work to shut off the computer with Win 8 hybrid shutdown.
Here is an HP Support document with info on how to use your BIOS: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c03383166&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&product=5297229
The IE10 issue could be related to how Windows 8 uses Flash in the new "touch" browser (the default browser from the Start screen). If you switch to your Desktop and open IE from there, your site may work. Windows 8 can take a little time to get used to on some things.
For reference, here are some Win 8 videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnsZC48QebLpivzjf9WOFMNyE6EPahdtL
I hope this helps.
...an HP employee just trying to help where I can, but not speaking on behalf of HP.

Screen going crazy and locking up. Please help!

Every once in a while (maybe every other day) my screen with just out of nowhere freak out, get cut in half, weird lines through everything, and completely freeze...out of the blue.
I have a cincema display and this used to happen sometimes when it was plugged in, but it happened today when the macbook pro wasn't plugged into anything. It also did a weird shutdown/sleep thing randomly today too.
Any ideas? Nothing else happens. I have to hold down the power button and reset the computer.
It doesn't appear there are any other issues.
Here is a photo and a link to a video.
http://i59.tinypic.com/35kjpud.jpg
http://tinypic.com/r/9u6nuv/8

That is a clear symptom of a damaged graphics chip. If your Macbook is still under warranty, now would be the time to bring it in to the Apple store and have them look at it.

A little problem.. Please HELP

Hey Community,
So here is the situation, I keep getting this weird shutdown glitch that happens while I am using my MacBook Pro. An apple employee told me I might have to back up everything so they wipe my computer clean to help solve the problem. I am completely fine with that because all I have is music, some pictures, and some documents and I can redownload all the apps I purchased from the app store. The problem is my microsoft office I purcahsed seperately. How can I back up microsoft office if the cd and code I used can only be used once. It gets better, I threw away the CD and code because I thought it was useless. What can I do to get Microsoft back on my "new" MacBook without having to pay 150$ all over again? Is it possible?
Thanks,
Alex

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