U410 Power Settings

Hi,
I have a lenovo IdeaPad U410 bought in February of 2012.
After updating to 8.1 sometime in February, my laptop slowly started getting wonky. Exams eventually came and decided to take care of the issue in the summer.
It wouldn't restart, shut down or sleep whenever I clicked it and if it did, I just got lucky. I had all windows updates and driver updates, so there was no issues there.
Anyways I did a quick Google search and found under change occurs settings < recovery < refresh pc without deleting files, so I did this but I still have the same power settings messed up. Now I backed up all my files and did a total reformat but the problem still exists. I have also tried to go into UEFI settings but it consistently messes up by freezing at restarting screen and I'm scared of force shutting down so often.
Can someone offer a solution? I am entirely fed up with this pc especially after requiring an external USB wifi dongle for better speeds, as well as being faulty just over a year in use.
Any help is appreciated.
Thano in advance,
Tony

hi HongYau,
If you currently have a Windows 8
It is adviseable to first Run the Windows update, all that's available, Then Upgrade it to Windows 8.1
the drivers will updated automatically.
Is your system still freezing?
Regards
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