Windows 8 on Ideapad Y560

I just installed Win 8 on the Y560, here is what I have to say about it
1)Graphics : Works out of the box (ATI HD 5730 Installed with an Enginering sample driver WDDM 1.2)
2)Sound : Works OTB
3)Wifi : Works OTB
4)Bluetooth : Does not work, Tried to install Win7 drivers but the Installation package says there is no Blue tooth device
5)Hottkeys :They work after installting the Hotkey Driver
6)Power Management : Did not install,The system crashed but no BSOD,Windows Automatically repaired the issue
7)Intel Wifi: Works just fine
8)ACPI Driver : Windows update found one
9)Lenovo Split Screen : Does not work
10)One key theater :Works!
11)Boot times :Very Nice may be due to the included SSD in the notebook
12)Chipset Driver :Installed Sucessfuly
13)Digital Camera :Lenovo Easy Camera Driver installed and works well
Games :
1)Need for Speed Hot pursuit :Works very well at 1360x768
2)Protoype :Works!
3)Dirt3 :Works!
Will Install Win8 on the X220T tonight
Cheers and regards,
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Biggest problem for me is Energy Management and Bluetooth.
Here's what I did to install Bluetooth:
- Install Energy Management for Windows 7
(It will give a warning that program isn't compatible, ignore)
Enable the bluetooth device
Install latest drivers from Broadcom:
http://www.broadcom.com/support/bluetooth/update.php
(this will reboot your PC)
Then uninstall "Lenovo energy management".
You should be able to enable/disable bluetooth via windows and turn it off in Device Manager.
Some annoyances, the 'bluetooth' status light is always on.
I've tried both Energy Management 8.0.2.3 (Y580) and Energy Management 8.0.2.20 (Y570) and both aren't working properly with the Y560.
I almost kind of regret 'activating' bluetooth since I find the light indicator that stays always on annoying.
Hopefully there's update for the Y560, this is my last Ideapad laptop, just awful support.

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Hi, i recently bought a Lenovo IdeaPad N580 (M/N 20182) and it came with windows 8 preinstalled, i have no intentions in keeping windows 8 and i want to format it and get windows 7, this is the first lenovo i buy and i've been reading in the forums and other sites a couple of things that caught my attention.
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What things should i keep in mind, pre download or read before i format and last but not least i would appreciate any advices.
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Hi all,
Windows 8 is a little different as far as burning recovery media.
Here's a thread as far as how to do it.
Dave
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IdeaPad Y560 and SATA SSD

I was frustrated at the lack of recent help info on putting an SSD in a Y560, specifically. I know, it's a five year old machine, but still going strong. So I'm posting this not as a question but how I did it for future reference. I have the top end i7, 500GB, 8GB RAM Y560. SSD: Samsung EVO 850 500GB SATA SSD. End result, it works like a charm, the SSD sitting in the hdd slot where the factory Hitachi HDD sat. What I did.First, the USB/SATA adapters did not work for me. I originally tried putting the SSD on SATA adapter. Was not recognized. I tried using Acronis True Image to backup full disk to a separate USB HDD, then restore onto the SSD in the machine. did not work. I ended up putting the SSD and the laptop HDD in my desktop computer (I have extra bays) then using my Acronis True Image to clone the laptop HDD to the SSD. Then I put the SSD in the laptop. Initially would not boot - got bootmgr missing error. Put the SSD back in my desktop, used Windows disk manager and had to set the system partition as active (not the C drive with the OS). That fixed it. Booted right up and works great.

few more details: Windows 7. and, I also upgraded the Y560 with a Intel 802.11ac 2x2 7260 wireless card. That was a simple swap out. Had to uninstall the older version of drivers, then reinstall Intel Proset wireless. Now I have a dual band ac wireless laptop works well.

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I've had this Ideapad U460 for about two months. Yesterday, when I opened the lid, the screen was really blown out. Text is very light against white backgrounds, and all of the graphics are very light. This isn't an issue with the backlight, even when I turn the backlight all the way down everything is still blown out.
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This issue happens to me as well. It has happened several times since I got my U460. Each time lasts for a day or two, and 2 or 3 months goes by between incidents.
I couldn't really figure out what to take a picture of, and my camera had trouble focusing on the screen. Suffice it to say everything is lighter than it should be.
Switching between "battery save" mode and normal mode seems to be a trigger, though it can happen without a switch.
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No funciona el brillo al actualizar a windows 10 ideapad Z400 touch

Actualice a windows 10 y desaparece la aplicacion de ajustar brillo. O se pone muy alto o muy bajo. Que puedo hacer? Gracias

Hola Disaram1 que tal,
El brillo es uno de los problemas que se arrastra desde la actualización a Windows 8.1, en ese entonces solucionable con el controlador ofrecido para este modelo desde la web de soporte Lenovo.
Ahora el problema es que no hay soporte para Windows 10 y este modelo , te sugiero que apliques lo que se comenta aquí si es que tienes Intel como trajeta integrada.
Que recuerde no existia una aplicación para ajustar brillo es Windows 8/8.1 , te refieres al energy management?.
Un saludo.

Windows 8 on ideapad z575

I have just installed windows 8 pro on ideapad z575. Everything works great all devices are recognized and working. Only issue that I have is that some Microsoft applications from store won't update or install, some of them maybe probably during driver updates because this is all Microsoft basic drivers, besides that everything works flawlessly. Probably that would be fixed when Lenovo release official drivers.

Not all drivers have been released for windows 8 of all machines. The only thing you can try is installing windows 7 driver on windows 8. Most of the time they work but they may not work too and you would have to wait for them to be published.
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Ideapad U310 - Windows 8 startup too slow

I upgraded to windows 8. Installed all the new drivers. Although booting is fast and it comes to the start screen pretty soon, the startup programs take around 3 more minutes to load including wifi and touchpad drivers. This is driving me crazy. Some one pl help
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See if these links help
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Ideapad z570 so many problems with windows 8

i cant make lenovo enegy mangment to work
oneKey theater is not working either
the thermal mangment also not working
plz help

Not all softwares and drivers have been released for windows 8 till now. Please wait for them to be published.
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Fastest way to install windows 8 with windows 7 or vice versa

Hi
How much time did it take for you install windows 8 on your pc as a dual boot? It took me 5m56s!!!
The only difference between you all and me would be the method via which we installed. This method does requires legal windows 8 copy or the one which you re installing. This process is far better than installing by booting from cd.
In this method, we use the install.wim of windows installation to install windows. I found this because i was actually preparing for a project on wim images on school. Basically, windows installer also uses the install.wim file to install windows. It was first introduced in windows vista i believe and from then, the trend continued. WIM stands for Windows Imaging Format. . These images are also used in one key recovery for the factory backup. These images can be managed by dism comand line and imagex tool
I know that i have been dragging it for a bit long, so lets start then. It can be done by two programs, gimagex or imagex. The differnce between the two is that imagex works on command line only but the gimagex is like an imagex with user interface-much easier. So, we would use gimagex here, download from below
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Now select the destination. Select the drive which you cleaned for the installation of the os. Then choose the index number of the os version you want to install.
Click apply and then it would be a matter of 5-6 minutes.
After the process is finished, dont reboot. Now, you have to install Easy Bcd since the windows 8 installation wont be registered in the bot configuration data. Download from here. Just download the non-commercial free copy of the software. Instal it and then run. Go to add new entry, select windows 8/7 and name it as windows 8 and lastly select the drive leter in the drive it was installed and press add entry.
Now it is the time to reboot. You would see windows 8 in the boot menu. Boot into it.
Setup windows 8 and download the drivers from here before hand.
With the help of this, you will be able to easily dual boot windows 8 and windows 7 without messing up anything. This is by far the easiest and fasted method to install windows i have witnessed till now
If you want to clean( only kep one os) install, you will have to use imagex in windows pe mode or in cmd in windows 8 install disk.
After these proesses, i cannot assure if one key reocvery would work, so make backup before hand.
And if you have any questions, feel free to ask
Hope this helps
Regards
Ishaan Ideapad Y560(i3 330m), Hp Elitebook 8460p!(i5-2520M) Hp Pavilion n208tx(i5-4200u)
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Btw, is it possible this becomed a sticky thread?
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Itunes 1.11 windows 8 install problems, itunes 11.1 windows 8 install problems

I am running Windows 8 on a Dell XPS16 laptop and was using iTunes v 10 something. When upgrading my iPhone 4S to IOS7 while connected to iTunes running on my PC, the upgrade indicated that I needed to upgrade my iTunes to v11.1 something (the latest version). I proceeded to do this and the upgrade appeared to work OK. However, when attempting to restart iTunes (after a reboot) all that happened was that the iTunes Software License Agreement window opened on my PC. There are no buttons on the window, even after scrolling all the way to the bottom, and no option but to close the window. So my current state is that I now no longer have a working iTunes on my PC.
I have tried many of the suggestions made to others who were also having problems with this upgrade. Each time I downloaded, saved, ran or re-ran an upgrade, the install appeared to work fine and finished normally. Each time the installation populates the \Program Files (X86)\iTunes folders and the properties of the iTunes.exe are as follows:
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I have tried all of the following and each time I just get the same license agreement window shown previously:
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What was the default os on your laptop? By the way is your system hardware based on 32 bit or 64 bit?
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I could not able to install windows 8 in my new lenovo U410. I tried all the methods which is mentioned in the website, but still I could not able to install. I tried in HDD and also in SSD, tried disabling Intel Rapid Start Technology changing SATA mode to RAID, ACHE and compatible. I tried almost everything, but could not bale to install it at all.
I would appreciate if you guys can help me.
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Hi
There are couple of guides in the forum on what you want to do
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/IdeaPad-Y-U-V-Z-and-P-series/The-Guide-on-How-To-Reformat-Repartition-AN...
Sorry but i was not able to find the other link butvthisclink should be enough.
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Hi Luc,
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The bios should be updated in windows 7 only and shouldn't be updated in any other os other than windows 7.
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