Y580 Win8 - bluetooth not working

Question

Hi
I upgraded to windows 8 professional an most things are working pretty good.  However there are some things that aren't working quite right.
After the upgrade the bluetooth stopped working.  I went to the driver matrix and selected my computer from the list and downloaded the bluetooth driver for windows 8 64bit.  When i try to run it, it says there is no appropriate driver to instal.
Another small problem is the touchpad.  It works and lots of the gestures work, but some are missing.  I also tried to download the driver from the driver matrix.  I downloaded the windows 8 64bit driver.  When I try to run it, it says to run the 64bit version of the driver, and to contact customer support.  I tried redownloading the driver to make sure I was using the 64bit version, and got the same result.
Everything else seems to be working great.
Any ideas how to get bluetooth to work (main concern)?
Adam.

Answer 1

Hi Adam, 
    So, I had this same problem on a fresh OEM install of windows 8 pro. No bluetooth, the trackpad was nearly useless and there was an unknown device in device manager. I tried just about everything I could as well as a few of the tricks listed here and nothing worked. So, I eventually got ahold of the windows 8 drivers from various global support sites and decided to do a reinstall -- it worked -- and here's what I did:
(I'm not a hacker or technician, just a tinkerer -- but my fiddling worked out.)
     As near as I can guess, I believe that the drivers for windows 8 are very pickey about when and what partition type they are installed to. It appears that Win 8 will allow you to install it onto any NTFS formatted drive (logical or other) and this creates a problem with the drivers.(?) I decided to re-install Win 8 on a standard format NTFS in x64 (I purchased an aftermarket mSATA SSD, so the reinstall was being done without effecting the original install.) Again -- I made certain that the format was a zero frills NTFS! I had already created a driver disk with the collected drivers that I took from the internet, however Windows told me that there were "no signed drivers present", I decided to continue and windows intalled as usual. When I attempted to install the drivers this time round everything went fine and all of my Lenovo Fn keys, power manager,  bluetooth, touchpad, etc. started working fine.
   So, just to check I did a reinstall on the original disk after re-partitioning using the original drivers and that worked too.  
So, the closest that I can figure without doing some linear troubleshooting by recreating the problem is that A: Windows 8 is really pickey about disk formats. and B: Some of the drivers on the Lenovo US site haven't updated. 
Again -- I'm not claiming that I understand exactly why this is happening or how I fixed it for myself, but there you have it.
Cheers and good luck,
Aaron
P.S. The SSD and this computer are totally awesome, I really hope you get everything working okay.