Ideapad Y510P

Nice! I regret waiting until today to buy it. Going to have to spend another $100 for one without the ssd

 

Hey guys,

I just received my y510p yesterday from the Amazon link here, although it was $999.99 just a week ago.

At the time, I also bought a third party 9.5mm HDD caddy which I had hoped would recognize the Samsung 840 from my old laptop. However, when I insert it the SSD is not recognized.

Has anyone else gotten an Ultrabay HDD caddy to work in their machine? I'd really like to eventually have the 840 serve as my boot drive with the existing 1TB drive serving as a secondary HDD in the Ultrabay caddy.

 

If you buy one, do it through the barnes and noble promo. They don't ask for any proof of being a student/teacher/staff. It'll save you a bit of money.

 

Ohh I get it now. Thats only for the $1,249 one and I was watching the $1,089 one, my bad. Good deal indeed

 

Ya this (and the XoticPC deal actually look really good. Price could be a little cheaper, but I'm going to ask Lenovo to match this when I ask them to replace my really screwed up y570.

Also how's a single GT750M vs the GT555M? and vs SLI? I need the Blu-ray drive so I want to ask for the single one, but am afraid of not as good performance with a sing 750M compared to 555M

 

Can anyone else not check their order on the Lenovo site?

 

yeah it's been like that for me too; i've tried looking for other ways to check my order status, but the other options say that 'my order does not exist'. i'm just planning to call on monday to see what's up.

 

I just checked about 10 minutes ago and the order status page is working again.

 

Everyone has downtime. MSI was offline last week.

 

Yes, but this downtime was right after they sold a bunch of laptops for $200 less than they were supposed to. Can't blame people for being concerned about their orders. heh

 

Didn't they mass-cancel the orders and refund everyone?

I dont wanna sound like a racist, but honestly, Lenovo hire some more competant & non-chinese staff for their non-chinese websites.

 

I heard about the mass cancellations, but it seems that some orders (like mine) got through. Not sure how many others got the deal.

 

Well, that makes you one lucky s.o.a.b

 

I'm pretty excited about it. I'm actually taking a half-day off work on Tuesday to wait for the UPS guy since it requires a signature. lol

 

Lol mine arrived at 8am, i was still in pajamas lol.

 

My UPS guy comes between 4pm and 6pm 90% of the time. It's rare, but I've seen him as early as 9am. So, there's no way to be sure and I'm not taking the chance of missing him. I want my laptop! lol

I'm even excited to ditch the stock hd and do a clean install of Win8 Pro on my 7200rpm drive.

 

1. Acquire Car/Bus Pass
2. Use method of transportation to go to the UPS Store
3. Enjoy Sleep/Extra day of Work
4. ???
5. Profit

 

Engee, what's your order status? After 48 hours of down time and absolutely no way to contact customer support, mine is still at order processing. Last time I ordered, they shipped it across the us over the weekend. After they cancelled my order on Friday and set me up with a new one, it looks like they haven't done jack. In my experiences so far, it seems lenovo has great customer service (free shipping, free returns, great sales), but they are very very unreliable (reps not knowing anything about the products or prices, constant errors on the site, inconsistent orders, etc.)

 

Hi fellas, y410p owner here. I want to ask you y510p owner's about the quality of the y510p's hinges. On the y410p we have some sturdy plastic ones but since I am going to use this thing for college I'm slightly hesitant about the durability. I've heard the y510p has more metallic hinges but from the videos/pictures I've seen it looks like the y410p ones. Thanks!

 

My order status is "Shipped". This is my first time ordering directly from Lenovo, so I have no other experiences to compare it to. They did get it processed pretty quick though; only took a day to ship. It'll be here Tuesday.

 

I ordered mine on August 5, after the CARDOORBUSTER deal where i saved like $450 on the Canadian Lenovo site. They shipped mine on friday and gave me a tracking code, but currently the tracking code doesn't work right now

 

Hi all, I've had my 510p for a bit.
Had a few issues, the audio driver wasn't installed or working, downloaded it, now it works.. But when I plug my headphones in, they show as speakers, also I have absolutely no enhancements for the speakers.
Second is the ngff port, I want the ssd but can't find one anywhere.
Third.. does anyone have a whitelist of what wifi cards can be used?
And fourth.. do you think I could install a WD Velociraptor drive, I'd like to have the speed.

 

Is your headphones showing as speakers a problem? Are the just normal earbuds? What audio drivers are you using?
From what I've heard, no one has really made ngff ssd yet, you'll just have to wait a bit until they start manufacturing them.
Also not sure about the whitelists. I've seen a lot of people talk about it, but not sure if it even exists. It may have to be a Lenovo branded card or you may need to try modding the BIOS.
No clue about the last question.

Sorry I'm not much help :/


Also, I placed my order on the 5th and it's projected ship date is the 12th (Today technically) and should be here by Wednesday.
I see many people talking about replacing the drive inside (not the ssd) What would you recommend replacing it with?

 

To answer your 3rd question, download the Lenovo hardware maintenance manual for y510p: Hardware Maintenance Manual - IdeaPad Y410p, Y510p

Scroll down to the list of FRU parts and you'll find compatible FRU cards on the list. One of them is Broadcom Wireless-AC with Bluetooth 4.0 package, a direct competitor to Intel's Wireless-AC 7260.

 

Good eye, I've been trying to find this for a while now.

Looking up these cards' FRU numbers doesn't seem to yield any results. Could I, say, buy this BCM4352 and not run into any issues with Lenovo branding?

 

Of course. If it's listed on the manual, it would be fully compatible with a non hacked BIOS.

 

Hi guys,
I ordered my y510p on friday and just got the email this mnorning that it has shipped. Can someone tell me where I can find my serial number so I can look up my exact parts? I have seen others that say it was in their confirmation/shipped e-mail but I can not find it anywhere? How are you guys getting your serial nu,ber befor getting the actual laptop? Am I blind? lol

Thanks for any help!

 

On the order status page, expand the 'Shipment Details'. You'll see the serial number in the same table as your tracking info.

 

Hmmm, strange. I could of sworn I checked there and it wasnt listed but I just went back and its there. Maybe it wasnt updated yet? Either way, thanks for the quick reply!

Here is my parts:
RMT3170EB68F9W-1600 4GB DDR3L 1600
RMT3170EB68F9W-1600 4GB DDR3L 1600
ST1000LM024 BP 9.5mm 5.4K 1T HDD
LGD LP156WF1-TLB2 FHD AG W LED1 NB LCD
Intel 2230 BGN+BT M PCIE HMC Wlan
OKI T4B9USB101KeyDualcolorKBD?win8?
PLDS DU-8A5SH Slim Tray DVD Rambo ODD
WIN8 STD MM DPK IPG
Delta ADP-120LH BA 19.5V6.15Aadapter-CCC
Intel I7-4700MQ 2.4G 6M C0 4cPGA CPU
Yx0 SY L12S6E01 10.8V62Wh 6cellbty No
Volex US15S3+SPT-2 ��VAC5S 1m cord No

I got the 59370005 (non sli) model. looks like I did get the DDR3L Ram, that good? Anything out of place? I have been reading through this entire forum but only on page 70 and that far back people are still complaining about not getting correct parts but I dont know what was said in the last 70 or so pages. On page 70 it was still back in June so like I said, I'm not sure whats happened since then until I finish reading the rest of the posts. I hope to finish today.

Thanks for the helpful and quick response!

 

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Thanks, I'll check that out.

The earbuds are just normal skullcandies, and yes it is an issue they show as speakers; when I unplug them the speakers have the same volume when I don't always have the time to manually mute them. I'm using the audio driver found on the lenovo website for the 510p.

 

If youre having issues with the included Wifi, just uninstall PROset, reboot the PC a few times and it should use the 14.8 (Windows Built-in) drivers by microsoft, been using these drivers for over a month now, zero issues

 

The whitelist lists the i7-4900mq, so we can actually switch out the processor?! I would've figured that the processor would be surface mounted like a lot of manufacturers are doing. Also, no killer wifi cards? I've always used killer on all my personal systems.

 

Um... No it won't be "compatible with a non hacked BIOS". The white list is still enforced for this "Non-Lenovo Stamped FRU" card.

However, it's your 97 bucks, so give it a try and report back here. You can always offer it up for sale on E-Bay if/when it doesn't work. :thumbsup:

 

Has anyone come up with the Hacked Bios for the Y410p/Y510P yet?

I know that the Ivy Bridge models have the hacked BIOS, i bet if the Yx10p bios was unlocked you could probably upgrade to an HQ processor or even a Broadwell in the future.

 

would it be possible to just use a Ultimate Boot CD, and hack it that way?

 

Between the 4900 mq and hq, the mq is faster by .2ghz and has 8m cache compared to the 6m of the hq, but the hq has iris pro whereas the mq doesn't, but what do graphics matter when we're running a 750m or sli?

 

Can anyone tell me a good way to clean the Y510p? I see a lot of black marks on the surface of the laptop and sometimes the keys and I'm not sure what I can do to clean them easily.

Also, with the wifi problem, do I also need to uninstall the intel proset for bluetooth as well or just the intel proset?

Thanks in advance.

 

Cleaning should be in the user manual that came with the unit. I'm sure it can also be found on the website.

 

This is interesting, going through the different manuals and such, the
"Ideapad Y410p/Y510p
Regulatory Notice"
it lists these as the compatible wifi cards:
The following wireless modules are supported on Lenovo Ideapad Y410p:
• 2230BNHMW
• BCM94313HMG2L
• BCM943142HM
• BCM943228HMB
• BCM94352HMB
• AR5B22
• AR5B125
• AR5B225
The following wireless modules are supported on Lenovo Ideapad Y510p:
• 2230BNHMW
• BCM94313HMG2L
• BCM943142HM
• AR5B125
• AR5B225

Anyone recognize any of those?

 

Only the one for Wifi.

 

I'm going through the user manual (I never did whenever I got my laptop..) and it has a bluetooth on/off function using the function key, but I can't see which key it is, and I'm not seeing anything on the individual keys.

 

Fn+F5 for airplane mode, disables BT and Wifi. Look for the small airplane icon on the keyboard.

As a Uni student i find this very useful, since you can turn your Wifi+BT off when you're taking notes, and turn it back on when you need it, and this improves battery life.

 

I knew there was airplane mode but never realized what exactly it did, I know on phones it just disables network connectivity, but didn't know laptops needed it considering airplanes have wifi now.

 

Irony at it's best. But hey, the save button is still a floppy drive isn't it?

:thumbsup:

 

They really need a new save button, I haven't seen a floppy since my 95 desktop used them. I've had some downloads that use a .pif extension, that's what, MS-DOS? Who actually uses that anymore?
Also the BIOS thing, is it just a password lock type thing, or does the bios just not recognize what's not on the list? If its just password locked (meaning you have to have the password from the manufacturer or whatever company made the bios, which never happens) UBCD can wipe all BIOS and CMOS passwords.

 

Hey guys, does optimus work on the non sli version of the y510p? If not, why? Wouldnt it be as simple as downloading the driver from nvidia?

 

There's optimus on the 510p? How come nobody has told me about this?

 

I dont know if it works, thats what im asking, I already know it doesnt work on the sli one but I dont see why it cant work on the non sli. Optimus is just a driver right? I have zero experiance with nvidia optimus and this will be my first actual gaming laptop. Ive always used a desktop. I just cant seem to find a clear answer on weather optimus is able to be used on the non sli y510p. If optimus does not work I assume you can manualy turn off the 750m and just use the iGPU? Is this correct?

 

If it doesn't work on sli, most likely it wont on the standard. Plus its better to play while plugged in, on battery it lags so much while gaming, this laptop, other laptop of the same brand or different brands, have that minor inconvenience.