Lenovo IdeaPad Y410P Owners and Information thread

Did some of you guys get the Synaptics touchpad? My Y410p happens to have the Elan touchpad (at least that's what drivers got installed). Touchpad is a little weird, but not awful - at least to me.

 

To Install Geforece 320.18 drivers:

Take the NVLT.inf file from the drivers folder of the Lenovo drivers, rename it to NVLTn.inf and replace the NVLTn.inf of the 320.18 drivers.

Its simple. All Geforce drivers check the list of all of the .inf files and uses the .inf file that has your card listed in the DeviceID section. Been doing this for over 8 years now. You can go a lot further also with the Nvidia file modding. Its tedious but often rewarding.

 

To anyone who own Y410p, to access the Function keys (F1-F12), do you need to combine-press with FN key too?

 

...and of course, the day I cancel the replacement's order is when they decide to ship it. I checked the parts list for this unit and it's still got the same LCD panel.

I wouldn't recommend going with any other driver than the factory Lenovo's because they will cause the system to continually switch between the IGP and the Geforce. This is going to compound the issue even further.

 

But the stock Lenovo driver's do it too!

 

The drivers from nVidia's website is worse, it switches randomly every 20-30 seconds whether or not you're in a game or just working on the desktop.

 

Received my IdeaPad Y410p Laptop - 59369916 a few days ago. Screen is glossy and kind of washed out. I haven't tried gaming on it and probably never will. First thing I installed saw Start8 and then VirtualBox. I am running Ubuntu and Windows 7 virtual machines without any problems. Aside from the screen I am really liking this laptop. The battery life has been decent so far. Boots incredibly fast. Haven't had any wireless connectivity issues. Touchpad seems fine to me.

 

Debating on canceling my 410p order and just going with this. Especially if its going to take till July 29th to ship the 410p.

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Thoughts?

 

Calm down kemosabe. Google "Classic Shell". You get your start button back, and then Win8 functions pretty much like Windows 7. Much less effort than a clean install. But, if you want to do it anyway, use a product like Acronis to back up the entire drive in case you decide to roll back once Windows 8.1 launches later this year. Here's one of the few M.2 drives I've found on the market. Waaaaaay too expensive.

I got some pretty bad artifacts playing Blood Dragon last night. No flickering screen. but a lot of pastel-see-through-floating-rectangles just randomly around. Quite a few of them.

I am super pleased with the performance of this. nVidia Experience "optimized" the graphics settings in Blood Dragon for me *cough* maxed them out to ultra *cough* and this Y410P chewed the game up and spit it out. Not one single stutter, not one FPS drop. Now the drivers just need fixed to get rid of my artifacts! I think they're actually outlines of buildings waaaaaay in the distance being partially rendered thru foliage for some reason.

 

I suppose I have another concern: This puppy put out some real HEAT while playing last night. What program are you guys using to monitor CPU/GPU temps? Has anyone replaced the thermal compound on a Y series notebook, or is that not a concern? I do have the AmEx warranty, so not suuuuuper worried about it, but I'd prefer to avoid hassles.

 

I'm surprised that it is taking that long for you. I ordered mine yesterday just in time for the DADDOORBUSTER deal on the base y410p model and it's already been shipped to me as of about an hour ago. Supposedly will arrive Monday, but could be sooner depending on UPS

 

i use hwmonitor and msi afterburner. i just like to see the temps in real time while playing the game. they can be easily downloaded from the net. i think the temps of y410p and y510p are way higher because the cpu and gpu boost and overclocks automatically.

we would like to see your temps if you won't mind.

my cpu and gpu temps on blood dragon are around 75c to 80c. gpu's are still 650m and i have no AC in my room.

 

Lenovo has no reliability with this screen thing. Im just going to keep my glare screen. Im kinda used to it anyway.

I have not played any games yet but have not seen any switching between the GPUs.....yet.

 

Hello peeps. Any suggestions on good sleeves and a messenger bag for the y410p? I like the original lenovo bags but I'll treat it as a last resort.

 

What model did you get? 59369916?

I just got off the phone with a Sales rep and he was no help at all. He said that no PO had been generated and that meant that mine was coming off the shelf in North Carolina and not china, which was a good thing. I said "So its going to take over a month to ship from North Carolina to Texas?" He said yes and then I hung up. Ridiculous. I might be canceling my order when I get home.

 

That's really odd. Mine came from north Carolina and took 2 days. I live in georgia so I could see it taking at the most a week to get to Texas

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Got my replacement laptop today, and the screen is still glossy. Don't have the patience to send out for another replacement - will just get a matte screen protector to take care of the glare.

On the positive side of things, I seem to have got a better built mousepad. Not as flimsy as in the previous model.

Does anyone know how I can do a clean install on this laptop? It has a weird partitioning setup, and I'd like to wipe it and do a clean install (of Win7 if a clean install of the OEM Win8 is not possible). Thanks in advance.

 

How can you tell if the graphics are switching over when on auto mode?

On the topic of temperatures, my cpu's have been around 50-55 C when doing light browsing with chrome. I'm currently getting around 3 hours when using the battery with 30-40% brightness and light browsing. Using the batterybar program it shows the battery is discharging at a rate of 12000-13000mw.

EDIT: found my answer on SD

Nvidia help:
"How do I know which programs, displays, and videos are using the NVIDIA high-performance GPU?

Click the NVIDIA GPU Activity icon in the Windows notification area. The window indicates:
Which displays and video are accelerated using the NVIDIA high-performance GPU.Which display connections are driven by the NVIDIA high-performance GPU.

If there is no GPU Activity icon, click Desktop from the NVIDIA Control Panel menu bar and select Display GPU Activity Icon in Notification Area"

You get a taskbar tray icon that you can click on to show which programs are using the GPU.

 

Just got mine yesterday, here are some initial impressions:

1) Build quality is so-so; as I was pulling it out of the box, I noticed a loud creaking noise. I opened the lid gingerly, fearing that I cracked the screen or something. Turns out if you pinch the bottom of the LCD (between the hinges) and the bottom half of the laptop (keyboard, DVD drive part), it makes a loud creaking noise. The "carbon fiber" look feels like plastic to me. Don't get me wrong, its "OK" build quality, but not great.

2) Yup, my screen is glossy (I got the 1600x900 screen). Its a bit less glossy than some other consumer-level laptops, but nowhere near matte. And as another poster pointed out, it looks like Lenovo changed the description of the Ideapad 410p on their website to reflect that it has a glossy screen (no longer shows "Antiglare HD"). I'm curious for the people that got Lenovo to swap out their LCD for a "matte" one....if they really ended up getting a matte LCD

3) Also about the screen, the quality is not great. Til now I knew that 14" 1600x900 screens have all be pretty crappy no matter what brand the laptop (mine is a LG screen per the hardware ID, dunno how accurate that is). The colors are washed out and while the screen brightness does get pretty bright; at max brightness everything looks crazy white-washed. As someone else stated, the colors looked "muted" and black backgrounds look more like a grey etc.

4) the weight (per my digital scale) is 5lbs, 7.5oz; so a bit less than 5.5lbs. This is the model with 900p screen and no SSD cache

5) The performance is pretty nice for gaming. I fired up Battlefield 3 with no tweaking (no driver changes, removing bloatware, etc.) and the game auto-detected the graphics settings at 1600x900 res, 50 "draw distance", and Ultra settings. I toned down the settings to the "High" preset (I think all options set to "high", but 0 or little AA and 16x AF) and turned up the draw distance to 90 (max). I was getting around 35-65FPS in a 32man "Close Quarters" DLC map. I may have to tone settings a bit more if I play those bigger maps with vehicles etc.

6) The keyboard is pretty nice, being a Lenovo (not as nice as their Thinkpad keyboards, but not as bad as regular consumer laptop keyboards like Acer, Dell, etc.). The red backlighting is kind of cool.

7) The touchpad is not great... and it makes a very loud clicking noise, so no incognito computing at libraries etc. (or use an external mouse).


Overall I think this is a very good deal for a 4th Gen Core i7 "Haswell" laptop with NVidia 750M graphics, value-wise. Especially since Haswell just came out and other computer manufacturers have yet to ship out new models.

The main cons for me are the screen (pretty bad quality), and touchpad. Since I plan to do some work on this too 9+hrs a day, the crummy screen may entice me to return it for something like a Thinkpad T530 with 1920x1080 screen.

 

I don't think the screen quality is that bad... Or bad at all but I do dislike the touchpad.

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Would you mind trying bigger maps with the same settings? After playing BF3 for a while, my screen starts flickering black, I'm interested to see if it's just my Y410p or not. Thanks.

 

Yea sure, I'll try it out tonight.

 

Hello again!
So I installed Windows 7 Ultimate but I'm having trouble with the touchpad drivers....supposedly, there's two: Touchpad_Elantech_Win7_64_Z11509.zip and Synaptics_v16_3_15_1_C_XP32_Vista32_Win7-32_XP64_Vista64_Win7-64_Signed_Acme_Inc.zip but after installing both and restarting I haven't been able to use the touchpad like before...it doesn't zoom, or does the 2-finger page down/up.

Any Ideas?

 

Interesting, looks like the Y410p can either be outfitted with a Elantech or Synaptics touchpad. Aren't Synaptics usually considered superior?

Do you have both drivers currently installed? If so maybe you want to try one at a time (uninstall the other)?

 

Any word on the M.2 SSDs?

 

I want to reformat the harddrive of my new t410p and install Windows 7 on it, will I have any problems if I do? Or, reformat and fresh install windows 8? I really don't want any of the junk that came with the laptop. WIll I have any driver problems?

 

After another round with them not knowing what was going on with my order, I canceled my 410p order and went with the y500 with 750sli and 16g of ram. Order updated and ships tomorrow. Doesn't seem like lenovo was ready for the demand.

 

Got mine today. I swore I saw somewhere that you can disable the backlit keyboard. I've searched and found nothing. If possible I'd like to turn it off when on battery, is this possible?

 

Fn + Spacebar

 

Fn + Spacebar

 

Please take a look at #169
http://forum.notebookreview.com/ide...eapad-y410p-owners-information-thread-17.html

I think that will help you, I was able to install a fresh win8 on mine.

Goodluck!

 

Looks like the Elantech driver hadn't installed after all...I only see the Synaptics in the Control Panel. Should I uninstall it and try installing Elantech instead?

 

Actually, I installed another Synaptics driver but after installation was successful, it said that a Synaptics device could not be found. Now I can't uninstall it because it says that the module could not be found?? I'm going to go ahead and install the Elantech anyway and see what happens.

Also, for some reason, when my laptop boots up I have the option to boot windows 7 or windows 8. How do I get rid of that option so that I can directly boot up to windows 7?

 

Decided to make an account to take part of the discussion.

Shipping: I've had my 410p about a week and a half now. Although my shipping date was about 2 weeks out, it only took 3 days to get it.

Screen: I got the 900 screen, as others have mentioned it's glossy and not the best quality. However, it's not horrible. The most irritating thing about it is the viewing angle...it washes out very quickly when viewed from above. I find that I like the screen a lot better when the brightness is not maxed out.

Ultrabay: I'd like to add some more storage by using the Ultra bay with a HDD caddy (especially since I swapped the HDD for an SSD), but the Lenovo sales rep didn't have a part number. I wouldn't mind getting a $12 caddy off ebay, but have two issues: 1) I need some sort of cover for it so the caddy isn't exposed 2) I'd like to get the plastic part that screws into the end of the caddy and locks into the laptop....I'd prefer to keep it on the DVD drive so I can do a quick swap. Failing that, an inexpensive external DVD enclosure would be nice.

Trackpad: Not liking it. Besides sensitivity issues, mine seems to have some kind of a bug where the two finger scroll sensitivity increases the longer the laptop goes without restarting. After a couple days, I can keep my fingers in the same spot, rock them slightly back and forth, and zoom down a long webpage. After restarting, it goes back to normal. I tried the Synaptic drivers, and they felt a little better, but I did lose two finger scroll.

Build: General build quality seems fair. It is plastic, but has kind of a faux carbon fiber like finish to the outside top and bottom. Hinge seems tight. People love the backlit keyboard, I get oohs and aahs from everyone who sees it. The spacing between the keys seem just right, and the keyboard gives good feedback.

Wireless has been fine on windows for me. However, booting onto a Linux LiveCD, I would get frequent disconnects, some lasting for a minute or two. Trackpad felt better in Linux.

Although not without its drawbacks, I think this laptop has the best bang for the buck of anything out there, and overall I'm happy with it.

 

Does anybody know all of the touchpad gestures and has like a list of them?
I remember seeing it on my computer but I can't seem to find it.

 

Have you had a chance to play BF3 yet? If so, have you experienced a black flickering?

Thanks

 

Weird, I thought I replied.

Yes, I played a few Caspian Border 64player maps and no black flickering at all. This is with stock drivers and everything on High at 1600x900 res.

 

control panel->search "mouse"->change mouse settings->Device settings tab->settings. Will bring you to a list of gestures and options..

 

Thank you! Do you mind telling me your Intel and Nvidia driver numbers?

 

I snuck in a quick 13 Min session of Blood Dragon. Highest settings at 1600x900. Y410p 9916 layout: i7 4700MQ, 8GB DDR3L, 1TB HDD+24GB SSD, GT750M 2GB GDDR5.
Using HWMonitor running in the background I logged a max of 83*c on the cpu, and 77*c on the GT750M. Mighty toasty!

Edit: in a 70*f room.

 

Just realized that the # 1 key on the keyboard does not always register. Sometimes I have to tap it 4 times before it works. Curious if other are having an issue with the keyboard?

 

SWITCHABLE GRAPHICS and Win7 64bit on y410p

My y410p hasn't arrived yet, but someone online lenovo y410p/510p downgrade windows 7, drivers ,switch graphics , advice , rant , must watch!!! - YouTube says that you can in fact have SWITCHABLE GRAPHICS on this notebook and can fully successfully downgrade to Win7 64bit. Can someone with their notebook in hand test and confirm this?
Thanks

 

Graphics are already switchable in Win8.

 

All drivers are on the Chinese Lenovo website. 联想IdeaPadY410P驱动下载 Windows 8 32-bit,_联想中国(lenovo china)服务频道

 

How many backlights are on your spacebar? I just noticed mine only had one on each end with none in the middle, seems kind of weird.

 

@berrykerry, should you download ALL the drivers shown there?

 

I'd just get the ones you need. For example the oneKeyTheater isn't really necessary and the Intel drivers on the site are not the latest version.

 

Why does it say my graphics card is an intel 4600? It said it came with a nvidia 750?

 

We have switchable graphics. To change it go to nvidia control panel default graphics card selection. You can also specify certain apps. For some applications you can just right click and hit run with graphics card.....and choose which one you want.

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an update on my y410p experience. I'm somewhat of a noob on laptops and this one was my first ever own laptop so please pardon my lack of tech savy-ness: Last sunday after a week of installation of games (SWTOR, LOL, Terra, GuildWars 2. which all operated fine with max settings 50-65 FPS) I decided to defragment my hard drive. Now, after this "disk optimzation" I turned off the laptop and run a few errands. After said errands, I booted up my unit and got stuck in this boot loop thing. It showed a blue screen with a frowney face and with text saying something along the lines of "windows has encountered a problem booting up" and then the black splash screen from lenovo. I called up tech support so I can have this thing resolved. He told me that my laptop might have a bad hdd. So he recommended I return it and ask for a new one. So here I am. Waiting for a new y410p. Anybody have similar problems?

TL R After disk deframent, laptop got stuck in boot loop. RMA'd.