Lenovo Y500 Windows 7 Format

Has anyone else formatted there idea pad Y500 from WIN8 TO WIN 7?

I read a post
"Guya i found a graphics driver update to 306.30 that does support brightness control
it is one the chinesase lenovo website under drivers of y500 of windows 7
and yes they also have drivers that can make our y500 work with windows 7 for those who do not like the new interface "

Well, any help is appreciated.

 

联想IdeaPadY500驱动下载 windows xp/vista/win7_联想中国(lenovo china)服务频道

go to the dropdown menu and select the windows 7 64bit and install the drivers on windows 7

here is a thread where people tried to convert the laptop
https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/IdeaPad-Y-U-V-Z-and-P-series/Issues-with-Y500/m-p/944841

Glad to help
Glad to realize someone actually reads my posts

 

I have to format it first to Windows 7
and then download the driver page ( 联想IdeaPadY500驱动下载 windows xp/vista/win7_联想中国(lenovo china)服务频道)
And it should work ? Have you formatted yourself? Any problems?
Thank you

 

I tried to get W7 on my Y400, worked but couldnt get wireless drivers so no internet could only use ethernet. Didnt know about these Windows 7 chinese drivers but i dont care to go to W7 again after getting W8 Pro x64 back up and running and everything all set up like i want. W8 in a sense is better than 7 when you download one of the numerous start menu clones then it becomes easier to navigate and you get to save a little bit of memory since W8 eats less of it

 

@malinka
did you try installing these drivers while you were in w7
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?ProductID=3507&DwnldID=22116&lang=eng&iid=dc_rss
@herbness
No i have not. I know that many people out there do not like windows 8 so this post was just some hope to them
however
if you do decide to convert your laptop i would very much appreciate it if you kept us updated on the progress by this thread. if you were sucessful you might actualy help a lot of people fix their problems. i myself am going to try ubuntu on it soon just because of the fun.

 

I was going to attempt wi7 install but once I added startisback I think I will stick with win8. Appears faster and love pinch to zoom. Use it just like win7 with startisback. Also tried classic shell - like startisback better.

 

Hey, it worked out great .. reformated my windows 8 to 7

Used the drivers here 联想IdeaPadY500驱动下载 windows xp/vista/win7_联想ä¸å›½(lenovo china)服务频道

And for the wifi here

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?ProductID=3507&DwnldID=22116&lang=eng&iid=dc_rss

Peace

Loving it

 

How can you manage the LOCKED BIOS?

 

Going to go back to W7 Ultimate 64 bit i cant deal with W8 Pro -_- having some memory leak problem and i just dont like seeing metro ever even if i have it set to skip. Will try those chinese drivers and hope it all works well like for the above poster.

Man i wish i kept my desktop laptops just aint my thing

 

Hey guys question here. Im a bit of a noob here, but I wanted to ask. How did you guys install the operating system? I am having a hard time installing windows 7. Could any of you write how to do it step by step?

 

Hi,

could you please upload for me those drivers? because when I try to download it from the chinese link, it downloads only 9kb/s :/
thanks in advance

 

Has anyone had any issues while using 7? Have you tried using the ultrabay, perhaps even a second gpu?

 

I would like to know this as well.
Looking forward for a response.
I want to get a Y500 but I have no love for W8.

 

So I just installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit, and have all the drivers installed except my second 650m is not seen in Device Manager or Nvidia tools. Has anyone figured out how to get this to show up and work? Thanks.