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    Lenovo Y580. Can't Boot From ODD Bay.

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by spiritofmachine, Jun 22, 2013.

  1. spiritofmachine

    spiritofmachine Newbie

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    Yesterday I moved my HDD to my ODD bay via a caddy. Today I noticed graphics issues when gaming so I decided to revert back to default Lenovo graphics drivers. There I also updated to the lastest BIOS. However when I tried installing the defualt Nvidia drivers from Lenovo my laptop messed up and I had to restore it via one key recovery. However after I rebooted the laptop, it no longer would boot from the ODD bay. If I go into the BIOS it however recognized the hard drive. When I moved the HDD back to its original slotv(between the CPU and GPU!!!) it would boot like normal.

    Can someone help me as to why HDD wont boot via ODD bay? Could this be BIOS related? And if so is there any way for me to downgrade the BIOS?
     
    spiritofmachine, Jun 22, 2013
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  2. alucasa

    alucasa Notebook Evangelist

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    Not sure why it wouldn't boot from ODD bay, but there is no way to downgrade motherboard BIOS in conventional way. The only way I see is replacing BIOS chip if it's not removable.

    Make sure you select correct HDD in boot order. Disable UEFI and choose legacy mode if nothing else works and redo boot order.
     
    alucasa, Jun 22, 2013
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  3. panzer06

    panzer06 His Imperial Majesty

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    Wouldn't he need to reformat the drive to mbr if he uses legacy mode?

    Cheers,

    Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD
     
    panzer06, Jun 22, 2013
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  4. alucasa

    alucasa Notebook Evangelist

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    He would have to, yep.
     
    alucasa, Jun 22, 2013
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  5. spiritofmachine

    spiritofmachine Newbie

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    Okay nevermind my question. For whatever reason it is now booting from the hard drive no problem. I however have a problem with the 660m being used by progrmas like Google Chrome, Energymanagement.exe, and touchzone.exe, when these programs should really be using the HD 4000. Should I make a new thread for this question?
     
    spiritofmachine, Jun 22, 2013
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