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    Lenovo y500 not turning off

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by kjdskcaz,xjklsl, May 31, 2013.

  1. kjdskcaz,xjklsl

    kjdskcaz,xjklsl Notebook Guru

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    My y500 is not turning off when I go to shut down. The keyboard lights stay on along with the power button. I can hear the laptop so I know it is still on but the screen turns off but nothing else happens. Please help!! I don't want to keep pushing the power button down for 8 seconds to force it off.
     
    kjdskcaz,xjklsl, May 31, 2013
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  2. n1smo

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    How long did you wait before you decided that it is not going to shut down by itself? Usually after a hard shutdown, the next few shutdowns take a little longer. When did this start? Do you have a mSata installed? How are your startups? The first thing I would do is just let it sit and finish whatever it is trying to finish for say 10 minutes before holding the power button to force it off.
     
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  3. kjdskcaz,xjklsl

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    When I click shut down and then have it do its thing, the screen turned off and it wait about 5-6 min before I force it to power down. I started yesterday afternoon and I had a system restore to that time but it still is having the same problems. Mine has the 16GB SSD. Lately it has been freezing withing 5 minutes after I put in my password so I have no choice to force shut down. The last thing I can think of is doing a total reset and hope that fixes the problem.
     
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  4. FSU Logan

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    HDD sounds corrupted. This is what happened to my laptop, then it shut off and wouldn't boot-up again. Time to dial up 1-800-Lenovo
     
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    That is why I hate mechanical hard drives :) Try a system restore and see if that helps...
     
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    More like good luck with fixing it.. Ugh. I hate HDDs now and I have never even had a SSD
     
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    It is like driving a 1948 car next to a Ferrari (not exaggerating). I haven't used hdd for many many years... Not worth having them. But I guess that it goes according to everyone's budget. Still, if it was me and there was a issue with the cost, I would atleast get a 64GB msata disk and have windows installed on it. All the other stuff can stay on the hdd.
     
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    Drastic seems to be an understatement when comparing HDD to SSD, then.
     
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    I did a factory reset on it so I will give it 48 hours and see if it will do the problems it was doing before. I was going to upgrade the ssd in it but if it is giving me problems then I will just wait and see what problem comes next.
     
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    I am still skeptical about the reliability of SSD's. Case in point, my 16gb SanDisk mSata SSD took a crap on me. Got a 30gb replacement and ExpressCache is impressive enough for me. My startup time with hybrid boot (or whatever Microcrap calls it) takes only 3 secs to get into the start page (or whatever Microcrap calls it). Even when it is a restart, it is still very fast. Usually under 10 secs. Running the boot optimizer bat file in the ExpressCache folder has helped immensely. Other reasons I haven't gone SSD on the laptop, price and size. I'm a cheap when it comes to this kind of stuff, which is why I bought the Y500 in the first place. It would defeat the purpose if I keep spending money on this thing, which I've been doing BTW. Bought the ultrabay gpu, 240w PS, and the replacement mSata SSD not to mention the AS5 and miscellaneous stuff. Not spending another dime on this thing.
     
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  11. MrLolo

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    hello, i'm having the same issue, does the factory reset solve it? if not, what can i do? please help
     
    MrLolo, Oct 14, 2013
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