Posts in Laptops


Lenovo Y700 How to Enable BIOS Downgrade

Posted on 5th Nov 2016 10:06:30 in Laptops

After installing the most recent BIOS CDCN53WW from Lenovo's site I started having issues with the screen and sleep, Sound familiar? The first BIOS's for  the Y700 had screen/sleep black screen issues. To see if it was being caused by the recent BIOS update I wanted to revert to the previous BIOS that was performing well. 

BIOS Downgrade Error

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High Performance NVMe SSD capped at PCIE 2.0 speeds Y700

Posted on 5th Sep 2016 11:24:42 in SSD, NVMe, Laptops

Performance of high speed NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 SSD is capped at ~1600MB/s when installed in the Lenovo Y700 Laptop.

Capped NVMe Performance

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Lenovo Y700 + Samsung 950 Pro

Posted on 4th Dec 2015 09:23:32 in SSD, NVMe, Laptops

I just received my new Lenovo Y700, First thing was to open it up and install a new Samsung 950 Pro SSD in the available M.2 slot. The advantage of buying without the SSD is you don't end up with the PM951 with terrible write speeds or the CV1 M.2 Series again with not that great write speeds. The 1TB slim HDD is left in place for storage.

 

 

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