Topic: Lenovo z500

[goldshirt*9]

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moved from another board, needed to be put here

I am having a nightmare trying to get my daughters laptop's keyboard to work. wont do anything even after driver installs. Cannot enter bios as keys dont work AAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRr
Occasionally it has the decency to repeatedly show the number 1/ ! in any search bar.
Methinks its buggard
About to phone up Lenovo to get it sent back 

After waiting 40 minutes finally spoke to person of limited English but very nice and helpful.
This is what he said.

Mr Lenovo instructed me how to boot into bios and restore to factory settings,
they said this normally rectifies things. 
I did state I have reinstalled drivers and power management already, but I tried anyway.
Thing was, Keyboard wont allow me to move cursor to the restore option .
It Made me laugh. 
Laptop is being sent back post new year.
All I need to do is remove some movies my daughter has on hdd, cough cough just to be safe 

[smokester]

Can you not plug in an external keyboard?

It could be that the ribbon has slightly dislodged underneath the keyboard.  That's happened with a few machines I've owned.

[goldshirt*9]

Have plugged in an external keyboard and works.
Could be the ribbon, but the keyboard lights up so power is there, just nothing else works. still under guarantee so back it goes.
Daughter can use my laptop for a while, just have to get use to Linux mint for a bit 
After my last laptop from asus online with all the trouble I had, it goes back next week.
Have looked on youtube in how to strip the laptop to put more Ram in 
Not a easy, I have to unclip the back to get at the front to remove keyboard, to then get at the back. 
not as easy as my samsung 

[goldshirt*9]

Returned from Lenova with bios updated and new motherboard.
Works a treat for daughter.
At last have mine back so i can again play around with Mint kde 

[goldshirt*9]

what a pile of poo.
constantly freezes on windoze 8.1 for no reason.
checked all ram/hdd/updates with every program i have, all ok.
wondering if a reverse to windows 7 is required 

[smokester]

Buy a mac.

* smokester sniggers.

[goldshirt*9]

pfft 
if it was mine then maybe, NOT for 13 yr old daughter though 

[goldshirt*9]

a free windows 10 upgrade appeared on her laptop today when released.
Cannot get any worse surely 

[goldshirt*9]

thats it, cest fini. the end of windows 8. had enough of freezing screens.
Installed Windoze 7 and what a fantastic difference it made.
peace from daughter at last.
Windoze can even keep W10 even if its free.

[smokester]

I like Win 7 just fine.  As far as I'm concerned, it ain't broke...

[brickbatz]

I built a gaming PC. If Windows 10 didn't support DirectX 12 I'd still be using Windows 7 (DX 11 - 11.1).

It was a painless upgrade.

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