Posts by freddyspam

I'm glad i could help someone out, and now we know that the mini pcie pin #20 is the correct one to disable. Here is the best diagram I could find online that shows the pins: http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/atta...ci_express.jpg This...

Quote: Originally Posted by moomn but what do you mean with "the heat sink is the bottle-neck"? Read the article I posted and you'll see that the most the grease will help with is the 4C jump from cpu...

Nothing is wrong with the heat sink but thermal grease is only one small part of your entire cooling system. Read my article on thermal greases if you want to learn more: http://www.overclock.net/cooling-exp...ml#post7116893 The 7-8...

Quote: Originally Posted by moomn Hi everybody. I'm from Switzerland and i own a U350 since last week. I have the same problem with the excessive fan noise. Is there any new solution? I guess I will open the notebook...

Quote: Originally Posted by deshilachado Or did you mean TPFanControl by troubadix? Oops. That is what I meant. You can set exactly at what temps the fan turns on and exactly at what speed to run it at. Make...

Quote: Originally Posted by deshilachado I would consider these temperatures very low, too, but Lenovo thinks it's necessary to blow the fan (at medium speed for T>35°C and at full speed for T>40°C). Those are the...

It is soldered on. I think all of the ULV's are BGA. To be honest, it is not impossible to upgrade, just difficult and costly. This guy did it on a Sony UX: http://www.micropctalk.com/forums/sh...5354#post35355

I'm glad to help. 1. After some more time with the laptop, I can say that the fan still turns on most of the time but is on its lowest speed. So it is not as loud. You can hear a definite increase in sound once you start playing videos...

So my friend just got the Lenovo U350. It is the new line from Lenovo that uses the ulv processor and weighs only 3.5lbs. He came to me because the fan on his machine was constantly on and one side of the laptop would get super hot. The...

If you have vista, then its disk manager has the ability to resize your partitions for you (so long as they are ntfs formatted ?? I think.). What you will want to do is transfer all of the files off of your D partition (either to the C...