New Lenovo laptop won't allow posting to Mango Lassi
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@scottalanmiller said:
@ajstringham That's not what we are discussing. We are talking about the statement that the website had broken drivers. That's all. Any mention of the system images is something unrelated. I have no idea what you are talking about. I'm talking about the statement that Lenovo wasn't maintaining reliably working drivers for their products. This has nothing to do with system images.
I must have misread it somewhere. Their website is broken for drivers? Which ones? If it's the chipset, etc, you should just be able to get them straight from the hardware manufacturer's site.
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@ajstringham said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@ajstringham That's not what we are discussing. We are talking about the statement that the website had broken drivers. That's all. Any mention of the system images is something unrelated. I have no idea what you are talking about. I'm talking about the statement that Lenovo wasn't maintaining reliably working drivers for their products. This has nothing to do with system images.
I must have misread it somewhere. Their website is broken for drivers? Which ones? If it's the chipset, etc, you should just be able to get them straight from the hardware manufacturer's site.
That doesn't excuse the site for being broken, but it's a viable work-around.
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@ajstringham said:
I must have misread it somewhere. Their website is broken for drivers? Which ones? If it's the chipset, etc, you should just be able to get them straight from the hardware manufacturer's site.
That's what was said above was not working. That the drivers were not available from the vendor.
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Downloading a completely fresh copy of Windows 8.1 that Lenovo has not tampered with. We are assuming that that will fix it.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Downloading a completely fresh copy of Windows 8.1 that Lenovo has not tampered with. We are assuming that that will fix it.
Agreed. You have the ISOs and licenses if you want to upgrade to Pro. Just do it.
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I had a nightmare with a fresh install on a Lenovo laptop. They have an update manager that downloads all the correct drivers, but it missed off the WWAN driver and I just couldn't find it anywhere. It's put me off buying Lenovo again, so after a brief flirtation, I'm back to being an HP only boy.
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I've had issues with some Asus laptops where the drivers on their site were for different hardware then what was installed on the machine. I actually had to figure out what the underlying hardware was and go to the manufacturer's website to get those drivers. I hope Lenovo, arguably a more "enterprise" company, doesn't have the same issues.
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@Dominica the cool thing about all the new Lenovos is they have a factory partition installed on them which can be accessed on startup. So if you do end up throwing a fresh install on there you still have your factory partition to fallback with.
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@Dominica Do you know another site that uses similar AJAX setup? Perhaps we can have a comparison to see if one functions better than the other.
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@DonutDetroyer said:
@Dominica Do you know another site that uses similar AJAX setup? Perhaps we can have a comparison to see if one functions better than the other.
Few do as much or in such an advanced way as NodeBB. It's kind of bleeding edge.
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@DonutDetroyer In order to do a fresh install, we had to wipe all of the drive partitions (like 5 or 6 existed) and reformat the drive.
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@Dominica said:
@DonutDetroyer In order to do a fresh install, we had to wipe all of the drive partitions (like 5 or 6 existed) and reformat the drive.
Yeah, there's the primary, boot, recovery, system and tools usually. It's really freaking stupid and annoying.
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And the original suspicions were right. Lenovo put in a shim that was breaking connections so their own nefarious purposes.
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