20 Most Recent Lenovo IdeaPad Y430-3231U Notebook - Page 2 Questions & Answers

In my experience, i will press the power button(if my battery gets too low and the screen get black), then the laptop will get to the previous screen automatic As the set of my laptop is that, when I closed the lid, laptop will go to sleep but not turn off, and the laptop will woke up after I opened the lid. try and to see anything helpful?

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There are only a number of things that you can try at this point, because the bottom line is to determine if you are really having a hardware issue with the audio port of your Y430. If you wish to know more information surrounding your system, you can visit Lenovo's consumer support site :

Lenovo Consumer Support

Here are the few things that you can try to confirm the audio port's hardware issue :

1. Try a known good working set of headphones
2. Plug in a known good working set of external speakers
3. Re-install and upgrade your audio driver

If none of these would work, then it's 100% sure that the motherboard needs to be replaced where the audio port is embedded. My apologies to deliver the very bad news, but I would strongly suggest for you to contact Lenovo's warranty support and speak with the technician over the phone for other possible options.

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Hello rakshitjoshi, and Welcome to FixYa!

Here are my recommendations on how to resolve, or to further determine the audio issues that you're having :

• Try another known good working headphones and see if it works
• Plug in a known good external speakers
• Re-install the audio drivers

If none of the above would resolve this problem, then I am really sorry to say that there's an issue with the external audio port of your motherboard. I would strongly suggest for you to contact Lenovo's warranty support and tell them about this problem and all the things you tried. Similarly, you will find more information via their website :

Consumer Support(Lenovo)

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I read your problem description regarding "No Audio" when headset is plugged in and what you've tried was the appropriate ways to troubleshoot and determine this kind of problem.

Trying 3 pairs of known good working headphones and drivers re-installation without resolving this issue clearly tells us that there is a problem with the audio port. It is quite unfortunate that this port is embedded in the system board and the only way to get this resolved is, yes, motherboard replacement.

The next big steps to do is to contact Lenovo Idepad consumer support and discuss this with a technician over the phone. Similarly, you will find more information regarding your system, issues, and possible solutions through their consumer support website :

Lenovo Consumer Support

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Hi verneaimable,

I'm glad to help you out with the boot up issue of your Ideapad Y430. Based on the details that you have provided this is leading to a software issue. To address this concern, you need to reload the Operating System of your machine. OS has been corrupted causing you not to boot up on Windows. Lenovo do have this One Key Recovery button that you can use. You need not to worry because I have step by step procedure below making it easy for you to do the process:


Discalaimer: Using the One Key Recovery will put back your machine to it's factory settings. Any important file/software you currently have will be wiped out. You might want to create back up copy first of all your files before continuing on the process.


Steps:

1. Turn off your compter.

2. Look for theOne Key Recovery button on your PC. It's near the power button.

3. Press the OKR button, wait until your computer turns on.

4. After Windows loading files you'll be routed on Lenovo One Key Rescue System.

5. Select One Key Recovery then, select restore from Intial back up.

Usually it will take 20-30 minutes for the whole process to be done. Once it's finish just reboot your computer. You'll now have the operating system reloaded to your pc. This should fix the issue.

Hope it helps.

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Hi, If your issue is your computer wont turn on or wont display anything, you could try power draining by removing the battery and unpluging the ac adapter and press and hold the power button for 15 sec while the battery and ac is out then plug it all back then turn on your computer. If your problem is with the Operating system like XP, Vista or Win 7, you can restore your system to its original factory settings but just a warning it would delete eveything on your computer so you might consider backing up all you important files. Here's the procedure, first make sure that the ac adapter is plugin so that it would not interupt the process if the the battery runs out, then look for a small button just beside the power button that a arching logo on it or the word "NOVO" then press once that small button without turning your computer on because it will just turn on when you press that small button, then it would go directly to the One Key Recovery Option then choose one key recovery on the options given then it will guide you to the whole process of restoring your system to its original factory settings. Hope it helps

Hello,
If the audio driver is working properly but the microphone isn't, ensure that: 1(a). The microphone is not muted.On Windows XP, go to start, run and type sndvol32 and press enter button to launch the Windows Sound Volume Management Panel. Under the Microphone volume control, uncheck "mute" box.This should make your microphone functional again. (b). The wrong microphone may be selected, esp. if your sound-card has an external port for microphones.To rectify the problem, use 1(a) as illustrated above, go to File>Advanced Controls and select Input Devices.Under the Microphone advanced settings, you'll see MIC1 Select and MIC2 Select. Switch the selection as appropriate until it works. 2. If the audio driver has it's own Sound management Panel, e.g that of Realtek, open it's sound control panel and disable all microphone effects that may be enabled. 3. Ensure that sound acceleration is maximum. Open the DirectX Diagnostics Engine by going to Start>Run> and type dxdiag and press enter button.When the window opens, click the Sound tab and slide the Sound acceleration bar to maximum.
I hope my solutions work.Have a good day.

Most laptops have a removable slot on the bottom of the unit where the aircard is located...it connects the same way as the memory sodimm module and there are usually 2 (primary and secondary) antenna leads that simply plug in to the board.

Hi sroger1,

If the OKR or One Key Recovey failed your option is to use a Recovery Disk of your Laptop you can request a Recovery Disk by calling Lenovo Hotline. It will be shipped to a US, Australia and New Zeland address. If you purchase your machine from a different country you need to ask the seller for a copy of the recovery disk.

Lenovo Tech Support Hotline: 1877-453-6686 or 1877-4LENOVO

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Make sure first that there are no devices plug in to the usb when you boot up the computer. Check if the harddrive is being detected by the computer. Press F2 to go to BIOS menu and see if the computer can detect you harddrive. It should be under the main menu and will say below harddrive. It should give you infromation of the harddrive. If there is no information of the harddrive then the problem there is the harddrive already.

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Try pressing Fn + F2 when witching between to monitors. You can choose to use the monitor of your laptop only going to monitor of your projector. You can also use both at the same time.

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Seems that the wireless signal is too weak, or may be you are connecting to a wireless network of a neighbor instead of your own. Check which wireless network is the preferred one & make sure it is yours.

You can also refer to the following article for some troubleshooting tips:
http://www.fixya.com/support/r6556655-troubleshooting_laptop_wifi_connectivity

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You my try to reinstall the driver first. Try to press Fn + F5 to toggle diable / enable the wireless adapter. If nothing happens then you need to call Lenovo Tech support at 18774536686 option 2 for repair.

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hi there, you wireless network card driver is probably not installed. check in control panel if your computer has detectde your wireless network card. got ot control panel then system then device manager and look for network adapters.make sure that wireless network card is installed there withot exclamation mark. if not present then reinstall the driver by using the driver disk that came with the system or going to the website http://consumersupport.lenovo.com. if installed, then try perssing Fn+F6 to enable/disbale your wireless card.

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reinstall drivers for your sound card.
1) go to start.
2) right clic on my computer
3) if you have vista or win.7 click on device manager and if you have windows xp, click on hardware and then and device manager.
4) once you get there. look for sound, video and game controllers and double click it to espand it.
5) it will depend on your sound card , but you will find something like high definicion audio. right click it and unistall.

warning! . just unistall it dont delete the driver sofware.

6) last step . reboot your computer and when the computer turn on automatically reload the divers again. if does not. just follow the steps 1-4 and just right click. and scan for hardware changes

hope this help.

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You can download the drivers here. Make sure you type in the correct type number which is located at the back of your computer.

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It seems that you laptop did not have the battery back up when the power was cut assuming that the battery was not charged or bad.
If so the laptop has crashed with a sudden cut off and could have damaged the hard disk in the PC.
If the set does not boot up even if the back up bios battery is good, then the possibility of the hard disk being faulty is high.