New Support Drivers & Downloads for IdeaPads [ Edited ]

[KalvinKlein Community Moderator]

Quick overview & found : use IdeaPad driver matrix page ::

http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/research/hints-or-tips/detail.page?&LegacyDocID=NOTE-MATRIX

if your device is not in the matrix, you can go  now for all Lenovo products  http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/ (same in all countrys)

1) select drivers & downloads -->choice box opened ....

http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/default.page?

2) Find Product -->Laptop & Netbooks-> select Ideapad Y-or U or  V or Z Series Netbooks ->IdeaPad  xxx ->All machine types-- continue-->all OS--go

regards KalvinKlein

[derekdoom]

I Kalvin, could you explain this a littler better? I'm not sure what your post is supposed to communicate?

[gtklocker]

There's a major problem with the site. On 

http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/default.page, whatever I select, when I click on SUBMIT, I get:

"Product is not selected! Please select your product."

I could, though, access the driver site for Y560 through the driver matrix, and found out that the bad drivers for Y560 (i.e. the GPU driver) haven't been updated at all.

[KalvinKlein Community Moderator]

usage IdeaPad driver matrix page

Step 1:

http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/research/hints-or-tips/detail.page?&LegacyDocID=NOTE-MATRIX

Step 2:  Next scroll a half page down

... you will see the driver table as overview shown below

Step 3: choose your system with left or right click i.e. Y560

next you got the whole driver table ...

Step 4 : Click the category and operating system below to quickly jump to the driver you need...

regards KalvinKlein

[thoral]

For Ideapads there does not exist a tool like SystemUpdate for Thinkpads. But: is there some tool available just to check if there are updates / new driver versions available? It would be quiet annoying to check this from time to time manually.

Thorsten

[bluebird91]

hello kalvin. may i just ask.. when updating drivers, it's supposed to be safer to create a restore point first before proceeding with the update.. if i do so, will it affect the one key recovery feature? i mean, i don't want to alter any data on the one key recovery feature's backup.

[bluebird91]

also, nvidia prompted me to updated my driver.. is it okay if i download it from their site or do i have to look for it in lenovo drivers?

[hellwalker]

is it only or support pages lag so much its impossible to get to download page?

[MENINBLK]

Bluebird91,

I use nVidia's drivers for my Y580 w/GeForce GTX 660M.

They install without any problems and can be detected automatically by the nVidia website.

Pete...

[aldoaoa]

The ideapad U400 drivers are not working at all :/