Category: Repairs

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Useful tips for repairing or upgrading your notebook

I have opened my notebooks many times, and did various repairs or upgrades on them. During these processes I have learnt a lot of lessons which I thought I would share in this article. If you are looking to add more RAM, repaste your CPU or perform repairs or upgrades...

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YOGA C630 WOS Battery Replacement

The battery in my YOGA C630 WOS was acting weird. The maximum charge was varying every single time, and sometimes it just would not charge to 100%. I thought it might be a software/firmware problem that should get fixed, but updates came and the problems persisted. It was time to...

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Legion Y530: Adding a HDD afterwards

The Legion Y530 can come with either one or two storage drives. It supports one M.2 SSD and one 2.5″ SATA drive. Thinking about getting one with the M.2 SSD only, and adding the 2.5″ drive later? This is the article for you! The drive options in the Legion Y530...

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Legion Y530: RAM upgrade and maximum supported memory

If you find yourself in need for more RAM for your Legion Y530, can you update it yourself? Is it difficult? How much memory does the Legion Y530 support anyway? RAM upgrade? I ended up ordering a Legion Y530 that only contained 8GB of memory. As the machine is destined...