[YBA] Lenovo z580 BISO setup horror story

[Jonathan Ben Avraham]

Dear Colleagues,
I recently purchased a Lenovo Z580 Ideapad from Macsanei Hashmal.

I replaced the 750GB HD with a 240GB SSD and installed Squeeze. The 
installation succeeded but I was unable to log out - had to hold power 
button to force off.

Same story with Wheezy.

Installed Ubuntu 12.04. Seemed to work fine but I am too old to deal wuth 
Unity, so I installed Mint Xfce.

After installing Mint I am not able to get into the BIOS setup menu no 
matter what I press, either the main power key or the "recovery" key, 
whether F2 or F12, I always get to a limited boot menu that is not 
editable.

If I connect an ethernet cable, it tries to PXE, then TFTP boot until I 
press escape - not so secure.

Can't find the CMOS battery if there is one and can't find service 
documentation that would tell me where it is.

Re-installed the original 750GB HD and booted into Windows 7 Home Edition. 
Downloaded new BIOS from support.lenovo.com but it wont install.

I guess I should have purchased ASUS.

  - yba


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