Lenovo Legion Y520

Forum discussion tagged with Lenovo Legion Y520.
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    Question 5 key getting spammed despite disconecting the keyboard from the MB

    tl;dr: the "5" key keeps getting spammed on my laptop even after I disconnect the keyboard ribbon cable from the MB. Is this a keyboard problem or something else? So i have a Lenovo Legion Y520. Spilled like a spoon of water on the numpad. Dried it fast the best I could. Keyboard was acting...
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    Question Upgrading Lenovo Y520-15lkBM(Question)

    Hi there, I have been using my Lenovo Legion Y520-15lKBM for 2 years without any problem. But currently, I am facing free space issues, and that my RAM modules got about 2000 bad sectors last time I checked. So, need to upgrade my SSD to 1TB and my RAM to 32GB but I have no idea what models...
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    Discussion I ran into a SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION BSOD. Its been on the blue screen for an hour but I can't turn off my laptop.

    Hello. I am running a lenovo legion y520. It has worked fine for me since 2016. I have encountered another BSOD 2 years ago which cost some money to fix. My windows has been reset and everything worked fine up until a week ago when I started getting more BSODs with the same message. I didn't...
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    [SOLVED] Lenovo Legion Y520 randomly crashing / No BSOD

    Hello, My (2-year-old, WIN10) Lenovo Legion Y520 has been randomly crashing for the past week. It crashes at least once every day. I am not doing anything specific during times of crashes. It crashes with a high pitched noise with no blue screen. I have since cleaned the fans and checked the...
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    [SOLVED] Scam graphics card name on used laptops?

    Ok guys, so i just found a seller locally that selling an used lenovo y520 laptop with i7 7700hq and a gtx 1060 6gb ddr5 (as he said). But then when i ask him to send a photo of dxdiag, the displayed memory on the gtx 1060 shows only 1.9gb something ,maybe 2gb. So is it really a gtx 1060 or a...
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    Question Image Retention/Screen Ghosting on Lenovo Legion Y520

    Alright, so I got a quick question for you guys! I bought a Lenovo Legion Y520 in January 2019 and around June, I started seeing image retention. Or screen ghosting. Like, after staying a few minutes on a web page or literally anything that has white areas, after changing the image to gray (for...
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    Question The screen on my laptop has pink flickering lights

    Hello everyone, I guees I have a big problem now and I need your help. As I wrote in the title I'm having a problem with my Lenovo legion y520. It was a normal day for me, played some Battalion 1944, and then later that same day i needed to restart my laptop because i was reinstling some...
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    [SOLVED] 144hz issue

    hello so my freind has recently bought a 144hz monitor asus vg278he. And he owns a gaming laptop Legion Y520 Laptop. So the problem he is having is he cant connect a Display port or DVI cable into his laptop because it only has a HDMI. and the monitor only has a HDMI and DVI. Anyone know how...
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    [SOLVED] Extremely low fps after gaming for a while?

    Hey Guys, I have a question. I have checked many forum posts but none seem to fix my problem. I have an Lenovo legion Y520 gaming laptop (Intel I7, Nvidia 1060). I like to play rocket league and fortnite. However, say I play rocket league, it will be fine for 45-60 minutes, then after that it...
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    Question different brands same specs ram modules?

    Hi guys i have a one question, I have Lenovo y520-15ikbn with i5 7300hq, 1050ti 4gb aaand one stick of 8gb memory: model sk Hynix hma81gs6cjr8n-vk, ok now I want to update one more 8gb ram stick buuut i cant find same brand but I found this one mta8atf1g64hz-2g6e1, like, I compere in every...
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    [SOLVED] Unable to use 144HZ GTX 1050 from my laptop onto a new display!

    Hey guys and gals! I have a very specific problem and I'm going to try and explain it in a very brief way. First of, let me start with a sole fact that I have Lenovo Legion Y520 laptop, which has Intel HD 630 as integrated GPU and GTX 1050 4GB DDR5 as secondary GPU. Everything is working...
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    Question ACER KG251QF 144HZ OVER HDMI?

    hI, I am using a Lenovo y520 laptop with a graphic card of gtx 1050 ti 4gb which only has an HDMI out put (correct me if I'm wrong). I am planning to buy ACER KG251QF monitor which has 144hz refresh rate. Will I be able to get that 144hz refresh rate at 1080p over HDMI? If not is there...
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    slowly upgrading my computer.

    Hi guys, I'm slowly upgrading my computer. which is an i5 6600 (non-K) I used to have 8gb of ram and just recently upgraded that to a 16gb and also used to have 120gb of SSD which is now a 500gb. As you may see, it kinda looks that my PC is on a dead end now and im not sure on how long can this...