Steve Ballmer must hate his life. His company builds this software, they then hand it to these bozos at Lenovo, and all of a sudden shit happens.
Latest problem.
The Lenovo Ideapad y500 has a dual SLI configuration for its 3D hardware. The problem with an SLI configuration is that it consumes a lot of power. I mean a lot of power.
To actually get the graphics hardware to run you need 170W power-supply.
Which is fine.
If you don’t need the graphics card, then 90W power supply will do just fine. And that is great. Because a 90W power supply costs 25$ these days and you can have several in your house.
And so here’s where the shit hits the fan. Last night I used a 90W power supply because I never paid attention to the 170W power requirements of my graphics cards.
And I spent two hours trying to figure out why my laptop was suddenly dropping frames, etc.
It was the frigging power supply.
Now I ask, why oh why, could Lenovo’s hardware monitors not just tell me that the problem was the power-supply? A simple warning? A notification? Something?
But no. Nothing.