Video playback problems on the Lenovo y50

[lucenttech]

Hi everyone I'm pretty new to the LinusTechTips forum and I came here for help and ideas for my Lenovo y50. When I got this laptop I was really exicted about getting it. I got to replace my old 510p because it had problems with everything basically, but anyway when ever I play videos either flash videos like youtube or even movies or tv shows I have stored on my hard drive on the y50 the videos would lag for a second. On Flash videos the picture would freeze for a moment but the sound would play and for my personal videos the whole video would stop sound and picture for like a second also. For me it's really noticeable and it kind of annoys me. I haven't even had the laptop for long and there are these problems that I can't find solutions for it. The worst part is that it happen right after I got it and used it for the first time. I tried looking online to see what the problem is, but it doesn't seem like people post about it so I'm not sure. I even called Lenovo for help but that didn't really work out. If someone could help I would really appreciate it. It frustrating when a new laptop does this.

 

If it helps it's the 59421847 model on lenovo and I tried Chrome Firefox and Explorer for my web browsers.

 

Thank you for the help in advance.

 

[Enderman]

make sure that 'hardware acceleration' is enabled in your browser settings

or if it is, try disabling it and see what happens

[lucenttech]

I have tried both and it doesn't seem to help it still does the same thing and for my videos on my harddrive I tried different codex packs and vlc and I still can't find the problem

[Malodorous]

Hi, I know its late but this is still a top google search for "Lenovo y50 hard drive lag" so i figured I post the answer. Its the harddrive and the motherboard. There is an error that is generated every 10-30 seconds causing games, video, flash all to lag for a 1/2 a second. Specifically its the WD 1TB w/ 8gb sd.  There is no way to fix this problem other than replacing the harddrive. Do yourself a favor and get a SSD, your system will smoke.