In my lenovo ideapad y510 notebook, when i lift the lid, i am hearing a crack sound everytime and also i have observed a crack mark in lower cover and separation of both the cases at hinge point. please solve

Hi,

I'm not sure if you're aware of this to be a known issue with Lenovo Y510. What you can do is to have the hinges replace. Lenovo offered free support for this issue because all Y510, for some reasons had this known problem and that is even though the computer was no longer under warranty. Unfortunately as I phoned them, they told me that the free repair has ended back in February 2010.

What I did was, I purchased a pair of hinges from www.lenovospareparts.com. I had it worked on by a local technician then because if I send it to their depot, I need to pay $80 initial payment plus the shipping plus the pay for the part and the labor.

The hinges just costs $18.17 plus the labor for the local tech was just $35, logically, I saved more and it just took 15 minutes for the local tech to replace it so he just asked me to wait and took my computer home.

Thank youfor visiting FixYa! We answer yourconcerns promptly for FREE. Please spare a few seconds toclick on YES button in return. Havea good one!