In 2011 I bought a Lenovo IdeaPad Z560 0914-3YU notebook. It had all the features I wanted and was a great price. The system is still fast but deciding I like Windows 8 better than 7 and I had a free licence I installed Windows 8.
Now because I ca’t find a drive for the ACPI-Compliant Virtual Power Controller, it will only run on AC.
So physically the laptop gets power but for the want of a piece of software the hardware does not function.
Just venting.
Try this one maybe? It’s the 64bit Win7 driver. There may not be a different driver for windows 8. You should contact whoever makes the software and ask them about it.
Thanks for the help but that didn’t work.
Did you make a backup? Why not just go back to Win7 and have a working laptop?
If you didn’t make a backup, chances are still good that you can just go back to Win7 by going through recovery mode. Almost all newer laptops have a separate partition with the whole factory setup ready to reinstall. If you have data that you don’t want to lose on it now, just copy it all off to somewhere before proceeding further.
Or are you for some reason deadset on Win8? (Because there are lots of people on 8 that would love to go back to 7, maybe you could trade with them, lol!)
Possible fix here
From this thread
http://208.74.204.134/t5/IdeaPad-Y-U-V-Z-and-P-series/Lenovo-IdeaPad-Z560-0914-3YU-Windows-8/td-p/1228187
If the above doesn’t work, what specifically happens when you try to install the Win7 driver? Does it not install, or just say it’s not available for your operating system?
If the latter, I had to work around this nonsense in order to upgrade to the latest Intel driver for my graphics card. You have to edit the config file to allow it to install on Windows 8 (6.2) and disable driver signature checking to make it work.