Johannes de Wit

To add to @jayeff ‘s very helpful answer: I think the piece of metal Lauren is referring to might be the hinge connecting to the metal backplate. This might have come loose because it is only kept together by glue, which looses it’s strength after a while. It is a quite common problem for the Lenovo Yoga 500, 700, 900’s etc. A possible solution is to glue it back together using a strong epoxy, this however requires you to take off the screen itself. For further instructions please see WiredDan’s very helpful posts on Lenovo’s forum: Post explaining the problem: link. Post providing a solution: link.

For those having the same problem: It seems to be that the hinge connecting to the backcover often comes loose on these models since it is only glued together from the factory. The hinge then moves freely and pushes the screen forward whenever one tries to open the laptop. For a possible repair I would refer to these posts by WiredDan who explained the problem very nicely and provided a great solution on Lenovo’s forum: Post explaining the problem: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-Yoga-Series-Notebooks/Yoga-710-Screen-separating-in-bottom-right-hand-corner/m-p/4042656?page=1#4131270 Post providing the solution: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-Yoga-Series-Notebooks/Lenovo-Yoga-700-710-720-900-broken-hinge-cracked-screen-glass/m-p/4264992#M69807

Hi Victoria, I replaced the 8GB RAM stick with a single 16GB RAM stick and this does work!