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Haha, well at least the title got your attention Does anyone have any comments around the Lenovo device I found?

My girlfriends laptop (of approximately 6 years) has finally stopped working. The laptop was a Dell Studio 1558 (I'll post the specs below). Dell Studio 1558 Specs: So I am now on the hunt for a suitable replacement for this laptop, but with so many different recommendations and reviews I thought I'd look for some suggestions for replacements. The replacement will be used for normal word processing, updating websites and social media, storing photos and music and light gaming (The Sims, Civ5 etc). I'm looking to meet the following specs: CPU: Intel i5 HDD: 1TB (Hybrid SSHD drive) Display resolution: 1920x1080 DVD-RW Decent build quality Budget: £300 - £600 (but can tweak for the right device). While I know that pretty much anything on the market now should be vastly superior to a 6 year old laptop, I am drowning in a sea of possibilities with my current front runner being the Lenovo B51-80.

So finally managed to get home and try some of the suggestions: As this was just moving components between cases no software was missing not that I could get into Windows (the whole point of this post) to install anything if it was missing. Next, just to appease your curiosity the first thing I tried was to remove all but the power and display connections which immediately failed during boot as the system got upset without a keyboard so I attached that too. However once those three items were added, I managed to load Ubuntu but when switching back to Windows 10 I suffered the same crash. Moving on, I removed all the PCI cards, disconnected the cables and removed the CPU to re-seat it. Added the CPU cooler and GFX card and tried again - and the good news is - it worked! So I've spend the evening re-adding components one by one to see if I could find the cause of the problem, but the issue has not occurred again. So sadly I have nothing else other than reseating the CPU that did it. Though with the groves cut so the CPU can only fit one way securely I've no idea what I could have done to seat it so badly... Thanks very much for the help!

Yes I can access the BIOS without any issues, all the components (CPU, RAM, GFX) are being detected and all the temperatures are looking normal as are the fan speeds. I'll add re-seating the CPU to my checks as well as I am still hoping its a stupid mistake I have missed rather than dead hardware.

I was feeling inspired by various LinusTechTips videos and reviews that I felt like my PC case needed an upgrade (as did my cable management). I also wanted to get a better WiFi solution, upgrading from an old USB dongle. Everything arrived on the weekend so I took all my components out of my old case (placing them on an anti-static mat while wearing the anti-static wrist strap too). I took this opportunity to remove the CPU cooler (a Prolimatech Megahalems), clean off and replace the thermal paste and re-attach the CPU cooler. Having done this I then continued to put everything into my new Fractal Design Define R5 case. Once all installed, I tidied the cables into the best cable management I have ever done and put it back in place ready to turn on. System booted up and said the CPU had changed, no doubt because I had removed and re-seated it while changing the thermal paste. So after going through the BIOS and restarting, I managed to get through the POST screen and onto the Windows 10 splash screen with the spinning dots. Then it happened - the spinning dots stopped as soon as they appeared and after 2 minutes the system rebooted got back to the Windows 10 splash screen, this happened a few times before the automatic repair kicked in and again, the spinning dots stop and the system reboots without getting into the repair. For a clearer picture, here is a video: https://youtu.be/Y9zmMhlad2k System specs: Troubleshooting so far: I'm confident this is unlikely going to be an issue with the SSD as the various different boot attempts failed, so am left thinking either there is a lose cable shorting things and I need to undo some of the cable management to find it or part of the system (likely motherboard or RAM) is dead. Hoping you all can give me some ideas as I really want to get back to playing XCOM 2, Fallout 4 and Rise of the Tomb Raider!