petedk

Yes, it Corei5 8th gen. Yes, I will

No, I didn't do a system back up. As I mentioned my plan was to buy SSD drive, extra ram and do the work at home, where of course I would have done a disk image. The guy in the shop offered to do the whole thing for 500 baht, so I agreed. I expected him simply to do the same. Make a disk image either as a back up or by copying from the hard drive.

I didn't want to leave it with him, but after 2.5 hours of waiting I had to leave. As I said I was going to add the extra RAM (remove the old 8 GB and add a 12 GB) and slot in the SSD drive myself. I really believed it was a 10 minute job. I was quite happy to ditch the old hard drive, and I am not sure what he did when he started reformatting it. Anyway, I have just noticed that I still need a hard reset after a longer shutdown. I am beginning to wonder if there is a fault with the SSD drive although I ran Lenovo Vantage and all was well. Time for a clean install!

Yes, I must admit I thought about doing a clean install. I backed up my data last week, so I am ok with that.

Yes, I saw the SSD drive listed in the boot sequence, but diabled the USB anyway. Maybe I should enable it, just in case I need it in the future. .

windows 24H2 build26100.3476 It seems it is Windows Pro, whereas before I used Windows home. I can see the product key has been activated, but I really don't know if it a pirate copy or not. I prefer to have a genuine version.

I went into the BIOS and disabled "usb boot" All the options in "power settings" were set to "sleep" and I have now changed to "shut down". I closed the laptop down and restarted immediately. All went well. I'll try again later today, but thanks a lot for your help

Lenovo Ideapad 330S

I will try. I'll let you know how it goes

Thanks I'll have a look at the power settings later when I get 10 minutes to myself. My hard reset is holding the power button down for about 20 seconds with the charger disconnected. I actually checked BIOS and drivers for updates before I upgraded, but as the shop installed a new version of Windows maybe I should check again. I stood next the guy for for about 2 hours (I hate when they start changing too many settings) and later when I came back he told me that it would be some time and that he could send the laptop to me. Later, he told me that he had installed a new version of Windows ( together with quite a bit of software that I never use.)

I shut it down via Windows shutdown. When I try to power on , nothing happens unless I do a hard reset.

I wanted to upgrade my laptop by replacing the hard drive with an SSD card and add more RAM and at first planned to do it by myself, but as I had it with me when buying the components I asked the shop to do it for me for 500 Baht. Surprisingly, it took them nearly all day and they re-installed a new copy of Windows plus extra software that I don't need. Anyway, now whenever I start it up I have to do a hard restart, otherwise nothing happens. Any ideas as to why? and what I can do about it. I don't want to spend a whole day going back to the shop just yet.

1. Fully loaded with stone! I watched lorries on a building site near here and when they carried stones or mud they were only half full. 2. Lost its brakes. I hope they find them soon so that the authorities can check as to why they didn't work. 😁

This is an April fool's joke, right?

So suddenly we won't see these huge adverts for soda water any more. I am sure the breweries spend more on promoting soda water than they actually earn on selling it.