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My Lenovo V130-151kb laptop has a 128G M2 SATA drive, and internal connector for a second drive; but when I install a good unformatted 1TB HDD It goes to windows repair. Is there some trick to adding a second drive to this laptop?

Task manager (right click the taskbar) will show you the % on cpu, memory, disk & network No hard drive?

Why has no-one mentioned this? Pull the drive, backup your files on another machine; then format & reinstall.

Thanks Sian but I've already done that and updated the BIOS and deleted - reinstalled drivers. And SFC and DISM. Its a wierd one

You need to plan your cooling to maintain the required pressure inside the case, and minimise the power dissipation inside it. so you need to look at the specs of the fans their flow rates and pressure rating. Is the case sealed except for where fans are fitted? Are there any obstructions...

Do you observe the same problems when using a different browser eg edge or firefox?

Silly q - have you tried just connecting a single fan directly? I dont think it will progress further if it thinks there is no cpu fan.

Recently built a system with an ASUS Prime A320M-K mobo, A8 cpu M2 SSD & 8G RAM & installed Windows 10 home. Nowt but problems - its slow, wont reliably connect to ethernet, mouse freezes, turns back on following a shutdown ... No issues in BIOS, mouse works fine and no error beeps. Memtest86...