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I went to turn on my computer this morning and as it was booting I noticed that it wasn't quite the same as it usually is. First of all when you initially turn it on there was a small A2 in the bottom right. Then it showed a screen that says "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot...

If I were in your shoes I would keep a couple of the components, like the Optical Drive, Ram, HDD, SSD(depending on if it is fixable), and GPU, and buying a new Mobo, and possibly new CPU.

Honestly you don't need a particularly high end CPU for what he needs. It comes more down to how much he wants to spend.

Do you have an optical drive or a hard drive? If so it could pretty easily push you past that 550W rating on your PSU, which would explain the crashes, although I don't know about the driver updates slowing it down.

Have you tried setting up a bootable usb drive with a linux OS on it and seeing if you still can't access the internet?

Can you connect when in safe mode?

It would probably be simplest just to return it, depending on whether or not you have a warranty and whether or not you would violate it by attempting modifications. If you are set in fixing it yourself then you should start with system restore to see if it is a software issue. If it continues I...

Have you tried to use Boot Manager and disabling the launch of anything that you are unsure of when the computer starts?

Try a different Gpu in your computer and see if that works. If your gpu is faulty it could cause the crash, but I am not sure about the fans.

I recently started looking into bitcoin mining, and I was wondering if it was possible to set up a computer cluster and utilize the power of many CPUs to mine bitcoin at a faster rate than most ASIC machines being released nowadays.