Brickwizard
Well-Known Member
What a bargain, the sellers had a glut of these machines with the I5-8525u CPU and 16gb Ram cost less than £100 usual price for a grade A re-furb one usually ranges from £180 -£220,,
It took me what seemed like hours [but was probably 30 minutes], to find the Quick start and secure boot, and switch them off, along with a few other BIOS adjustments [to suit my use of the machine], then I put the ISO USB drive in the left side port, switched on jiggled F10 and nothing it booted straight into W11, swapped to the rear USB port and tried again, and success Mint LMDE booted to test mode,, then installed without further issue, still have a few hours work to do swapping what files I can from the dead machine [I can still run the old drives from it using a sata-usb2 cable but it's a bit slow, and I have 4 drives full of stuff to sort and save, but hey I'm in no rush. [oops need to clean lens on camera before I next use it]
It took me what seemed like hours [but was probably 30 minutes], to find the Quick start and secure boot, and switch them off, along with a few other BIOS adjustments [to suit my use of the machine], then I put the ISO USB drive in the left side port, switched on jiggled F10 and nothing it booted straight into W11, swapped to the rear USB port and tried again, and success Mint LMDE booted to test mode,, then installed without further issue, still have a few hours work to do swapping what files I can from the dead machine [I can still run the old drives from it using a sata-usb2 cable but it's a bit slow, and I have 4 drives full of stuff to sort and save, but hey I'm in no rush. [oops need to clean lens on camera before I next use it]