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Zogo
Jul 29, 2003

Voyager I posted:

This machine was purchased refurbished from the Lenovo Outlet and came with its operating system preloaded. We do not have access to our own copy of the operating system.

If you have the key I'd download the ISO and reinstall the OS:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows8ISO

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Zogo
Jul 29, 2003

Voyager I posted:

We turned it back on today out of morbid curiosity and it was able to complete its Windows install. It went back to blackscreening on load afterwards, but safe mode works again. Does this call for attempting less drastic measures?

Doing some kind of repair/recovery install might work but if I was in your situation I'd do a clean install of 8.1 followed immediately by an upgrade to W10 while it's still free.

Zogo
Jul 29, 2003

Yea, I thought they were all 25 but IDK.

Zogo
Jul 29, 2003

I'd check GPU and CPU temperatures using:

http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
http://www.hwinfo.com/download.php

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