Lenovo Thinkpad E450 – Windows 10 Noisy CPU Fan and eventual BSOD

The BSOD happens usually when I extend my display. I work better having at least 2 monitors. I am happy I was able to extend up to 3 monitors using USB to VGA adapter.

First of all here is my laptop specs
CPU – Intel Core I7 5500U Broadwell
Memory – 16 GB Ram
Storage – 480 GB SATA 3.0 SKS MLC SSD
Graphics – onboard Intel HD Graphics 5500

Solution:
Please follow this two fixes.
1. Disable AMD Driver at the device manager

2. Avoid toggling enable/disable of extended monitors using Intel Graphics software. My recommendation is when you need to toggle enable/disable monitors you need to turn off your laptop. Plug or unplug HDMI to follow.

I hope this helps for you!

Solid State Drive Upgrade

I wouldn’t need to spend my own savings for an upgrade that would be implemented on a company’s laptop but since I regularly spend at least 8 hours a day(even weekends) with it, I had to make a bold move.

Visual Studio 2013 is a pain on both loading forms with heavy number of controls and compiling.

I upgraded from a 960GB 5400 rpm stock harddrive to SKS NX200 SATA 480GBSSD. These are the numbers from crystaldiskmark.

HDD

SSD

Money spent is worth it.