Understanding that this was a renewed item I knew going into this what to expect. After plugging it in and starting up, my first problem arose... would not post. No worries, I will go thru the trouble shooting.Clean install of windows - took longer than it should pointing to something wrong with hard driveChecked cable ribbon and reseated it. Problem persisted.Pulled the battery and cleared CMOS then reseated the batteryPulled SSD and replaced with spareClean install of windows - BAM! She's ALIVE!After checking the SSD with benchmark tool, I found the SSD also to be "renewed" and had almost 10k hours on it. Not a bad thing, but in my case too many cells had been used up.$30ish for a new SSD fixed my issue and I am happy with my purchase.