Sorry, haven't been around since before the holidays, been busy with stuff, got a new ssd. Turned out the laptop fan had no airflow so it simply had overheated. New one seems ok so far. Unfortunately, at the same time all that was going on, my chemo started messing with my eyesight. A strange experience to say the least. Vision was different every day but was never actually able to work on laptop simply because I couldn't distinguish anything on it! For a few days I believe I had 20/20 vision, which I haven't had since before I was 11 yrs old. Anyway, eyesight seems ok today with reading glasses, so now I will need to undertake the task of restoring what I can. Will take much of the week. Thanks to all for your help, im sure these will work eventually, lol.
Desktop: i7 4770@3.4Ghz (passmark 9809), 12GB RAM, Win 10/64, GeForce GTX 1080 (passmark 12006), 1TB SSD, 1TB HDD; Laptop: i7 4800MQ@2.7Ghz, 16GB RAM, Win 10/64, GeForce GTX870M , 1TB SSD.