I originally bought the laptop online knowing that the lighting effects were not working, I've been a computer engineer for 30 years and was sure with a bit of effort I could work it out. The fault was the classic - with the unknown USB device in device manager, the .

So I recently got my X51 and I'm loving it. I splurged a bit and got the blu-ray drive in hopes of playing blu-rays on my computer. The computer shipped with Cyberlink PowerDVD 10. Well, I popped in The Hobbit and it simply wouldn't play.

My laptop is having an issue where it boots up and then it freezes for about 2-4 minutes before you can actually use it. What I mean is when I turn the system on, it goes through boot sequence and passes the welcome screen.