Repair help MacBook Pro 17-Inch Core i5 2.53ghz Mid-2010

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I'm trying to repair an old MacBook Pro 17 inch for an elderly person. It's in excellent condition and has enough power for their basic browsing and word/excel. I'm not an Apple user so hardly an expert by any means.

The Mac is running Snow Leopard 10.6 with a dual boot into Windows 7 and they only used the Windows side. It recently started freezing and/or blue screens frequently in Windows. I figure the first thing to try is replace the HDD as it's still using the original spinning disk HDD (SSD ordered which will arrive soon).

I'm wondering will I be able to get Windows 10 on the machine. Booted into MacOS and used the Boot camp tool to remove the Windows 7 partition. Downloaded the Windows 10 ISO onto a bootable usb drive but the Boot Camp setup tool can only use the DVD drive, unfortunately the Windows 10 ISO is too large to fit on a standard 4.7Gb DVD.

I checked for MacOS updates but nothing available even though the laptop meets High Sierra 10.13 specifications. I think I read somewhere that High Sierra can use a USB for dual boot setup. I'm not sure what to try next?
 
ChrisD. said:
Software update only provides updates for the latest patches for the currently installed OS. You'd have to download the High Sierra ISO, usually this would be done in the App Store however Apple may have pulled it so you'd have to acquire it. There are a few tools that can do this and I think there is a native command line way but unsure of support on an older OS.
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Ok I think I've found a link to High Sierra 10.6.1 on uubyte, no idea if it's proper but will try once the SSD arrives tomorrow.

In the meantime I got a bit curious created the partition for Windows 10 and then tried to boot up with the Windows 10 boot usb stick in. It shows up as a selectable boot device so I thought what harm could it do to try it?! Needless to say it didn't work, went to black screen eventually with "insert bootable device" message after a while. And now somehow it's managed to screw with the Mac partition because when I try to boot into MacOS it just freezes on the white screen as it's loading!
 
ChrisD. said:
Sounds as if the HDD in it has had it to be fair, Windows or Mac won't make a difference.
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Changing the hdd didn't help, it's still locking up during boot up. Around 10-15 seconds after showing the white screen it'll freeze.

On one odd occasion I got an error message up on the screen:
"TLB Invalidation IPI Timeout: CPU(s) failed to respond to interrupts, unresponsive CPU bitmap...."

I've tested the RAM so I don't think that's the problem. I think the next thing I'll try is reapply thermal paste to the CPU.
 
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