1. Yes, opening the lid.

2. In dmesg, I see a ton of 
[52698.053359] pcieport 0000:00:1d.0: AER: Corrected error received: id=00e8
[52698.053373] pcieport 0000:00:1d.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Corrected, type=Data Link Layer, id=00e8(Transmitter ID)
[52698.053383] pcieport 0000:00:1d.0:   device [8086:a118] error status/mask=00001000/00002000
[52698.053389] pcieport 0000:00:1d.0:    [12] Replay Timer Timeout  

repeating  over and over.

3. lspci -k
hangs the system for several seconds. then:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 05)
	Subsystem: Dell Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Skylake PCIe Controller (x16) (rev 05)
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
	Kernel modules: shpchp
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 591b (rev 04)
	Subsystem: Dell Device 07be
	Kernel driver in use: i915
	Kernel modules: i915
00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Skylake Processor Thermal Subsystem (rev 05)
	Subsystem: Dell Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor Thermal Subsystem
	Kernel driver in use: proc_thermal
	Kernel modules: processor_thermal_device
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H USB 3.0 xHCI Controller (rev 31)
	Subsystem: Dell Sunrise Point-H USB 3.0 xHCI Controller
	Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
00:14.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H Thermal subsystem (rev 31)
	Subsystem: Dell Sunrise Point-H Thermal subsystem
	Kernel driver in use: intel_pch_thermal
	Kernel modules: intel_pch_thermal
00:15.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H Serial IO I2C Controller #0 (rev 31)
	Subsystem: Dell Sunrise Point-H Serial IO I2C Controller
	Kernel driver in use: intel-lpss
	Kernel modules: intel_lpss_pci
00:15.1 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H Serial IO I2C Controller #1 (rev 31)
	Subsystem: Dell Sunrise Point-H Serial IO I2C Controller
	Kernel driver in use: intel-lpss
	Kernel modules: intel_lpss_pci
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H CSME HECI #1 (rev 31)
	Subsystem: Dell Sunrise Point-H CSME HECI
	Kernel driver in use: mei_me
	Kernel modules: mei_me
00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 31)
	Subsystem: Dell Sunrise Point-H SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
	Kernel driver in use: ahci
	Kernel modules: ahci
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H PCI Express Root Port #1 (rev f1)
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
	Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H PCI Express Root Port #2 (rev f1)
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
	Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H PCI Express Root Port #9 (rev f1)
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
	Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1d.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H PCI Express Root Port #13 (rev f1)
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
	Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1d.6 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H PCI Express Root Port #15 (rev f1)
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
	Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H LPC Controller (rev 31)
	Subsystem: Dell Sunrise Point-H LPC Controller
00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H PMC (rev 31)
	Subsystem: Dell Sunrise Point-H PMC
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation CM238 HD Audio Controller (rev 31)
	Subsystem: Dell CM238 HD Audio Controller
	Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
	Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H SMBus (rev 31)
	Subsystem: Dell Sunrise Point-H SMBus
	Kernel modules: i2c_i801
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] (rev a1)
	Subsystem: Dell GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile]
	Kernel driver in use: nouveau
	Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau
02:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 32)
	Subsystem: Bigfoot Networks, Inc. QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
	Kernel driver in use: ath10k_pci
	Kernel modules: ath10k_pci
03:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS525A PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Dell RTS525A PCI Express Card Reader
	Kernel driver in use: rtsx_pci
	Kernel modules: rtsx_pci
04:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Device 1c5c:1283
	Subsystem: Device 1c5c:0000
	Kernel driver in use: nvme


when i try to copy the text in terminal, it hung again for a second or so.