Man, I had a bad stick of ram once, that was so frustrating.
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oh…the best part on that one was its was proprietary…the one word a PC builder hates worse than satan 
There was no getting a replacement part.
I steer people away from anything proprietary when possible.
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That all sounds incredibly daunting to me right now given my situation. Once this is all settled, suffice to say im going to be terrified to touch my computer for a very long time.
I have a DxDiag here, when I tried to get help for this issue.
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yeah…those are funny when theyre just starting to go bad…but aint yet
Ramm checks out…what else could it be?
Three days later…yep…it was the ramm
Just go to amazon, SSD are really cheap, I suggest aiming for a 1TB imo, well worth it.
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Think of how difficult it would be to debug this: reapplication of thermal paste after 5 years.
Everything works perfectly. You go to turn on your PC one day and its boots up then turns itself off. Over and over and over…
Until I just took the whole thing apart and reassembled it. Reapplying thermal paste is the only thing I could think of doing that made the difference.
It was brand new too.
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oh dear god. 
so youre not even thinking that might be a problem.
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nope, when every part is new (it was a new build) and it could be ANYTHING, hell, this was when we had jumpers… was there a jumper set wrong?
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Reminds me of IDE and how misconfiguring drive chains could screw things up… don’t miss it at all
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oh those jumpers. I can remember swearing to Odin trying to figure out where the right one was …and do you remember how some games required like nearly ALL for your 640 base memory and you had to make a flipping boot disk to play them just to try to squeeze out another 5k ?
Plug n play, one of the best things to happen to pc, next to IEEE standards
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For the future, if you ever need a solid tool to help you pick new parts that will work with your current system, I trust this site
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/
I’m sure others on here have ones they prefer too; not saying mine is better in anyway 
Edit: Tool for desktop PCs, not laptop.
My memory ain’t THAT good, too much fun in my 20s lol
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It sounds daunting but it’s just a bunch of fancy words.
SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) is just a kind of cable that plugs into your motherboard. Both regular hard drives and the older style of SSDs use it. They’re really simple - you plug the drive into your SATA port on your motherboard, and you plug in the power cable from your power supply into your drive. SSDs don’t have moving parts and many modern PC cases have all sorts of places where you can mount an SSD.
M.2 (which I don’t think means anything?) doesn’t even have cables. It just slots right into the motherboard, on newer motherboards (starting in maybe 2014 or so). Sometimes they share bandwidth with other slots on the motherboard, as a way to save money. Chances are that if you don’t have a lot of stuff on your motherboard, you can just plug an M.2 drive in and start using it right away.
No, it isn’t technically required. Yes, you should get one.
Like seriously. Get one. Thank us later.
The aggravating part is that they just put this out. It would have been nice to know before everyone in the house started school again and needs the cpu running Like a freight truck.
Not really. The FAQ was last updated 4 weeks ago and its been out for a lot longer (I believe since it was officially up for preorder). The SSD part has been there from the start.
Are there any brands of SSDs one should steer clear of?