WORD TO THE WISE: if your laptop has faulty soldered-in ram, and has had faulty ram for over three years, and said faulty ram came from overzealous skyrim modding, expect it to throw a fit while processing the maximum allowance of fallout new vegas plugins. a "clean reinstall of windows" kinda fit. a "fry the installation media usb so you gotta make another one" kinda fit. a "THAT WAS MY WHOLE AFTERNOON" kinda fit.