second time it finished booting, I got to the main screen, was about to start my obligatory downloading of programs when it bluescreened again

was on the main screen about 30 seconds

it has now bluescreened 4 times this is not an isolated incident lol

bluescreen while running diagnostic

me: well they have a customer service number, maybe instead of trying to solve this myself I can call them,

they only open mon through Fri 9 to 5

fraking hell

.....so like it started working,

and that just scares me more

because afaik I didn't do anything

.... it crashed again

I downloaded waterfox,

got to ublock origin,

waterfox freaked out and just closed

I opened it back up and the computer blue screened

what the hell

that definitely sounds like some piece of hardware is defective

damn I'm trying to update my drivers, got an the way through installing Nvidia's shitty program when it blue screens

and then blue screen immediately upon boot this time

I have lost count of the number of times this has bsod

Yeah that's defective you need a replacement

fingers crossed I may have fixed it