The SSD started off being an effing fiasco, causes the HDD boot to fail to work. Thankfully it's all restored and working. Including the sound, which makes no sense since I broke the speaker thing off the

board, but whatever. All the drivers are now correct and appropriate. Running updates and will image onto the SSD (hopefully). New cooling pad seems to be a LOT better than the previous one.

All in all, I spent about $400 total (I splurged a bit on the SSD), but my computer's almost new again.

I call that a win.

woohoo!'

After many hours it is officially booting from the SSD.