oh, and as for the motherboard, i received a reply on the return ticket for it and i'll ship it for RMA tomorrow. it'll probably still be a week or more until it gets back, so squirrel-chan's fuck-up hour is on hiatus until i get my desktop running again, which sucks and I really hate it but there's no feasible way I can stream out of this laptop (plus I don't have the OBS scene setups here)