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Laptop: Dell Inspiron 15" 5558 (2015) The power button on this laptop became stuck for seemingly no reason. I tore down the laptop according to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RV-N2sxVbg I made it to the power button assembly and unscrewed the screw holding the board down but can't really figure out what is preventing the button from being pressed. I unscrewed and screwed it back in multiple times with varying tightness, the button still wouldn't press. So then I had the thought that a small washer that fell out of the board when I was disassembling it might go on top of the actual button on the circuit. So I tried putting the washer underneath the button when I screwed the board back in, and the button did press a little bit this time, but not as much travel as normal and it stopped pressing after only one press. So then I rubbed the washer with a glue stick and tried again. This time the button seems to have slightly more travel when it clicks, though still not as much as there should be, but it is still pressing after several presses. I don't want to risk putting the whole laptop back together again in case the washer will easily come loose. I considered ordering a new power button assembly from eBay but I don't think the button on the circuit is broken, just whatever is supposed to press it is. Right now I'm not really sure what to do. If anyone has any advice or suggestions on this it would be greatly appreciated. Power button assembly Underside of assembly, gold thing is the button that interacts with the plastic power button. Back of power button Washer that might be for the button Front of power button

I had problems with stability with my Ryzen 2600 system as well, initially using the same RAM as you are. For my system the cause was that I was overclocking the RAM to 3200 Mhz on a B350-f motherboard, and it really didn't like that. I would get random crashes, games would crash, the system would pause for a few seconds, and eventually I found out that the RAM had become corrupted because when I ran memtest there were many errors, even at lower frequencies. I guess I had should have never tried to OC on that motherboard. But anyway it seems like you don't have any of these problems, usually for something like this I wold suggest testing the RAM but if you already did and there no errors, I'm not really sure what could be the problem. Maybe try reinstalling Windows?

Interesting. I have similar stuttering problems but last for less than that, but I think what is happening with me is the frame rate is dropping momentarily. This happens to me in every game, and is probably because my RAM is corrupt. (You can see my post about this if you click on my profile) Have you pressed F3 to observe the frame rate while this happens? And exactly what RAM are you using? (what brand, and if it's Ryzen specific) I doubt the amount of RAM is a problem, at least not for Minecraft, unless you have other programs open at the same time and there's not enough for the game.

I set it manually. I'll try to use DOCP and see what speed it sets the RAM to.

One thing I know for sure is that all this conversation about heatsinks is completely irrelevant. Any decent desktop RAM is going to have an adequate heatsink.

I am using the recommended slots, A2 and B2.

I bought the RAM new and used BIOS to change the frequency. The BIOS was up to date at the time ( a few months ago) but there's probably a new version now that makes it compatible with Ryzen 3rd gen. I don't think this would solve any problems considering the RAM is already corrupt, and nothing will fix that.

Ryzen 5 2600 Asus Rog Strix B350-F 16GB (2x8) 3000 MHz Corsair Vengeance LPX MSI GTX 1070Ti 1TB WD Blue SSD I was running my 3000MHz RAM at 3200MHz for a few months and would frequently experience games crashing, or the whole system crashing, mostly during gaming. Sometimes the system would slow down significantly and produce a few beeps when just loading a simple program like a web browser, then would return to normal after a couple seconds. I didn't know what was causing this until I was running Memtest in preparation for using DRAM Calculator for Ryzen to figure out the highest frequency I could overclock my RAM to, and thus, CPU, and Memtest showed multiple errors. I ran it to 400% at 3200MHz and there were A LOT of errors. So I thought that maybe my motherboard wasn't good enough to overclock the RAM to 3200MHz (Even though the manual says it can) and that was causing system instability. So I changed the frequency to the stock 3000 MHz and ran Memtest again and there were less errors than before but still a lot. Then I ran Memtest to 400% on every frequency down to 2666MHz and there were still errors. So after some research I determined that my RAM must have been corrupted somehow, because that would explain the errors on every frequency. After more research I thought it might be possible that because my RAM was not optimized for Ryzen it became corrupted. Vengeance LPX is listed as being compatible with Ryzen 2nd gen but it is not optimized for it like some RAM is. But I can't find conclusive proof on this. It's a popular choice for RAM, and I've seen lots of people saying they are running it with no problem, even at the same frequencies I was. So right now I am just trying to figure out how this happened in the first place. If anyone has any insight on this or had experience with something similar your help would be appreciated. Note: I know that motherboard won't be able to overclock the CPU that much or at all, but I did not know that when I built this PC because I didn't know much about overclocking. I plan on upgrading to an R5 3600 later this year, which will require faster RAM, which will require a new motherboard, so I will be replacing these parts anyway.