I is a dumbass.

All this time, I thought "RAID" stood for some arcane series of highly technical terms, forgetting that acronyms like "TWAIN" existed in the computer world.

Today's hands-on experience lesson:

The problem: After the user removed some old RAM from the computer, it beeps funkily on power-on and then yields nothing but a black screen. What's up with that?
( The answer... )