I've been having a horrid month with hardware.  For what happened and why I didn't think of how to solve this, I'll deduct 50 nerd points from myself.  This is something I should have been able to solve myself.

SO yes, I did have my laptop on, plugged in, but it wouldn't turn on, it would just beep at me.  I had my new RAM in it for a few days too and it worked great.  Better than great actually.  But all of a sudden, it just stopped working for no reason that I could tell.

Mike, the IT guy in my building quickly realized it after he got back from vacation.  The problem was I called MS tech support since he was on vacation so a new system board was ordered.  All that happened was my RAM became unseated (not plugged in correctly).  So in the future, if your laptop starts beeping at you after you installed new ram, see if it became unseated.