Trying to recoup from a very crappy day. Had insomnia and didn't get to sleep until around 3:45am-4am. Had to get up by no later than 7:30am because I had a Dell TS guy coming to replace a mobo in a new, yet problematic server. Starbucks was busy so I got to work a little late and he was waiting for me so I put my coffee and breakfast sammich in my cube and took him to the testbed area to work on the server. The location of the testbed area requires all visitors to be accompanied by someone. After about 3.5 hours, we discover that the replacement mobo is defective as well (bent pins on one of the cpu sockets). Well, there is no more replacement mobo in the region so they had to have it driven in from West VA. The tech comes back when the new mobo arrives around 2:40pm. We start swapping it out and mutha *expletive deleted* if this mobo doesn't have bent pins on BOTH cpu sockets. Also, discovered that someone bunged up one of the cpu heatsinks pretty good.
Anyway, this server was 1 of 2 that is supposed to be set up in a satellite office about 5 hours away. The other server was perfectly fine and was taken to the office last weekend. I've been fighting with this one for a 10 days and it's worse off now then when it started. Fourth replacement mobo is scheduled to get here on Monday.
Damn I'm glad it's the weekend.