Last night my server was down for a few hours for an upgraded — ordered a new motherboard and processor, with the idea being to upgrade the processor from a 750mhz to a 1.4ghz Athlon, and then next month bump the memory up to 1.5 gig (oh, and a throw in a 15K SCSI drive too, just for the heck of it).
But the hardware curse struck again. Over the past few years, every time I’ve decided to go ahead with an upgrade to the hardware, one or another of the parts ends up coming in nonfunctional. Doesn’t seem to matter who the parts are ordered from, something is almost guaranteed not to work.
In this case it looks like the motherboard is probably defective and will have to be returned.
On the other hand, other than that yesterday was a pretty fine day for me, so I’m just taking it in stride.