Server damaged in shipping: should I be worried?
I bought a Dell R740xd online for my home lab, but it arrived damaged. It looks like the box was dropped on the corner and the front ear is pretty messed up. The vendor says they will send me a new “front panel of the server, complete with ears”, but I am a little concerned for other damage. Shipping it all back would be a pain but I paid way too much money for it for it to be a dud in 6 months. Anyone have experience with this?
It boots up and seems healthy in terms of memory and hard drives. It warns in iDRAC that there is a fault with an inlet temperature sensor… anyone know if replacing the “front panel” would fix this?