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[camwyn]

Possibly the sweetest words I have ever heard from one of my bosses, barring marching orders to places I was desperately needed for the Red Cross:

"This is already two years behind schedule, so a few more days won't hurt anything. This process started before you ever got to this company. Don't worry about it."

Translation: Back to wiping and reinstalling the recalcitrant server, but I know the executive VP- who's married to the coder that's been the one with the most at stake in the SQL/Frontpage department- knows I'm doing all I can and that this isn't me being grossly incompetent after all.

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[silveraspen]

Oh, good. I am so glad that your boss thought to tell you that, and particularly right now.

That's a lovely upward turn of events. :) Keep on hanging in there.

[camwyn]

It gets better.

I was attempting to wipe the drives and reinstall Windows, like it says in the post. Funny thing, though... when the computer got to the mandatory reboot, it couldn't detect any of the drives.

ANY.

I had to power it on and off about six times before it would detect. At that point I called HP, and we ran a diagnostic, and we found hardware failures.

The tech's coming with parts on Tuesday, after I get back from my day off. This is so not my problem! There's a hardware problem! It's a backplane! I don't have to fuss over it over the weekend because I can't fix the part, so it's not my fault! Yay!

[jjloa.livejournal.com]

Double yay!

yay for bosses that understand and YAY for the 'hey, I'm not just missing something, it's totally not anything in my scope'outcome.

I know when that happens, part of me wishes it had been figured out earlier, but all of me is just so happy that all my 'what can I be missing??' questions have been 'nothing. it's not you' :)