My main workstation at the office, Ryoko, is slowly dying. Because the IDE chain has completely failed, replacing the motherboard has become necessary. You can’t get a motherboard without also picking up a processor and RAM, so that’s exactly what I did.

After some shopping at CDW (we have a corporate account, thanks) I found an Asus motherboard, some RAM and an Intel processor. I was fairly certain all the pieces matched.

I was wrong. I ordered a 400MHz FSB motherboard and a 533MHz FSB processor. Just frelling great. I’m an idiot, and even better than that I’m an idiot who’s at least a week away from getting his computer working properly again.

So now I get to contact CDW and figure out what kind of hoops I have to jump through to change out for the correct processor. Grrrrr. I hate being an idiot. I hate waiting for corporate wheels to grind as my stupid goddamned mistakes are repaired.

Brain for sale, barely used. Will let go cheap. Grrrrr.

(update: CDW’s customer service has been outstanding since the first day we started doing business with them, and today is no exception. My “correct” processor should arrive in a day or two, and I’ll be returning the other one later today. Thank you, Roya!)