Update: for those of who are here looking for what WAITSWAP means, it would seem that it’s for when a your return is awaiting a replacement part or item.

So I finally found the tracking number for my box, and according to UPS it had made it to California okay. Unfortunately that’s not what ASUS was saying. This was Sunday night and the box had arrived on Friday. Being hopeful that the box was simply sitting in the returns center awaiting checkin I let it be.

On Tuesday I remembered that I should look up on how the repair was going. To my delight the repair status said that it was in final testing. If all they did was put a new BIOS chip in like support said, the mobo still shouldn’t work.

Wednesday: New status for the motherboard, “WAITSWAP”. This isn’t on their step list (Product Received > (Waiting) > Repairing > Final Testing > Packing > Ready for Shipping > Repair Finished), so I’ve come to the conclusion that this means one of four things.

• They’re moving the board from final testing to packaging
• They’re waiting for people/parts for repairs
• They’ve said fuck it and are looking for a replacement for me
• They’re out buying an i7 system for me

Okay so maybe not the fourth one, but still it’s fun to take guesses.

And my name isn’t John Duhard.