Hell, he already spent more than seventyfive beans worth of time when he grabbed the replacement.
"Progress not process" may separate the path to results from the path to "the answer".
When the replacement arrives and goes live then Scatman can fiddle and fart around with the suspect box to fugure out what's the dang deal. Or he may just shrug and say fuggit, who gives a sht? lol
Exactly what's your point... that $75 isn't a lot to spend for a computer? I agree with that. And certainly part of the reason why I wrote:
Kick yourself for not having a legit DR plan in place.
If @Scataphagos weren't a half-wit punter he'd have what's called foresight and the cold spare would be in his cupboard. Instead he's waiting for it to be delivered via eBay.
Hell, some of us even run geographically distributed clusters that can either switchover and/or failover... depending on circumstances

Here's a nickel @Scataphagos, go ahead and set up heartbeat for yourself. Of course, by blocking me he's preordained any advice or knowledge I offer is useless. Lol, oh well!