Thanks, Randy, for your reply. I did kind of anticipate other potential problems when I saw the fan was off. It can't be good for a computer to have a fan banging around loose inside the case during shipping- not to mentioned the shot it had to take to knock it off. Anyway, I tried re-seating...
Got mine on Thursday and of course the heat sync fan was off and flopping around. Got that back on and VM is sending a replacement.
Upon plugging it in for the first time today, however, it wont even turn on. I just get all the internal lights blinking and clicking with some sort of...