hoping i packed the motherboard all right
as in, everything in it incl i/o shield (which i almost forgot), put the rma form in the box, it's well packaged
... but now i'm getting paranoid with "what if the motherboard is ok and it's actually the processor"
because that was the only thing we couldn't test, because nobody has another am4 motherboard or another am4 processor
either way i packed the motherboard up real nice (good thing i always keep shipping boxes from other things) and I'm gonna run to the post office which closes soon