Just received an update:
Here is an excerpt from the conversation I just had:
The decision was made to grab a similar machine and move harddrives to it. The new machine is fully operational. we are going to put the old one on the bench for now and try to figure out the problem with it later.The power new supply didn't work. along with another power supply. but they work in other supermicros...
The new machine is on the rack.
It is now booting up. harddrives are going through force fsck (again) then we will return to trouble shoot why the raid has issues, and then once that is squared away, it should rebuild in the background.