alcazar

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I might need to take my UK desktop to France next time I go. I would like a new one for down there, but finances dictate that we ALSO need a sink, worktop, two units, a tap, a new TV and a satellite dish and receiver, plus about a hundred 8' x4' sheets of plasterboard and metal framing, four doors and a toilet to start us off in the new upstairs, and 25m of hot water plumbing, so a PC is way down the queue.

However, my next visit may well begin at Whit and end with the end of the summer holidays: I can get SO much more done when the wife isn't there. (And no comments here about French laydees, please).

So..........CAN I SAFELY transport my Acer PC down to Limoges, in a Subaru with hard suspension, and then back again?

And what ought I to do to make sure it travels OK, if anything? I would only need the tower, the monitor, mouse and keyboard are there, all brand new, nearly, from the last one, before it decided that all it's capacitors would swell up.

For you computer experts, sorry if this is a totally daft question, but better safe than sorry.

TIA.

Scooby Soon!

transported around in vans / lorries / container ships before it got to you?

LostUser

In the old days you could park the hard disk heads using a software command but sadly/luckily you no longer need to do that anymore

alcazar

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I know they get transported BEFORE they come to me, but thought maybe the hard disk was locked until I started it up?

Do you not need to because they don't suffer from movement now?

acstua

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should be fine less u go offroading with uber hard suspension afaik

if it doesnt boot when u get to the other end you might have managed to knock something slightly outta a slot, but just push everything home again and youd be good to go

john_s

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AFAIK, most, if not all, hard disks auto-park their heads these days.

pimmo2000

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wow that was a blast from the past .. Nimbus ..


Nah, just check the fan is seated ok before you boot. It'll be fine.

alcazar

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Cheers guys.

dunx

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And check the memory is seated correctly too !

dunx

ALi-B

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One thing to worry about: Heat sinks. They can fall off!

Especially the standard Intel 775 type (Dual core/quad core etc). Easy to check, just remove PC cover and check all four plastic pegs in each corner are tight, if they are loose, it needs reclamping (worst heatsink fixing design...ever! ).


Also any oversized aftermarket heatsinks should be removed anyway, as the weight can cause the tracks within motherboard PCB to fracture. The same can apply to high spec graphics cards with large heatsinks;

In a tower PC transported upright, the weight of heasinks and large peripheral cards can pull at the motherboard sockets, so best to removed large/heavy GPU cards. Or transport teh PC on its side (right hand side on the bottom).

Everything else generally is ok, teh only other thing to worry about is things vibrating loose. Hard drives auto park and are pretty shock proof when switched off (back-up the data anyway, as you always should) so thats not really an issue.

alcazar

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Thanks Ali. Mine is standard, but will travel on it's right side, as noted.