Need some suggestions on transporting my tower and other bits

mishima

mishima

mishima

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Hi,

I might be going to my friends at the weekend and he lives a few hours away from me. He suggested bringing my pc and having LAN games etc.

With me travelling quite a distance and it being a new build im abit jubious of taking it. How can I make sure its securely in my car without it being smashed about and me damaging it? (my driving isn't that bad!!)

Any suggestions ideas would be great!
 
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Big box... wrap the PC in bubblewrap or a rather padded quilt to give it extra protection. I'd probs put it behind a seat too to stop it rolling.
 
Always put mine behind the passenger seat then slide the seat back to it, so it sort of clamps it between the front seat and back seat, then it can't move at all :D
 
original box with the the packing that was in it? should keep the case nice and sturdy, if not i usually strap mine in with the seatbelt in the back seats.
 
I clamp it between the seats as mentioned above and also use a duvet as padding.

Monitors are the hard part. Always keep the factory box and foam for transporting them .
 
Just gonna take two towers with me, sounds like good idea what you guys have suggested. I'll just be dead careful going round corners lol.
 
It's always best to have a tower pc laying flat when transporting it, with the motherboard side at the bottom, so if you've got a big heavy heatsink on the cpu it's putting less stress on the motherboard. If it was in the normal position with the pc standing up and you went over a pothole, you could potentionaly hear a nasty cracking sound :eek:
 
I've been advised not to take my towers as I could cause damage going over bumps, if I crash im goosed!

Heard that i could damage sectors on my hard disk too!

:(
 
Are you planning on going off road or something? :rolleyes:
If I remember my HDD knowledge right, when they't not in use the hdd head (the bit that moves over the discs) always goes to a resting place where no data is stored on the disc. So if it comes into contact with the disc it's not going to ruin anything.

Last month I packed up my small PC which is in a Lian Li V300, into a flight case (aluminium box) and let the airlines do their best to destroy it. It obviously took some knocks and drops as it arrived a little worse for wear. Aswell as the pc inside the case, I'd packed a small voltage converter, this wasn't a good idea as the convertor was at the motherboard tray end of the pc and the whole pc had obviously been dropped on that end at some point. Meaning the convertor has been pushed into the pci slot/motherboard tray area and deformed it, enough to pop out two rivets on the tray :mad: If the voltage convertor hadn't been in there the pc would have had the sudden load spread across the whole of the rear and would have been fine, so it's just bad packing, bubble wrap was too compressable....
The pc didn't boot but eventualy I found it was the CPU, which had unseated slightly in the knock. Now everything is fine, HDD's have no bad sectors I've noticed and they're full of data.
So a pc can take a fair amount of abuse and survive, even if baggage handlers see the word "fragile" and think "rugby ball" instead. :rolleyes:
 
i don't know what all the fuss is about. i've cycled with a shuttle in a backpack before and roads are not the smoothest of things on a bike. lay them flat in the boot/backseat and pad round them so they don't move :)
 
I've moved house so many times over the years and always had a pc. Just do as the other posters say - pack the pc in a duvet or bubblewrap and strap it to the seat with seatbelt or in between seats. Keep the weighty side down if possible and you'll be absolutly fine.

In the old days you use to be able to use the DOS command "park" to park the reading head of the HDD so it couldnt move or touch the disc. (i think its now in built into windows os!!) so that was always a good way of ensuring data was kept! :)
 
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