moving problems!

[dccool879]

i'm going to new zealand for 2 months, and i want to bring my computer! we are bringing all of our things through luggage on the plane. what should i do? :confused:

[Thermopylae_480]

I don't know! I would never trust my computer to luggage handlers :( . Your going to need some serious padding. Also think about weight limits on your flight. Some airlines will only alow a certain amount of weight per passenger. Perhaps it may be better and safer to ship it using a parcel service :confused: ?

[grazzhoppa]

Take out your harddrives and optical drives and put them in electrostatic protection bags, and take them as a carryon. Security might give you a hassle if they see harddrives in your carryon, but I think the worst that'll happen is they'll put them through a special device they normally use for scanning laptops.

If you have a large or heavy heatsink for the CPU, you may want to disassemble it. Airport luggage gets beat up pretty bad, and a heavy heatsink could rip the cpu out of the socket if it wasn't secured properly, additionally a heatsink bouncing around would reak havoc on the motherboard. Also, the heatsink might shift a little during luggage handling which would decrease its heat absorbtion.

I would call up the airport or their website and ask if they have any special services for transporting delicate things like a computer, or if they have any special instructions you have to follow when packing the computer.

Finally, tighten up any screws you can - just to be safe. And if the computer is more than 5 years old, you may want to replace the CMOS battery, so that your bios settings and system clock aren't reset during the time the computer is not plugged in.

I don't know if the high altitude would permantly effect any of the computer parts.

Yes, it might be safer to ship it seperately.

[dccool879]

i'm thinking take the whole thing as carry on :confused:
also, are there any damages that can occur in flight, such as the xrays, electromatiplaticwatic junk etc. you think they'd xray a comp with a window? :rolleyes:

[gR3iF]

:D they will do you can have there a knife in it XD

[wazzledoozle]

Well I had to put my pocket pc through an x-ray machine at the airport, and the screen has been a little weird since then.

[dccool879]

should i screw it and not bring the comp :( i just got my amd 64, will it be total junk by the time i return? I feel dumb cause i got it a week ago, and during the summer i always teach myself tons about computers. would you guys take your computer if you were leaving for over 2 months?

[INSTG8R]

When I moved here to Norway from Canada I just brought it as Carry-On, of course I got funny looks from the Attendants but it fit just fine in the overhead compartment

[dccool879]

Did you pack it up at all? The limit is 45 linear inches, and my case comes out to 42 :eek: I'd need a nice fitting bag :D

[AMDCam]

Dang dude, do you have a laptop or a computer where you are gonna be? I mean just teach yourself on that, AMD64's aren't really revolution, just evolution, but the basics are still there, it's still a traditional processor. I know how you feel though, but dang dude that's a hard one, I just built mine about 2 months ago and I had to leave for 2 days the day I got it working, and I didn't like that, but moving the entire thing temporarily would suck. Can you mail it to yourself? Maybe that would work, it would be a lot less risky I think.

[INSTG8R]

Did you pack it up at all? The limit is 45 linear inches, and my case comes out to 42 :eek: I'd need a nice fitting bag :D

nope carried it my hands and pushed it around on the Carts at my Transfers

[Polaris573]

Thats what I would do. Take it on carryone, that way it will never leave your sight.