So I'm going to a LAN Party

RetroEvolute · April 21st, 2005, 07:22 PM

What exactly is the best way to keep your computer sade inside the car on the way over?

I have a friend, or well... more of an acquaintance, but he was bringing his computer to school for a presentation and he fried (I'm assumingly by static shock) his mobo...

He had a Dell and thankfully Dell was nice enough just to send him a new motherboard in which I helped him re-install it... The motherboard they sent was a newer version of the other motherboard, also... SO it was cool in the end... However... I don't have a dell, and I doubt I'd be able to replace my mobo if something like that were to happen...

And my computer is my baby... So, I really don't want it to die on me... And it cost me a lot of money, but yeah... Please leave some advice for safe computer transportation. This may come in handy for others sometime else, also...

(If there's already a thread, link me to it. I tried search but I was unsuccessful. Even google had trouble coming up with a good one.)

MadMan2k · April 21st, 2005, 08:47 PM

I've never heard of frying a computer by leaving it in a car. Just wherever it wont slide around too much should be fine.

c44151 · April 21st, 2005, 08:54 PM

I transprted mine about a dozen times from home to another city cause of school and mine still works fine. just make sure to secure it so it doesn't slide around or wack you in the back of you head incase you get into an accident.

paul9 · April 21st, 2005, 08:56 PM

back seat with seatbelts on is my preferred method.

Undeadlord · April 21st, 2005, 09:05 PM

Yea its Nerdy

.. but I buckle mine into the backseat, then I place the monitor next to it, glass side down and belt it in as well. Never had any problems.

Undeadlord

John Prophet · April 21st, 2005, 09:08 PM

never heard of static damaging a comp like that in a car....I have transported comps in cards and trucks etc dozens of times....I think your friends issue was a fluke or something unrelated.

just set it in the back seat and dont worry, lol

what I have seen is on occasion when you move a computer the video card might shift a little in the slot and you might have to reseat it...so if you get there and have no video that would be something to check

JP

butch81385 · April 21st, 2005, 09:10 PM

i put my lcd in its box with the styrofoam

my computer i put on the floor between the back seat and the front passenger seat and move the front one back far enough to keep it secured. also, when you get there you may want to open it up and make sure everything is tight... someone at a lan party i went to thought they had fried their computer, turns our a plug just got loose inside (wasnt tight to begin with)

RetroEvolute · April 21st, 2005, 09:15 PM

Cool, I was planning to buckle it in if I didn't get any good information. I think it's hilarious that we all buckle our computers in...

Now you should understand why parents, when your little (And even when your old) tell you to buckle in so much... You might get a Static Shock.... Or fly through a window...

John Prophet · April 21st, 2005, 09:18 PM

let me tell you what I did one day

picked up a laptop from a friend...I was going to rebuild/sell it for him

A dell latitude with the real nice docking station etc

So I go to the card...set the docking station on the roof....set the laptop/bag in the car...

hehe....

when I got to the gym and I got out of the car, I was surprised to see a docking station on my roof!!

JP

Bizkitkid2001 · April 21st, 2005, 09:21 PM

I set mine in my back seat, with it laying sideays pinned between the fron seat and the back of the backseat (Ext. cab pickup) This way I don't need to deal with the seatbelt. I've never had a problem. I also do the same with the monitor. I then put my bag with all the other things in it (Mouse, keyboard, cables, game cds, etc...) inbetween the monitor and case to prevent sliding during turns.