Hello community,
I recently took my "older" system, which I have been using on a daily basis for gaming, and decided to take the guts and leave it at my GF's home so I have a separate rig when I travel & stay at her place. I took all the parts (minus the case), and pulled an old case from my storage, and prepped it for travel. I wrapped up my PSU in bubble wrap, and placed it inside the case along with some extra stuffing to prevent it from movement, and put the case back in its original packaging with styrofoam spacers.
I took my the rest of my parts, and packed it in my suitcase hoping to take it on board or at worst do a gate check. Got my ticket from the kiosk, checked my case in, and headed to security. Before I got to security, I got stopped by the airline agent, and was told I wouldn't be able to gate check my suitcase, and it had to be checked in..."oh great", my luggage will be at the mercy of the luggage handlers...I had wrapped up my motherboard in a plastic bag (didn't have static free bag), and bubble wrapped my video card in my suitcase. My two HD's were safely in my backpack, which I boarded with.
I arrived at my destination, and unpacked everything. I started putting my PC back together. Powered it up, fans were spinning, and got just an empty black screen. I had one regret, which was leaving the CPU and heatsink attached to my mobo, even though I did my best to pack clothing around it (creating a step of sorts) to fit its odd shape. I noticed that my heatsink was slightly off-kiltered from the pressure of other luggage and/or handling on its travel. I found that the heatsink was pushed onto the motherboard heatsinks and bit, but "appeared" to have not damaged any of the circuitry on the actual board (assumption).
So, I went through my checklist: all cables attached correctly (yes, even the 4 pin CPU plug, which is most commonly forgotten), all the SATA cable connected corectly to my two HD's and optical, both PSU plugs in my vid card, and reset the RAM. So, in the back of my mind, I thought the mobo or CPU may have taken on too much pressure on its travels. I checked the CPU, and looked for any damaged pins - "looked good" to me. I decied to purchase a cheaper LGA 775 mobo (ASUS P5K), and reconnected everything. Same thing...no post, beep and just a blank screen. I went through the suggested "Perform these steps" checklist found here (http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/261145-31-perform-steps-posting-post-boot-video-problems). I've run out of ideas, and just wanted to see if any of you had any ideas before I bit the bullet and bought another CPU. Has anyone travelled with PC parts, and had similar issues when you put it all back together ? My components are as follows:
CPU: Intel Core 2 E8400 (3.0Ghz, 1333 Mhz FSB, 64 bit) - may replace with Q6600 (Core 2 Quad)
Mobo: Brand new Asus P5K (LGA775, dual channel DDR2, P35 chipset) - replaced my Asus Maximus Formula II
RAM: 4GB Corsair (model: CM2X2048-8500C5D, XMS2-8500, 1066Mhz, 240 pin, dual channel kit)
HD's: 2 x Seagate Barracuda ES.2 (ST3250310NS, 250GB/ea, 7200rpm) - ran them in Raid 0
Vid: 1 x XFX Radeon HD 4890 (1GB, DDR5)
PSU: Zalman 850W PSU (already tested it with the paperclip trick)
Sound: Supreme XF Xi-Fi (which came with my Maximus Formula II)
OS: Win 7 Pro 64bit
Sorry for being long winded - I just wanted to give as much information as possible to help troubleshoot. Thanks for your attention !
Sincerely,
Trav ~
I recently took my "older" system, which I have been using on a daily basis for gaming, and decided to take the guts and leave it at my GF's home so I have a separate rig when I travel & stay at her place. I took all the parts (minus the case), and pulled an old case from my storage, and prepped it for travel. I wrapped up my PSU in bubble wrap, and placed it inside the case along with some extra stuffing to prevent it from movement, and put the case back in its original packaging with styrofoam spacers.
I took my the rest of my parts, and packed it in my suitcase hoping to take it on board or at worst do a gate check. Got my ticket from the kiosk, checked my case in, and headed to security. Before I got to security, I got stopped by the airline agent, and was told I wouldn't be able to gate check my suitcase, and it had to be checked in..."oh great", my luggage will be at the mercy of the luggage handlers...I had wrapped up my motherboard in a plastic bag (didn't have static free bag), and bubble wrapped my video card in my suitcase. My two HD's were safely in my backpack, which I boarded with.
I arrived at my destination, and unpacked everything. I started putting my PC back together. Powered it up, fans were spinning, and got just an empty black screen. I had one regret, which was leaving the CPU and heatsink attached to my mobo, even though I did my best to pack clothing around it (creating a step of sorts) to fit its odd shape. I noticed that my heatsink was slightly off-kiltered from the pressure of other luggage and/or handling on its travel. I found that the heatsink was pushed onto the motherboard heatsinks and bit, but "appeared" to have not damaged any of the circuitry on the actual board (assumption).
So, I went through my checklist: all cables attached correctly (yes, even the 4 pin CPU plug, which is most commonly forgotten), all the SATA cable connected corectly to my two HD's and optical, both PSU plugs in my vid card, and reset the RAM. So, in the back of my mind, I thought the mobo or CPU may have taken on too much pressure on its travels. I checked the CPU, and looked for any damaged pins - "looked good" to me. I decied to purchase a cheaper LGA 775 mobo (ASUS P5K), and reconnected everything. Same thing...no post, beep and just a blank screen. I went through the suggested "Perform these steps" checklist found here (http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/261145-31-perform-steps-posting-post-boot-video-problems). I've run out of ideas, and just wanted to see if any of you had any ideas before I bit the bullet and bought another CPU. Has anyone travelled with PC parts, and had similar issues when you put it all back together ? My components are as follows:
CPU: Intel Core 2 E8400 (3.0Ghz, 1333 Mhz FSB, 64 bit) - may replace with Q6600 (Core 2 Quad)
Mobo: Brand new Asus P5K (LGA775, dual channel DDR2, P35 chipset) - replaced my Asus Maximus Formula II
RAM: 4GB Corsair (model: CM2X2048-8500C5D, XMS2-8500, 1066Mhz, 240 pin, dual channel kit)
HD's: 2 x Seagate Barracuda ES.2 (ST3250310NS, 250GB/ea, 7200rpm) - ran them in Raid 0
Vid: 1 x XFX Radeon HD 4890 (1GB, DDR5)
PSU: Zalman 850W PSU (already tested it with the paperclip trick)
Sound: Supreme XF Xi-Fi (which came with my Maximus Formula II)
OS: Win 7 Pro 64bit
Sorry for being long winded - I just wanted to give as much information as possible to help troubleshoot. Thanks for your attention !
Sincerely,
Trav ~
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