Death On Arrival & Long Flight

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Does anyone have any links regarding the risks of sending Laptops/PDA/Digital cameras through an Airport X-Ray machine?

I sent my Digital camera through last year with no ill effects... but I'm worried about the Hard disk in my laptop!

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MAD wrote:
Hoya!

X-Rays are not magnetic, are they?

They can be a hazard to films but not to HDs I think...

Be funky

M A D

I just don't feel comfortable with hi energy electrons bumping into the magnetically alligned Atoms on the surface of my hard disk!

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ShawnDude wrote:
One possible problem may be the BIOS is set incorrectly for your setup.  Look up the BIOS resetting procedure, usually setting a jumper or pressing a button for a few seconds.  Cause this happened to my boss's son's computer, nothing would work, no beep, blank screen, and non responsive.  So he bought a new motherboard and CPU and I switched them for him and took the bad parts home with me.  Just for the fun of it, I reset the BIOS and it came right on.  So now I'm the owner of the "bad" parts. ;-)
The only thing that gets me mad about the situation is that the son whined enough while his computer was down, that he got himself a $3,000 Alienware laptop.  And now that his fixed desktop just sits in the corner with a Radeon 9800XT in it going to waste.  :boohoo:

The wrong memory timing settings in the BIOS will cause that. reset them and all will be fine.

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AmigaDE/Intent

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