fedex question

[boyRacer]

Originally posted by: amdskip
Let us know who it was or you can pm/email it to me.

Its in the FS/FT forums...

 

[Ryan]

This needs to be bumped up again......

 

[Ryan]

Any updates?

 

[Krazy4Real]

I can't believe someone in their right mind would ship a computer and monitor like that!

 

[vtqanh]

I don;t think you can blame Fedex for this. The packaging was so bad.

 

[slag]

Originally posted by: amdskip
A system should not be shipped with hard drives installed in a case like that IMHO. There isn't enough give to take the shock. I'm suprised this is Fedex actually and not UPS.

Its perfectly fine to ship a system fully configured--I've done it several times.

The key is to stuff some sort of filler in the computer. Whether its towels, styrofoam peanuts, crumpled up newspapers, etc, you have to put something in there to fill in the space and make it relatively tight. I do take the cpu and memory out though since those are easy to jar loose and are relatively small.

 

[FoBoT]

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[Ns1]

fedex won't pay for that

shipper's fault

 

[whaleskinrug]

I swear I feel nauseous looking at that

 

[amdskip]

Originally posted by: slag

Originally posted by: amdskip
A system should not be shipped with hard drives installed in a case like that IMHO. There isn't enough give to take the shock. I'm suprised this is Fedex actually and not UPS.

Its perfectly fine to ship a system fully configured--I've done it several times.

The key is to stuff some sort of filler in the computer. Whether its towels, styrofoam peanuts, crumpled up newspapers, etc, you have to put something in there to fill in the space and make it relatively tight. I do take the cpu and memory out though since those are easy to jar loose and are relatively small.

Not this computer. Those hard drive cages are removed to easily and they aren't supported that well. Everything should have been zip tied at least. Here's the heavy hard drives: SEAGATE SCSI 18.4GB 15,000RPM, MODEL# ST318453LC -X15 Drive (Running 2 for Raid 0 sets). I wonder if he actually paid the 2k for it or traded a laptop.

 

[PanzerIV]

Originally posted by: jntdesign
is there a way to tell if a package was insured by looking at the fedex shipping label??

also, if a package is insured, but not packed worth a shiat...do they still cover it?

heres why I'm wondering - my new PC (warning, high res)

I feel for you jntdesign. The guy who shipped those like that is a true moron. He must have thought that a shipping company that handles many thousands of packages an hour was going to exclusively ship his like it had eggs inside. He needs to learn the art of packing.

 

[Garet Jax]

Originally posted by: vtqanh
I don;t think you can blame Fedex for this. The packaging was so bad.

Agree with that one...

Although Fedex should take some responsiblity since they didn't force the sender to package better.

If I try to ride a roller coaster without the harness, I bet you the park employees would stop me.

 

good news, everything seems to work except for the video card (9700 AIW Pro)
It outputs all kinds of garbage

I haven't tested the optical drives yet...but I'm assuming they survived. (I can't get the dvd burner out of the case...it's stuck)

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: jntdesign
good news, everything seems to work except for the video card (9700 AIW Pro)
It outputs all kinds of garbage

I haven't tested the optical drives yet...but I'm assuming they survived. (I can't get the dvd burner out of the case...it's stuck)

Wait, you said it was a 9800pro above.

Originally posted by: jntdesign
want me to make it worse?
that card that the hard drive rack is sitting on (the big bent one) is an adaptec 2100s SCSI card with 128mb of onboard memory
the fried video card is 9800 AIW Pro
the two hard drives are 15k rpm cheetahs (18.4gb)

 

[nodoubts2k]

That sucks man, lucky almost everything survived OK

 

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: jntdesign
good news, everything seems to work except for the video card (9700 AIW Pro)
It outputs all kinds of garbage

I haven't tested the optical drives yet...but I'm assuming they survived. (I can't get the dvd burner out of the case...it's stuck)

Wait, you said it was a 9800pro above.

Originally posted by: jntdesign
want me to make it worse?
that card that the hard drive rack is sitting on (the big bent one) is an adaptec 2100s SCSI card with 128mb of onboard memory
the fried video card is 9800 AIW Pro
the two hard drives are 15k rpm cheetahs (18.4gb)

Typo...i bought a 9800 pro about a week ago.

 

[Kaervak]

Good lord, that's a piss poor excuse for packaging. I'm about to ship my Xbox out to someone on this board and It's got as much packaging to probably withstand getting dropped off a plane. I hope you get this resolved man.

 

[amnesiac]

Well, you DID buy from a newbie. You had BETTER talk to him about his shipping though before he gets into more trouble.