Will shaking hurt computer?

agurrisi,

That amount of shaking won't hurt the computer. I don't know what G-force Dell computers are designed to withstand, but I'm sure that yours was subjected to far more during shipment to you.




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My Dell and my Sony have both experienced trips to FL from MI in my motor home without any adverse effects.
HTH

The weak link is the HD which has its head parked automatically when powered down.

Parked: You can destroy the case before you will hurt it.

Running: Try dropping your PC about 6” and you will wipe out your HD!

I doubt that the G load in your house exceeds 1.0001, so you should be safe. - 1G is normal gravity.

As for road loads, we have run tests and best peak we could come up with was 1.1G. That was on PA highways, voted worst in the US.

Are you sure it's shaking because of a train going by? Or could it be the power supply. I'm also operating a Dimension 8100 My monitor will
"shake" when an electric iron is operated on the same circuit. Try changing sockets and/or circuits.

yes I'm sure its because of a train unless its purely coincidental that it starts when the train nears my house and ends once it has passes and it doesn't shake at any other time. My whole desk shakes slightly when this occurs, along with everything else in my house. Its really annoying but it's my parents house not mine...wouldn't be my choice to live next to train tracks.

Just the trains vibration won't hurt your computer. After all, most computers (and everything else) shipped via UPS, Fed-Ex, ect gets thrown around pretty badly. If it can survive shipping, it will survive just about anything.

You may encounter some issues because of loose cables or something, but simply check all cables once in a while and you should have no problems. I did have one machine that the ribbon cable for the hard drive came loose and had to push it back in, and no problems since.

Good luck
Dan