How to pack your laptop for shipping
Your Laptop although portable is still a fragile piece of electronic equipment, even when it stops working for you. It is very important to ensure that when you are sending your laptop for repair that you pack it carefully to ensure that no harm comes to it in transit from you to your repairer. With this in mind we have outlined some simple steps that will help ensure that your laptop reaches it’s destination in one piece. Although your courier will handle you machine with care accidents can happen. There are a few simple rules that will help ensure that your laptop makes it ok.

Instructions
You will need, your carry case, some packing material (e.g. bubble wrap), a strong box and wide packing tape.

  • If you don’t have a box DON’T SHIP IT! We cannot emphasise this enough unless your carry case is a “Flight Case” (the kind bands use on tour, wait until you have a box suitable to send your machine. Ask your repairer can they supply you with a box (there may be a charge for this service).

  • Take note of your machines serial no and call centre reference or pick up reference. You would be amazed how many people do not know what there machine is and when you call the repairer it’s not enough to say “it’s a grey one !” (True Story).

  • If your machine will still boot up – BACK IT UP! Most repairers including manufacturers, will not accept any responsibility for your data and remember, when it’s gone it’s gone !

  • Remove the battery, cd’s, usb keys, sd cards & cables. Make sure that your cd rom drive and screen are securely closed. Removing your battery ensures that your machine is not and will not power up for any reason in transit, which could cause it to over heat.

  • Return your laptop to its carry case, wrap in bubble wrap and then place in the box. Wrap the ac adaptor & battery separately and place in the box as well, don’t forget to include your contact details. Make sure that it’s not too cramped in there but don’t let the machine rattle around either (if you don’t have bubble wrap then crumpled up news paper is a great filler). If you don’t have a carry case than use bubble wrap to wrap up your machine and make sure that you use enough to ensure that your machine is adequately protected, again use crumpled up news paper to make it a snug fit.

  • Tape up the box and make sure that the machine or accessories do not rattle about.

  • Tape the delivery address and reference number to the box, and its no harm to put your address on it somewhere as well (use a small label for this as you don’t want it getting mixed up with the destination address)
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    Hopefully if you use the above guidelines your machine will be fine and arrive ok but we accept no responsibility for the above advice. We will however say this…… if you don’t use the advice the chances are far greater that YOUR MACHINE MAY GET DAMAGED !