Can a door slam vibration effect the wall and then vibrate your desk with you computer on it be a problem?
by NFL sunday games ~ February 7th, 2010. Filed under: On Your Computer.Hmm i was wondering?
Any form of vibration could be a problem but modern computers are built of sterner stuff, so it’s unlikely to be an issue in practical reality.
Computer manufacturers know that their computers are going to be used in a wide variety of environments including offices, homes, workshops, etc - so they’re designed to be reliable.
Someone asked a similar question recently about, would their printer moving the desk affect the computer. My answer was pretty much the same.
February 7th, 2010 at 5:58 pm
Nope.
Not unless the door slam smashed the wall, creating structural unsoundness in the building, causing the roof to fall onto the computer.
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February 7th, 2010 at 6:35 pm
It causes no problem otherwise but the user gets disturbed.
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February 7th, 2010 at 6:58 pm
Any form of vibration could be a problem but modern computers are built of sterner stuff, so it’s unlikely to be an issue in practical reality.
Computer manufacturers know that their computers are going to be used in a wide variety of environments including offices, homes, workshops, etc - so they’re designed to be reliable.
Someone asked a similar question recently about, would their printer moving the desk affect the computer. My answer was pretty much the same.
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February 7th, 2010 at 7:38 pm
Can the vibration from a door slam cause a problem, "Yes", if it is strong enough. Any vibration may cause a contact to become loose, perhaps not at first, but over time with frequent incidents of shock vibration, they can.
However, the riskiest component within most computers is the hard drive containing all your stored data. The data is stored on a spinning disc, which is read by a magnetic reader on a long arm pivoted at it retaining end on a step motor central pin. This arm and reader is supported when reading or writing by the airflow over the spinning disc. Any sudden shock vibration, (if heavy enough) could cause the arm to dip and the read/write head can scratch a portion of the disc making it unreadable, perhaps even totally unrecoverable.
Though it is true that components are more robust these days, it is still possible for shock vibration damage to occur, and care should be taken to reduce any risk of undesirable vibration to your equipment
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