Can CPU go through airport x-ray? Need answer ASAP!! 1

[KarenMO]

Hello - I have to catch a flight in the morning for an emergency trip to have surgery out of town. I am self-employed and need to transport my computer with me. After considering many options, I decided (and cleared it with the airline) to bring my CPU on the plane with me in my carry-on luggage and I'll put my monitor in a box and use it as part of my luggage allowance for checked baggage.

My question is: Can the CPU survive the airport x-ray machine? I've heard they can x-ray laptops, but didn't wnat to take anything for granted. It's midnight Eastern time at the moment. I leave here at 9am in the morning. I'm hoping to catch a night-owl or two who happens to be lurking about and will know the answer.

Thanks in advance!

Karen

 

[edfair]

Should go with no problems. I have a buddy that takes his mini case machine with him all the time.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[KarenMO]

THANK YOU SO MUCH, Ed, for your ultra-prompt and oh-so-helpful answer! Peace of mind is what I was hoping for and now I've got it! It's an almost scary paradox, though, to see your signature quote. I'm assuming you mean it in a technical sense, but it's just as true in other aspects of life too. The very reason I'm having to make this last-minute flight is I had to up my scheduled relocation date unexpectedly to have emergency surgery because I have (most likely) incurred permanent loss of vision in my right eye thanks to my misdiagnosing my "drifting eye/floating eye/lazy eye" and partial loss of vision "symptoms" on a Sunday night and making just a routine appointment with the eye doctor the next morning for 8 days later.

My smug comfort due to my misguided Internet research was jolted when numerous other symptoms converged over the week and I ended up in the hospital a week later, diagnosed with a stroke, high blood pressure, and not lazy eye but a more (visually) lethal diagnosis of a detached retina, which I'm told has a window of opportunity of ONE DAY to repair the damage and restore the vision. So hopefully tomorrow will bring the miraculous news that my "Internet research gone awry" did not cost me the use of my right eye.

So you see, that little message can fit in just about anywhere. And it's a useful one too. That's the last time I try to self-diagnose in cyberspace.

Thanks again for your quick answer - it's one less thing to worry about tonight!

Karen

 

[edfair]

Hope that it went well for you and that the weld holds.

I've seen mixed results with the cyber medicine. So I understand what you are saying.

Tag line has more to do with needing to pry the significant details out of users, who tend not to tell you the whole truth.

 

[cdogg]

http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/comp/cabinetxrayfaq.html

~cdogg
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