Did this ship UPS ground? I have received PCs UPS ground where the constant
vibration in shipping has vibrated the cards right out of their slots and
actually moved the motherboard. The first time I saw this I couldn't belive
it....I thought my customer had tried to fix their PC and screwed it up.

The solution is to reset the motherboard so it fits in the case correctly
and puts your cards at the correct level. If you send it back this is what
they will do.  As a quick temporary fix you could probably use washers and
longer screws as a spacer that will allow your cards to seat correctly and
also allow you to tighten the screws down.

This is just one of the many reason why I will only ship individual
components UPS....never a PC or a monitor.

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>Our new AMD 333 Mhz system finally arrived on Monday evening.  We were so
>disappointed when it failed to boot up.  Nada on the screen.  After
>checking all connections to no avail, we began fiddling with the
>innards.  Detached and reattached the cables.  Still nothing.  Then we
>found the culprit.  The video card was not seated deeply enough.  After
>reseating the video card, it ran beautifully.  But we noticed that the
>video card would come loose whenever we screwed in the attachment screw.
>After the computer aborted a few times, we noticed that all of the
>adapter cards had the same problem - not seated properly when they were
>screwed in fully.  So now we are running the system without any of the
>adapter cards screwed in.  Is there a simple fix?  We would hate to send
>the system back just for this problem.  I guess the fit between mbs and
>cases is not always perfect.
>
>Ryo Imamura
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