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I live in a less than friendly home where roaches can crawl through. I try sprays and whatnot and it helps a little but my parents don't want to bomb the place, dirty people they are. Anyway, I got the centurion 5 and it seems like it has very big holes for vents, so I don't know what to do incase of bugs crawling in which they can easily do.
I ordered this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811129018 because it seems to have less holes just on the back. Anyway, if you guys know how I may be able to keep this case I'd be grateful. Is there anything I can put that can repel them? Is putting a little gate or plastic wrap over the holes with tiny holes popped in the wrap ok? Any ideas?
GAK!!, EWE!!, Roaches, I hate them. First off, if your parents wish to live in a roach motel thats their call but that doesn't mean you can't bomb the room or office that the computer is in, just close it off from the rest of the house if possible and keep bombing on a regular basis to keep from reinfesting your living quarters...ewe., I get the whillies thinking about that.
I'll tell ya'll a story. I was once asked to "fix" a computer that had quit working from this really nice lady I knew. She is a dear so I went to her house and met her daughter, son-in-law and two little kids along with 3 or 4 fat dogs. All of them the nicest sweetest people you would ever want to meet. This did not explain why their home was a total disaster area HEAVILY infested by garbage, piles of clothes and ROACHES! This was the middle of the day and there where roaches crawling on the walls, the tables and every single item in the house. I could hardly sit down for fear of roaches crawling on me, I almost ran out the door. I told them I needed to a look at the computer more closely and figure out the various problems they where having. Fortunately I had a large hefty bag in my car, (a classic Porsche928S and put the computer in the bag and sealed it tight for fear of spreading roaches in my car.
I got the computer home and in the driveway, I got a can of raid and sprayed half a can of it into the bag and computer and sealed it back up. Hours later still outside in the driveway I opened the bag back up and carefully began prying into the computer. There were still some live roaches inside the computer. I took the whole thing apart, I mean everything, all the drives, removed the motherboard and had to actually take the floppy casing apart because so many roaches had crawled inside that their excrement, to put it nicely, had clogged up the heads and moving part of the drive. There was roach excrement ALL inside and all over every part of the computer. It was possibly the nastiest thing I have every seen. I pressure washed the whole case outside and cleaned it out outside wearing gloves. I would never do this again for anyone but these folks. As i said they are the kindest people but their living habits leave much to be desired. I fear for their children. They have since moved to Kentucky or somewhere like this.
Don't every allow yourself to get to this point, it just isn't sanitary.