How to keep roaches away from inside case?

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/Prod [...] 6811129018 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?

Illuminate the interior of your case.
Roaches avoid light.

And, wtf, your parents like living with roaches?

You can also try placing a few mothballs (naphthalene) around your room. It might keep the roaches away from you and your computer.

thanks guys

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.

Claa Child protection services, and health and human services. They will make your parents clean. Thats gross.

Call your local health department for help.

THAT..............IS..............NASTY

Just surround the PC case with:

Well first, stop throwing the roaches in there... There's still a little left.

Get a roach clip to finish it off.

I agree... you've got to remove the source of the roaches.

Covering the vents to your computer is like putting a bandaid on a severed limb.

Call someone. Living in those conditions is atrocious.

Your problems are much bigger than roaches in your case.
Just having roaches inside your house is a big enough problem.

^ Get a RAID card.. Maybe a 1000w PSU & a P4 can cook a few.

Or get the nV 9800GX2, nothing will be able to survive your case when you turn it into an oven.

LOL! That was one of those classic lame-but-yet-funny puns.......

Thanks, I'm here every Wednesday and Friday...don't forget to tip your wait staff.

That's a good one!

Aw dude, roaches will kick some gecko @ss in there. They have ninja skills.



Print this out and stick it up inside your case as a warning.

Mmm...that is after I cooked them over the 9800Gx2...extra crispy

WOW! Thats a first (not really). There was some on on the forums here a while back (when the C@Ds were just on the market). Some one found out that their PSU died/shut downed randomly was because they had a small scorpion (i think) that was stopping the PSU fan from rotating.

I found this instructional video on how to defeat a super cockroach..

Time to move out.

I'm trying to get my parents to let me bomb the apartment. Anyhow, I gathered some things from this topic and I think I'm going to put a mothball inside the case, ordered this light: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6800888026 , and put Scotch Brite scouring pads over the vents to let it vent through the pads without having the bugs get a chance to enter. I will work more on fixing the apartment up, but how does this sound for the PC?

I dunno, its not so much the light as the brightness of it and it also depends on what kind of roaches. The roaches that where in that one house I told about where running around in the middle of the day, the light didn't seem to bother them at all.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=strKBSyKNUQ

Edit: If you watch the entire thing you'll see where I'm going..

Also, a preemptive SHUT UP to wirelessfender....

He's the ultimate Orkin Man. Who needs Terminex?

A guy in my office was proudly showing off his brand-new PC to a bunch of people when a roach crawled out the front of the case. Everybody started laughing their arses off. After the embarrassment subsided, the guy went out and bought 4 quart cans of Roach-Pruf (mainly boric acid which causes a roaches guts to explode after they eat it). He emptied all 4 quarts all over the carpet and furniture, then had to evacuate to a temporary office after the building inspector visited him and locked the place down. And when he came back, the IT dept. had confiscated his new PC to test it for malfunctions. Whatta bozo!!