Sata problem not so complicated?

zerodown

So recently i installed a 300gb sata disk, along with a tv tuner which later broke leaving a pci slot open on my machine.. After a few days i noticed some clicking in the drives while i was transferring files.

I opened the case and checked the cables, disks etc. Everything ok so i boot back up and its fine. Tonight i hear it again and pass no remarks. Restart the machine and No Disks Found "Insert System Disk". So i open the case again......

Only to find a god dam mouse inside! It was sitting on the floppy drive above the hds chewing the cables.. It lept from the case and around my room. I pulled out bits of a cig box, some papers, and bar wrappers as a nest. Not only that but the stink of rat P*** and S*** all in the case..

Well all i have to say is he got what was coming to him when i let in the cat

Anyone any idea how i can clean this without destroying anything?

The Real B-man

First of all WTF!!!!! Can we have some pictures i just dont believe you :rolleyes:

MunsterCycling

This HAS to be made up. ROFL

SeanW

OH MY GOODNESS

And I thought my trobles with my new rig were bad. This takes the cake!

I'd love to see pics of THIS.

zuma

I want to see a pic of the chewed cables!!!!

Thats the first Ive heard of a mouse in a computer.....I knew of one in an old TV before....but never a PC!!!

8T8

Actually I've seen this before got asked to take a look at a PC in a water treatment plant the PC they used was acting up. We took it apart and found a dead mouse inside it had been chewing at the cables and got fried for chewing on the wrong one

Must have been drawn to the heat or something as it had been living inside the case still not sure to this day how it got in.

Cuddlesworth

Yeah a mouse could fit inside a empty pci slot, they dont like the niose though.

zerodown

Yeah sorry my bad, i was just so panicy my computer cost me over €2000 the first thing i did was clean it out, i will post pictures of the culprit soon. Waiting on my hosting to update. sorry

Right so here:

zerodown

There is more but my phone is slow so il update as they come, Basically i will let anyone come here and smell the dam thing who dont believe me. Also i dont think i have to post the umm after effect of the mouse as id have to scrape him up from the carpet!!

MunsterCycling

Ok now you're really taking the pi$$, that is a pet white mouse and yet you had time to photograph it before the cat got too it??? Nice spoof. SPOOF!!!

zerodown

i Resent that remark, ok smart ass come here!! INdeed it is a pet or field mouse that doesnt change the fact that he was living inside my machine. Supposedly my comp heats to 52c must of being like a hotel for him. I didnt catch him the first time, i pulled out the whole room and couldn find him.

Later that night he climbed up my phone charger and i seen him, he lept and made a run for my case again but i had the ports blocked with a old shorts so i caught the rat for a min. I'd love to see you catch one of them there lie springs. I gave up trying to get him again and let the cat finish him off. SHould i let you see the guts on the floor or here even better, i live in tara crescent tullamore co offaly. Come see for yourself. IM as shocked as you are and to be hoonest i wouldnt beleieve it unless i seen it, But i DID!!!

Feel free to come have a whiff and sure take some s*** as a solvenier??
rofl Your Choice believe it and laugh at me or dont!

irlrobins

8T8 wrote:

still not sure to this day how it got in.

think i read somewhere recently that mice have no back bones so are able to squeeze and flatten themselves to get into tight gaps.

But looking at the average PC case I still can't think of a vent big enough even with that...

zerodown

have a look




They really can squeeze into tight places




This is where he was behind all the cables at the front of the case away from the fans he had his nest.

Cuddlesworth

He said he had a open pci-slot in the back, but as somebody else mentioned thats a pet mouse. It would not last a week in the wild.

zerodown

so how the hell did it live in my machine the past god knows how long, yes my cousins have pet mice which do be downstairs the odd time. The fact that they got upstairs in my room when my door is always locked to protect equipment and crept in the back unnoticed and decided he liked the heat and made a nice nest. WHat should i do to clean the motherboard it is em sticky, im afraid that over time the heat will destroy it now

spooky donkey

I sympathise with you but this had to be the funniest thing ove read in a while.

zerodown

spooky donkey wrote:

I sympathise with you but this had to be the funniest thing ove read in a while.

Thank you! Yeah rofl was fairly funny when you think about it. Well il know next time to block all slots not used could of being alot worse he could of being spinning round with the cpu fan beating of everything lol. Sorry i couldn't picture it better you dont prepare for these things.