Safe to run 7200 with no back panel

[chet david]

Is it safe to extensively run a 7200 if missing the entire backpanel? This entire innards exposed. Not using PCI cards. They would wiggle.

 

[Osgeld]

long as everything is grounded properly yes, just dont go sticking your fingers in there while its on

 

[LCGuy]

As long as all the components of the machine are structurally supported, and there's no risk of anything falling/collapsing, you should be fine. Just don't let any children or pets near it, or as Osgeld said, go sticking body parts in it. As long as you don't open the power supply (don't even THINK about it! No user serviceable parts inside!) its perfectly safe for you...just be careful you don't fry the machine.

For what its worth, I've run PC motherboards out of their case with PCI/AGP cards installed with nothing holding them except for the slot and they've been fine...just be extremely gentle with it and you'll be right.

 

[Osgeld]

yea its quite common for tech shops to have their machines just screwed to a chunk of plywood, and as long as nothing is wiggling around its fine, I have done this many times, and at one point back in high school a buddy and I were trying to make a cluster out of our junk and several machines ended up in cardboard boxes

 

[Paralel]

The only trick to running a machine with an incomplete case (or as mentioned above, a bare board) is just to make sure nothing conductive comes in contact with the innards or the top/bottom of the board. A friend of mine managed to blow a nice system back in the day when he sat a bare board on a steel lab bench without any offset or isolation. I have to admit though, the multiple, simultaneous shorts across the board were impressive.

 

[protocol7]

I have to admit though, the multiple, simultaneous shorts across the board were impressive.

You're giving me ideas...

 

[Osgeld]

heh when I worked for a light bulb company I watched some yuts test a neon sign on a steel desk ...

 

[chet david]

What about [flying!] insects as well as spiders

 

[ClassicHasClass]

Two words: screen door.

 

[Bunsen]

a bare board on a steel lab bench

a neon sign on a steel desk

People never cease to amaze me

 

[chet david]

Two words: screen door.

I think you on to something. Cut out screen door type wiry mesh material and fit onto the back. I could cut out holes for ports and slots.

 

[Osgeld]

why not, that's what the did with the G5 onward pro models

:O

(zing)