Time Period: 2 AM – 4 AM July 6th, 2006
Description: To successfully run a computer whos CPU is completely covered in mineral oil to act as a coolant.
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First task is to find a computer in my closet that actually works.
This computer has a disk problem… lame. NEXT!
This computer’s PS2 port for the keyboard doesn’t work… wonderful. NEXT!
Ah my good old i486 FreeBSD bridge/connection piper, how I’ve missed you.
Shows how long it’s been since I’ve dragged this thing out.
I posted this in case anyone is running a FreeBSD bridge, this is a really fun thing you can do with IPFW and bandwidth pipes. 
Started taking apart the computer, those lil bolts look like they’re going to be a bitch :\.
Finally got em off and threw everything in the aquarium I bought from Walmart earlier tonight under $10. You can see the hard drive sitting up on there since you don’t want any oil on the disks
Time to test to see if the computer still works. Of course I’m a dumb shit and forgot to plug in the power to the HDD, and when I try to the power supply cords don’t reach that high, so…
I create a ghetto hammock for my HDD so the power cord can fit in nicely.
Testing to see if the computer works round 2. It bitches about not being able to find the diskette drive and refuses to let me in to BIOS… fucker. So…
Ghetto rig a second hammock for my diskette drive! Now it’s bitching about my CDROM drive, for fuck’s sake, no more ghetto rigging I’m just throwing that bitch in and where it lands it stays.
HAH IT WORKS! Time to throw in the oil.
I used 6 of those little bottles from Walmart.
The CPU is completely submerged just as I was going for.
Another angle…
Moment of truth…
Looks like there wasn’t enough power to start the power supply fan up with all the resistance so I tilted the tank over more toward the CPU.
Yep…
AND SCORE IT WORKS!!!
That’s right, ghetto rigged to the max and working perfectly.
Made a quick C program to use the CPU to the max to make sure it wouldn’t fuck up, there ya go.
One final picture goodbye.
Vershun is happy it’s done with!
I’m probably going to drag it out tomorrow and do some tests for temperature and what-not, but for now I’m tired and want to go to bed. Night.
