will this work SAFELY-technical question

[MelDJ]

see attached image.
the open cdrom worries me. should i put its cover back?

[Paqman]

Depends on what you call safe. If you're just doing some testing, careful adult user, then I don't see any problems. But I wouldn't let small children near anything with exposed rotating parts, for example.

Obviously be careful of shorting anything on the mobo to (for example) the chassis of the power supply.

[MelDJ]

i was wondering whether the laser from the cdrom will cause some harm

[cascade9]

Poor old p2/p3, all naked on the desk *averts eyes* LOL

i was wondering whether the laser from the cdrom will cause some harm

I'm fine with everything else, I've run setups like that 'testing' and ended up using them for a while, but that CD-rom is an issue. You realy dont want leaked laser light to burn your eyes out.

[Spike-X]

Now that's what I call a bare-bones PC!

[Paqman]

i was wondering whether the laser from the cdrom will cause some harm

No, the laser diode is staring at the bottom of the disk. You might get a minimal amount of diffuse reflection, which would be eye-safe. I'd be more concerned about crud getting into the mechanism or on the lens than lasers getting out.

[MelDJ]

its a pentium 3
thanks for explaining

Now that's what I call a bare-bones PC!

i was trying to make into a laptop
maybe i will try to shed more off it and test reactos or bsd

[hardfire_avk]

o! haha good ol days!sexy PC huh!

yeah, the laser may create problems..

PS: did notice the chemistry book

[MelDJ]

PS: did notice the chemistry book

great eyes

[K.Mandla]

It'll more than likely work fine; if it was me I'd do something to raise the power supply and motherboard up off the desk. But I only say that because I like to think the air circulation is of benefit to the hotter parts of the machine.

I'm definitely no expert though.