[sdiy] OT: The best ways to silence a PC?

[harrybissell]

I've used two methods...

1) Remote the power supply (desktop) from another room, using a special
long cable.  I did not use a harddrive in this case.

2) a purpose-built computer with a 1.44M "Removable Hard Drive"
(aka a floppy drive)...  an EL panel display (no mag fields / high
voltage noise)
and a power supply with no fans. Its DEAD quiet...

H^) harry

Michael Zacherl wrote:

> Michael Buchstaller wrote:
> >>Now, that's cheating ;-). Then you can put the whole computer into
> >>another room.
> >
> > I would really like to do that. Every cable can be extended (Keyboard, mouse (USB),
> > audio and serial lines, MIDI...) But what is with the VGA cable to the monitor ?
> > Everything i have seen makes for an unusable video image, or is at least as expensive
> > as the PC itself.
>
> Is a RGB-Coax cable that expensive? I used a
> (borrowed) 20m cable to connect a Toshiba laptop
> and a Barco beamer. I needed an adapter, but it
> worked although the video signal of laptops is
> rather weak. Almost no reflections (ghost images?).
>
>    Michael.