Ok, not sure where to put this...
so I put it here. Let's see how it goes.
my 4U evercase has the 5.25" drive bay loaded with 2 optical drives and a removable HD bay. I put the shallowest CDROM on bottom, but lo and behold, when I went to replace the drive bay, disaster! The back corner of the CDROM was touching the top of a capacitor on the back of the mobo. (these caps are located by the memory slots----ECS K7s5A ). I am not sure, but since there is exposed metal on the top of the cap (electrolytic i believe), I am thinking this situation is bad bad bad.
So, after cursing the case a few moments,
I loosened the screws in all the 5.25" drives and pushed them forward and pushed the backs up as far as possible (w/o maybe drilling new holes or something--the front screw mounts don't allow any play really....most cases have them as sliding. I guess it's fixed to ensure the drives line up correctly with the front of the case without having to nudge things into alignment.)
Backs of the drives shifted up, I then held the drive cage up while screwing it down, thus gaining a bit more altitude. The net result is a space between the drives and the cap. but it's quite a small one. maybe about an 1/8 of an inch. a few millimeters. I'm playing w/ the drive bay and it doesn't appear it will actually touch the cap now. but it's real damn close. it makes me nervous as hell.
So--Am I right in worrying about this, should I maybe put some sort of barrier between the drive and the offending cap in case the bay were to get jostled? I know it won't likely break the cap but im wondering if this could short something out and fry stuff. In short, I want to prevent the cap from getting zapped---could that happen? If so, how should I do this...
so I put it here. Let's see how it goes.
my 4U evercase has the 5.25" drive bay loaded with 2 optical drives and a removable HD bay. I put the shallowest CDROM on bottom, but lo and behold, when I went to replace the drive bay, disaster! The back corner of the CDROM was touching the top of a capacitor on the back of the mobo. (these caps are located by the memory slots----ECS K7s5A ). I am not sure, but since there is exposed metal on the top of the cap (electrolytic i believe), I am thinking this situation is bad bad bad.
So, after cursing the case a few moments,
I loosened the screws in all the 5.25" drives and pushed them forward and pushed the backs up as far as possible (w/o maybe drilling new holes or something--the front screw mounts don't allow any play really....most cases have them as sliding. I guess it's fixed to ensure the drives line up correctly with the front of the case without having to nudge things into alignment.)
Backs of the drives shifted up, I then held the drive cage up while screwing it down, thus gaining a bit more altitude. The net result is a space between the drives and the cap. but it's quite a small one. maybe about an 1/8 of an inch. a few millimeters. I'm playing w/ the drive bay and it doesn't appear it will actually touch the cap now. but it's real damn close. it makes me nervous as hell.
So--Am I right in worrying about this, should I maybe put some sort of barrier between the drive and the offending cap in case the bay were to get jostled? I know it won't likely break the cap but im wondering if this could short something out and fry stuff. In short, I want to prevent the cap from getting zapped---could that happen? If so, how should I do this...
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