How to clean up the cable mess?

[Rakido]

Hi,

anyone remember the thread awhile ago, who had the messiest desk? As i worked in my computer yesterday, i thought by myself "this cable-mess would definitely qualify for a first place, if there ever is a cable-mess-contest".

But as this is counter-productive to appropriate cooling, i want to get rid of this and therefore ask, if anyone has good tips and hints, how to accomplish this.

I have three harddisks, cd-rom, cd-writer, floppy and a Iomega Jaz.


Thanks
Rakido

[Pertti]

If you are talking about the cable mess inside the case, sorry, there is just not enough stuff in your system for a real mess

Picture all this INSIDE a midi sized Enlight case (my secondary system):

Motherboard: Asus P2B-S, rev1.03, bios 1012
Prosessor: Intel PIII-500 (100MHz)
Memory: 128MB Siemens PC100
PSU: Enermax EG251P-V (250W)

AGP - Marvel G400
PCI4 - CAMTEL CP-110-PR (BT848)
PCI3 - RTL8029AS NIC
PCI2 - Promise FT33
PCI1 - shared with ISA1
ISA1 - Rockwell 56k/V90 modem
ISA2 - Creative SB32AWE

Pri Master - Seagate Medalist Pro ST36451A, 6.4GB (7200rpm, ATA33)
Pri Slave - Seagate Medalist Pro ST36451A, 6.4GB (7200rpm, ATA33)
Sec Master - IBM-DTTA-371010, 10GB (7200rpm, ATA33)
Sec Slave - Hitachi GD-2500 DVD

Promise Ch1 Master - Seagate Medalist Pro ST36530A, 6.5GB (7200rpm, ATA33)
Promise Ch2 Master - Seagate Medalist Pro ST36530A, 6.5GB (7200rpm, ATA33)

SCSI ID8 - Seagate Medalist Pro ST34520W, 4.5GB (7200rpm, UWSCSI)
SCSI ID9 - Seagate Medalist Pro ST34520W, 4.5GB (7200rpm, UWSCSI)
SCSI IDA - Seagate Medalist Pro ST34520W, 4.5GB (7200rpm, UWSCSI)

SBIDE Master - HP7200i CD-RW
SBIDE Slave - Creative CD1620E CD

As for your question, have a look here: http://www.virtualhideout.net/articl...ew/index.shtml
...Not bad...

Pertti

[This message has been edited by Pertti (edited 10 August 2000).]

[xortam]

About the only cable consolidation I was able to do was use some plastic coil cable wrap around my keyboard and mouse cables: these two are always routed together (guess I now need to include the USB mouse cable with the two PS/2 cables). I also used some KVM switch boxes to share equipment between multiple systems but these cheap switches can't cope with my 25 foot run to the HT room (costlier electronic switches should). Its hard to clean things up too much because one is often disconnecting everything to get into the case or wanting to rearrange equipment placement. (Oops, just had a little earthquake, rockin California!). I like the little Velcro cable ties for managing cables also.