When I went downstairs to check for water leaking into the basement during the storm last night, Zombie 1 was making weird noises. I powered it down and today found that it seemed that the PSU, not the optical drive or hard drive, was making the weird noises. This is a shame for many reasons. I don’t really need an optical drive in the thing, I have many spare 3.5″ IDE hard drives, and the PSU is a weird one that’s the wrong shape. Even if I bought a normal PSU and connected it from outside the case or something crazy like that, it would likely cost more than the machine cost me in the first place. At this point I’ve turned it back on and I guess we’ll just see how long it will last. This feels oddly sad.
EDIT: It is no longer making strange noises, at least for now.