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Since the quarantine is ending my cousins will come over and normally this wouldn't be a problem but he called me and said a lot of inaudible stuff about overclocking,msi and razer. I really hope he doesn't get into afterburner/bios and mess stuff up. How would I hide my PC?

Also telling him it's broken or it doesn't have any games on it doesn't work

 

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Simple - Make it so they can't use it period.


Remove the power cord from it, unplug the HDD, unplug the powerswitch header - Whatever you have to do and don't shy away from saying not to mess with it either, esp if they've messed it up before leaving you to deal with it.

 

It's your stuff, let them know it and enforce it however you have to.

 

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You can put it out of reach from them 

Maybe put it on a higher place that they can't reach 

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1 hour ago, Beerzerker said:

 

It's your stuff, let them know it and enforce it however you have to.

Agree. 
 

They cannot just randomly come over you your house and access a expensive pc that you paid for. 
 

Do simple stuff that a techy would easily fix but a non-techy couldn’t , like disconnecting front panel connectors, etc. 

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Install a hidden power button, so he can't turn it on by himself

Other than that.. Just tell him not to touch your PC (or tell your parents to tell him/his parents that).

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1 minute ago, minibois said:

or tell your parents to tell him/his parents that).

Or just straight up don't let them go into your room 

I mean it's your room and they can't go in it if you said no 

After all it is your room

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How old are you?

Keep trying to sign this stupid screen but it wont work...

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7 minutes ago, Nbd508 said:

How old are you?

What does this have to do with anything related to the post ?

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Lock your room.If you are living with your parents, get them to back you up, telling them your cousins seem to have mad ideas about very risky procedures that could very well cause damage. 
There is time for subtlety, this may not be it.

 

edit/addon: Just had a look at your PC specs in your profile. It is comparable to the one I have and to be honest, no 6 year old that I know would be allowed to own such a PC or be able to use it for any prolonged amount of time (if any parenting is involved). If they want to play with you, play a boardgame (at least I would consider that more age appropriate for your cousins).

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Put a USB stick with Manjaro Lite on it into the back of the motherboard, and change BIOS settings to boot from USB.

 

That's what I would do for fun.

 

 

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39 minutes ago, TofuHaroto said:

What does this have to do with anything related to the post ?

It's directly related, how wouldn't it be?

Keep trying to sign this stupid screen but it wont work...

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4 minutes ago, Nbd508 said:

It's directly related, how wouldn't it be?

Tell me how ?

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2 hours ago, TofuHaroto said:

You can put it out of reach from them 

Maybe put it on a higher place that they can't reach 

There's the closet I guess. He would probably find it though

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46 minutes ago, Benji said:

Set a BIOS, HDD and User password. That locks the system down so much that they can neither boot it nor enter BIOS to change settings without a password. These options are there for a reason. Apparently he is 6 years old and has not the slightest idea of a computer, so he certainly shouldn't be talking about some companies and especially overclocking. No means no. That's what I would do instead of physically hiding it, unless they start to open it up and do whatever with it.

He might just start a rant about me not giving him the password and that's just a wormhole I don't want to go through

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2 hours ago, Beerzerker said:

Simple - Make it so they can't use it period.


Remove the power cord from it, unplug the HDD, unplug the powerswitch header - Whatever you have to do and don't shy away from saying not to mess with it either, esp if they've messed it up before leaving you to deal with it.

 

It's your stuff, let them know it and enforce it however you have to.

 

Great idea to unplug the ssd. 

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1 hour ago, gloop said:

Agree. 
 

They cannot just randomly come over you your house and access a expensive pc that you paid for. 
 

Do simple stuff that a techy would easily fix but a non-techy couldn’t , like disconnecting front panel connectors, etc. 

disconnecting the power button. How did I not think of that? Thank you

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7 minutes ago, TofuHaroto said:

Tell me how ?

give me an age I will 

Keep trying to sign this stupid screen but it wont work...

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1 minute ago, Benji said:

That's where the "no means no" part comes in. Passwords are there for a reason and the child will need to learn that one day. Might as well be with you, I think their parents would understand.

I have a good relationship with the parents. The problem that he is so little that it is hard to convince him otherwise

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1 minute ago, Nbd508 said:

give me an age I will 

I go to high school

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1 minute ago, Nbd508 said:

give me an age I will 

That doesn't answer my question 

How can age have to do with anything related to the topic 

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Just now, TofuHaroto said:

That doesn't answer my question 

How can age have to do with anything related to the topic 

Just wanted to cut  things short. I don't know how it's related either

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a windows password is the easiest. Then you can use it, and he can't

 

Or, if you wanna be nice, get up a guest account and let him log into that, it won't let him make any changes to the system, but he can still surf the web.

 

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1 minute ago, Radium_Angel said:

a windows password is the easiest. Then you can use it, and he can't

 

Or, if you wanna be nice, get up a guest account and let him log into that, it won't let him make any changes to the system, but he can still surf the web.

 

Passwords will just make him cry about me not giving it to him. Don't know about the guest account thing though. Maybe I could use a VM.

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3 minutes ago, VegetableStu said:

wow, way to hold yourself ransom ._.

Hah. He didn't respond too.

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