carputer installed! 56k kill yourselves.

robry · Post by **robry** » May 11, 2006

I haven't touched the registry, some people run xp lite, to try and make things run faster/boot faster (I may do this). roadrunner sets itself to start on startup, same with xport and daemontools is a service. iguidance and winamp are loaded by roadrunner, so you don't have to touch them. The stuff I have installed is what you get, I have a utility for the touschscreen running (lets you tell the computer to use left or right mouse click for touch input), the conf utility for the wifi card, and powerstrip gives me the custom resolution, although I don't know if I actually need to run it at startup anymore. I think thats everything.

Post by **Nikku** » May 11, 2006

robry wrote:I haven't touched the registry, some people run xp lite, to try and make things run faster/boot faster (I may do this). roadrunner sets itself to start on startup, same with xport and daemontools is a service. iguidance and winamp are loaded by roadrunner, so you don't have to touch them. The stuff I have installed is what you get, I have a utility for the touschscreen running (lets you tell the computer to use left or right mouse click for touch input), the conf utility for the wifi card, and powerstrip gives me the custom resolution, although I don't know if I actually need to run it at startup anymore. I think thats everything.

can you get some pix of the entire computer unit instead of just the screen?

robry · Post by **robry** » May 11, 2006

yeah I will do that tonight, along with the wiring for the hookup to the bose amp.

Post by **Nikku** » May 11, 2006

robry wrote:yeah I will do that tonight, along with the wiring for the hookup to the bose amp.

i care more about how the box looks, also how much ram, what CPU, what MoBo are you using? etc etc etc. i am just curious about more so the hardware aspect, software is simple. also, what method of cooling are you using? etc

Post by 77 » May 11, 2006

Spreadsheet ftw. Keep the info flowing Robry!

robry · Post by **robry** » May 11, 2006

temp wrote:
robry wrote:yeah I will do that tonight, along with the wiring for the hookup to the bose amp.
i care more about how the box looks, also how much ram, what CPU, what MoBo are you using? etc etc etc. i am just curious about more so the hardware aspect, software is simple. also, what method of cooling are you using? etc

its an IBM 8303 "pizza box", desktop case pc, 2.4ghz p4, ibm atx mobo w/ i845 intel motherboard. nvidia vanta lt 16mb agp vga card, 256mb DDR266 ram, 40GB IBM deathstar hdd, EDIMAX EW-7128G wifi controller, lite-on 16X dvdrom, BU-353 GPS reciever, m2-atx dc-dc 160w psu. stock cpu cooler from the IBM pc, basically its just a pos I found at work (we have a ton of them) so it works alright. It doesn't look pretty at the moment, but I'll be mounting it soon.

Post by **Nikku** » May 12, 2006

robry wrote:
temp wrote:
robry wrote:yeah I will do that tonight, along with the wiring for the hookup to the bose amp.
i care more about how the box looks, also how much ram, what CPU, what MoBo are you using? etc etc etc. i am just curious about more so the hardware aspect, software is simple. also, what method of cooling are you using? etc
its an IBM 8303 "pizza box", desktop case pc, 2.4ghz p4, ibm atx mobo w/ i845 intel motherboard. nvidia vanta lt 16mb agp vga card, 256mb DDR266 ram, 40GB IBM deathstar hdd, EDIMAX EW-7128G wifi controller, lite-on 16X dvdrom, BU-353 GPS reciever, m2-atx dc-dc 160w psu. stock cpu cooler from the IBM pc, basically its just a pos I found at work (we have a ton of them) so it works alright. It doesn't look pretty at the moment, but I'll be mounting it soon.

a desktop PC case? is that thing huge? why not get one of those "VCR" sized cases?

robry · Post by **robry** » May 12, 2006

its just temporary for right now, I'm testing the hardware and making sure I want to go through with using that stuff. So far it seems fine. Its a desktop style case, probably 14" wide, 18" long and 3" tall. I'll snap some pics.

Post by **Nikku** » May 12, 2006

robry wrote:its just temporary for right now, I'm testing the hardware and making sure I want to go through with using that stuff. So far it seems fine. Its a desktop style case, probably 14" wide, 18" long and 3" tall. I'll snap some pics.

hurry up n make with the pix already!

vtecdood · Post by **vtecdood** » May 15, 2006

munster wrote:Woohoo. I would look at porn the whole time! Then I'd probably infect it with spyware and you'd get popups all of the time.

Awesome install, man.

hahaha steak and cheese owns for pop ups not that i have experience or anything