How Do I make the Blast door from the Doom 3 project ?

Thanks Tale Gunner Ive been meaning to post on your thread I love your wood case really nice wood working skills you have there!
Looking forward to seeing the end results.

As for our systems we kinda put the cart brefore the horse so to speak, we should have waited and gotten the 1000 wt power supply and if I had known that the R600 would be a flop I too would have bought SLI MB's but with all that I have bought I cannot change the setup other than having the 8800 GTX Ultra in a crossfire MB I hope it works out ok.:D

Charles

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Originally Posted by Wannabeamodder

Thanks Tale Gunner Ive been meaning to post on your thread I love your wood case really nice wood working skills you have there!
Looking forward to seeing the end results.

As for our systems we kinda put the cart brefore the horse so to speak, we should have waited and gotten the 1000 wt power supply and if I had known that the R600 would be a flop I too would have bought SLI MB's but with all that I have bought I cannot change the setup other than having the 8800 GTX Ultra in a crossfire MB I hope it works out ok.:D

Charles

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Hey theres nothing wrong with your configuration. You will have a great rig there and I hope to see it working soon.

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Originally Posted by Tale Gunner

Hey theres nothing wrong with your configuration. You will have a great rig there and I hope to see it working soon.

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Thanks TG both rigs are now assembled!
I just have to mount my external switches for the blast doors and wire them up.

Charles

Still looking for an update there Wannabeamodder. Im looking forward to see what youve done with the door in comparison to Crimson Sky. You and your son both have exceptional talent.

Thanks TG

My son will try to gets some pix posted next week I have not felt much like working on it this weekend.

My son still has to correct his door hinges they are too far apart and the light from the lcd screen shows through the cracks between the door panels.
It was something we did not think about happening.
But it is fixable.

Charles

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Originally Posted by Wannabeamodder

Thanks TG

My son will try to gets some pix posted next week I have not felt much like working on it this weekend.

My son still has to correct his door hinges they are too far apart and the light from the lcd screen shows through the cracks between the door panels.
It was something we did not think about happening.
But it is fixable.

Charles

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Everything is fixable with time, effort, patience, or money! Looking forward to the pics thank you.

Update Time!

Here you see the inside of the system.

Here you see the 8800 Ultra video card

Here you see the Zalman 9700 cpu cooler works great the cpu under load
maintains about 38 degrees celsius Idles about 33C

There was a dead zone under the video card no air flow so we put in another fan beside the drive bays and also a slot cooler under the heatpipes on the video card idle temp is around 55 degrees Celsius Load Temp is around 70 degrees celsius.
Before the fans Idle temp was 68 degrees celsius Load was around 80
We just needed to get the air moving under the video card.

The next two picks show the DPDT switch box for the blast door and the ports on the back it plugs into. The other is the composite video in for the LCD screen.

The next two photo's show the installed blast door unit.

And here is a video showing the blast door working.
Sorry about it being a little dark I will try to post a better one later.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...63515242219305

Great work wannabeamodder. It looks really good. Crimson Sky, your son, and you are of the same mold. Fantastic work... I'm jealous!:banana:

OK having a bit of a problem with the Nvidia dual monitor setup.

I have the lcd screen hooked up to the s-video jack on the 8800 ultra.

What I want to do is have a seperate video playing on the lcd not just an extension of the desktop can this be done?

If so what am I doing wrong?

Charles

Thought I would post to let everyone know I'm still around!

The project for the most part is done so the modderators can move the thread to completed mods if they want to.

Thanks for all the support and advice given by all that really helped me alot.

I have no plans for a new mod anytime soon ( I am still recovering from all the dough I spent on these two systems) :)
But it was worth it!

I will be monitoring the threads and will give advice where I can.

Charles
aka: Wannabeamodder