Shame about your remote mate. Hope you get it all working correctly. Yes sleeving is a pain but in most cases it needs to be done. Just remember, measure twice, cut once.
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Shame about your remote mate. Hope you get it all working correctly. Yes sleeving is a pain but in most cases it needs to be done. Just remember, measure twice, cut once.
This project is officially on hold until I get my wife's system up and running. Something tells me that this motherboard is about to find a new home. :mad:
This is the first post from ROIO. I've installed Ubuntu 8.04 on here just to see what it is like. Plus, if I am going to make a custom geexbox build, I need the proper tools since it cannot be built in a Windows environment from what I have gathered. I'll get some pics up later tonight of my new and improved testing station, since my server is going to be sharing space here as well in the near future.
As for my wife's computer, it was nothing more than a loose cable thankfully.
And I am also very glad to report that my current ambient temp inside of ROIO is 31 C. And she's been running for about an hour now. :banana:
Very nice work buddy. You should be proud.
Yep, all that is left to do is sleeving, and I'm planning on knocking that out tomorrow. I might even leave Ubuntu on here and see if I can snag a different video card and turn this into a pseudo-HTPC. I've just got an 80 gig hard drive in here but for now that's all I really need.Quote:
Originally Posted by The boy 4rm oz
And there might be a few other minor mods in the future for this case, we'll have to wait and see.
It's good to see a fantastic mod finished buddy. Looking forward to seeing your next work of art. Thanks for the rep.
So, in the last week, I've more or less scrapped plans to use geexbox (even though it is some really cool software) and Mythbuntu 8.04 due to the fact that I cannot get either of these builds to play nicely with what very well could be my downfall--an ATI All In Wonder card that I should replace with something a bit more current, but we can never look a gift horse in the mouth, now can we?
Besides, I'm more than up for the challenge. I'm currently finishing up a SuSE 10.3 install (yeah yeah, bloated, I know) due to the fact that there might be a bit of hope according to this page. If I cannot get this to work within two weeks, I'm going to scrap this little excursion into scope creep and get this machine back to what it was originally intended for.
Here's hoping I can get some work done on this this weekend.
Hopefully you can get it working right for your needs.
HR 4279.
S.O.A.B.
All of a sudden, I've taken a strong interest in Government procedures.
And so the mod continues on. I've begun the very beginning of sleeving...and I realize I need more of it! 4 ft of sleeving ain't gonna cut it:
As you can see, I still have a bit of work to do--this might get done later today, it might not. Time will tell.
The is always work to be done lol.
Well...with Photobucket having some 'issues', I'm going to try this ImageShack approach. If all goes well, I'll start hosting the other files (and there's a ton of them) on IS as well.
The good news is that I got the fan array sleeved. The bad news is that I only have maybe a foot of the red sleeving left, and that's a generous estimation.
Hooked up to Blue for testing. I also found out that I've got a loose cable on one of my molexes within Blue by doing this. No worries, Frank will take care of that!
And the fruit of my labors! The red and the black coexist nicely. I'd love to put a window in this case, but am not sure if it would even be necessary, since once it is in its home, it won't be seen all that much.
I've ordered 20 feet each of 1/4" and 1/2" sleeving. I'm thinking it *could* be here by next Monday.
So, onto the next little project while I wait--modding the PSU. I've drained the cap, so I'll be opening that bad boy up and chopping away at the wires I do not need.
Double post time.
The Victim.
Unneeded appendages removed, ends taped up to prevent shorts.
New and improved zip tie holding the rat's nest together.
A much sleeker non-modular PSU. More hacking to commence on the wires once I get more sleeving.
The dearly departed.
I'll be taking this apart again and adding a couple holes to the side to accommodate another zip tie--the chopped wires inside are too close to the heat sink for my liking.
Yay for PSU modding lol. The red sleeving goes great with the black heat shrink.
red + black = win looking nice keep it up
Three things that I feel the need to mention:
#1: I may or may not be coming into some money tomorrow, and if the cards fall correctly, it may be a decent amount--decent enough to warrant a wide screen television.
This money may or may not be coming from a very legit source--the ball is in their court and I am at their mercy. I wish I didn't have to be so vague, but the situation deems it necessary. I will say this much--a phone call was made last month, and the results of that phone call led to the current state of affairs.
#2: If #1 comes to frutition, I will be buying a different AGP card that supports either S-Video or HDMI (if even such a card exists, I need to do some searching), and will be using this system as not only a ROIO box, but also a Myth Front End (I'll work on the back end at a later date).
#3: According to UPS, I've got 50 foot (25 feet each 1/4" and 1/2") sleeving arriving tomorrow. The PSU will get completed over the weekend, and then I'll start on the IR receiver.
I wish I could share more information regarding #1, but I can't.
That always seems to be the case. The unexpected pops up far too often. Case in point, I ran out of heat shrink, so I had to improvise and bust out the electrical tape:Quote:
Originally Posted by The boy 4rm oz
But the good news is, the PSU, with the exception of drilling a couple of hole to accommodate a zip tie, is done.
Next up, the USB and power cables.
hmm you is red i is black..tubes.. did u remove the molex b4 inserting the tubes? I was too lazy then so i just split the middle part of the tube, wrap them around n black wiretight them :P
I removed the 4 pin molexes with one of those universal molex pin remover tools that you can find for sale at jab-tech, xoxide, et al. Once I got the molexes off, I slid the sleeving on, and then the heat shrink and hit it with my heat gun. Then I reattached the molexes the wrong way (flipped 5V and 12V), realized what I had done once I got to the end (which is the way it always goes lol), and just got done fixing that little problem.
The 24 pin and 4 pin connectors going to the mobo have split loom on them.
you got the space to work on 2 mods... im working from my rented room which is now looking more like a dumpsite...
o/t: man a customer just bought a CM Cosmos 5 casing to the shop.. first time saw such a big case
Actually, I'm working on three mods. ROIO, Frank and the Filing Cabinet Server.Quote:
Originally Posted by Acey
Speaking of which...perhaps I'll throw some paint on that this weekend as well...
1 fan and USB cables to sleeve and this is done.
I thought I lost my pin remover tool, but recently found it, so this will be done possibly tomorrow, if not tonight.
Done enough for Gov't work anyways. I kinda buggered my IR receiver, but it's nothing some quality time with the soldering iron won't take care of.
ROIO Jukebox is finished! The last bit of modding that I had to do was finished not even 5 minutes ago:
The last fan that needed sleeved.
And the front panel. I removed the header cable for the audio ports, as they won't be used, nor is there any hookup on my board for them.
All sleeved up. I love it when a plan comes together!
I've got a bit of cosmetic work left, and then it'll be on to some glamour shots! But as far as I am concerned, this is my first completed mod.
Nice man, fire her up.
I did...and somehow, the motherboard got fried. But that's alright, I'm more of an AMD fan anyhow.Quote:
Originally Posted by The boy 4rm oz
I'll transplant a board and give it another go.
EDIT: $86.97 to get a new setup. I can have that saved up the rest of the way in about a month.
Oh unlucky mate.
On a whim, I decided to try adding a video card instead of using the onboard video. Needless to say, preliminary reports that this (yes, THIS) motherboard had been fried were exaggerated due to lack of sleep and not thinking clearly.Quote:
Originally Posted by DrumThumper
Yay, $86 I don't have to spend!
you should take some final pics to close the worklog out, nice clean shots with a clean background would make for a good ending.
Yep yep. Glamour shots coming real soon. I'll hook it up to my 22 inch LCD (about to install Xubuntu 8.04 and strip it) and my speakers.Quote:
Originally Posted by jdbnsn
Gives me a good reason to clean my desk off as well. It's a damn mess at the moment.
I'm guessing it's going down tonight.
Alright, the final shots. I didn't set this up on my desk, as my wall is a bit busy with posters and my dry erase board. So I cleaned off my workstation and set up there.
Decided to give Xubuntu (and my Lightscribe drive) a go. It was too bloated. So, I read a bit, and found out that MythBuntu has audio capabilities. Since this could get turned into an HTPC in the future, I thought this would be a good approach to go.
Like I said, I've been playing with my Lightscribe. The top disc is a 64 bit build of Ubuntu to be installed on Blue so I can dual boot, and the bottom one is MythBuntu. All three disks are 8.04 (Hardy Heron).
The remote that never got painted. Notice the nice sheen.
My homemade Ir receiver. I know I planned to have this in the system, but I was getting too much interference from the front panel.
At this point, form is following function. I had both sets of cables sleeved, but was picking up some nasty radio interference with this end of the cable sleeved. It was so bad that the receiver itself was sending ghosts (I think that is the right term) to any program that was remote capable. As you can see, right now, it is duct taped into place--this will be addressed in the near future.
I live in an apartment complex, so I had to bust out the headphones. Plus, I'm too damn lazy to move my speaker system across the room. The wife and I are looking at buying a house, if it goes through, this will be replaced with most likely a 5.1 speaker system.
There's the end result. Once I get the bugs worked out, this system will ultimately go headless.
MythBuntu going on its maiden voyage.
And the night shots:
I never did get around to switching out that green LED.
And the glow from the fans.
Thanks everyone for following along. Not every mod needs a window, or water cooling. Sometimes, you just have to bust out your soldering iron and git'r'done.
She looks great mate. I should play with my light scribe drive also lol.
Love the extreme lights from those fans. Too bad its hard or almost impossible to find Rosewill and AC Ryan's stuffs over here :(
+rep. Awesome work Joe!
