My first post from my truck....Thats right, Oh yeah.

BADDERICK · 07-11-2005, 10:01 PM

Just wanted to share, IT'S ALIVE........HA hA ha. I'm online, In my garage. running off nothing but my truck. Everything looks great so far.

Heres a pic. I'm freaking grinning from ear to ear

It's been running about twenty minutes so far, Not even a hiccup.......Yeah baby.

Bugbyte · 07-11-2005, 10:29 PM

Run it for another 40 minutes or so and it'll hiccup.

Congrats!

thefreeauction · 07-11-2005, 10:48 PM

Cool. I can't wait to get mine going.

We should have a seperate section in the forum for "In my car" posts.

BADDERICK · 07-11-2005, 10:57 PM

Ok, How about an hour and a half? Here's a few more pics.

turbocad6 · 07-11-2005, 11:17 PM

yeah, I't's pretty exciting to get your computer in the car online & feel the power......just think.....after you've had it long enough you will really miss it if it goes down or if you have to drive a vehicle without it......to me a pc in the car is as basic of a necessity as a cellphone or a/c, you just come to depend on it so much that you can't do without it....welcome to the club!!!

BADDERICK · 07-12-2005, 03:28 AM

Well, I guess I spoke to soon. It ran great for about two hours. I had a few more updates to do so I figured I would do them in the car. it got done updating and went to restart and it never came back on....It said windows was shutting down. The screen went blank and then nothing. Fans spin but thats it. I unplugged it and took it back out. Hooked it up to another monitor and my battery charger again and no signal to the screen.

I think it's time for bed :-(

shizzle · 07-12-2005, 03:35 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by BADDERICK

Well, I guess I spoke to soon. It ran great for about two hours. I had a few more updates to do so I figured I would do them in the car. it got done updating and went to restart and it never came back on....It said windows was shutting down. The screen went blank and then nothing. Fans spin but thats it. I unplugged it and took it back out. Hooked it up to another monitor and my battery charger again and no signal to the screen.

I think it's time for bed :-(

Bummer.

Don't lose sleep over it, you'll figure it out better after some rest. Good luck. It's part of the passion...

stimps · 07-12-2005, 04:36 AM

Its a kewl feeling when you finally get it all finished and sorted. Mine has been operating without any problems, besides one crashed Hdd, (I dropped it 2 months earlier on concrete, so thats expected) for a little over a year now. Then I had to take it all out (sub box, amps, etc) to swap out a bad shock absorber, and also, heard about the bad caps in the via motherboard thing, so I chose to remove the PC and screen, dvd player, everything, and do a freshen up. I changed the caps etc and rewired some of the cables to make it neater. Then I noticed how much I missed it while driving around!! Within the week it was back in! New caps, new cables, new tank battery and simplified start up circiut (can now hybernate properly) and some more tweaks and improvements to the OS. Sweet!

Spike · 07-12-2005, 05:46 AM

looking good and congrats on getting her running.

I like the accent of the lights

tbird2340 · 07-12-2005, 08:07 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by BADDERICK

It's been running about twenty minutes so far, Not even a hiccup.......Yeah baby.

Quote: Originally Posted by BADDERICK

Ok, How about an hour and a half? Here's a few more pics.

Quote: Originally Posted by BADDERICK

Well, I guess I spoke to soon. It ran great for about two hours. I had a few more updates to do so I figured I would do them in the car. it got done updating and went to restart and it never came back on....

Sorry that is just funny to me.. I know how you feel though. There is ALWAYS and I mean ALWAYS hiccups.. But you will eventually get rid of them. Eat some peanut butter!

jimlad20 · 07-12-2005, 08:38 AM

Hey badderick is that a laptop LCD your running as a monitor??

BADDERICK · 07-12-2005, 10:32 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by jimlad20

Hey badderick is that a laptop LCD your running as a monitor??

It was an industrial touch screen. I took it all out and wired it to a piece of plexi. They do use the same LCD in some laptops though.

I haven't messed with it this morning at all yet.

BADDERICK · 07-12-2005, 09:08 PM

So anyone have any ideas of what happened? the wireing is all ok. I didn't touch anything. it just went to reboot and then nothing.

Gotta love computers

evandude · 07-12-2005, 09:22 PM

you try clearing the CMOS yet? if it's not working even during POST (or not POSTing) the it's gotta be a BIOS issue, because obviously windows hasn't had a chance to screw anything up until AFTER it POSTs

and sometimes you'll get lucky and it'll be okay after clearing the CMOS.

turbocad6 · 07-12-2005, 09:27 PM

unless it's hardware..............