In the midst of relocating everything.
I decided that while I was running the myriad of wires from the trunk, I may as well run another +12V and +5V from the M2ATX up front to power the screen along with the computer (12V) and power my USB hubs (5V). These wires will come from the MOLEX adapter on the M2-ATX. This way my screen will power on with the computer instead of from the accessory line, and will have a regulated 12V instead of whatever happens to be coming from the battery.
Wow are there a lot of wires to run...
I have all my power wires running along the driver side under the door trim and through to the trunk, while all the speaker, audio, VGA, USB, etc. are run under the passenger side door trim (to hopefully avoid any signal noise from the power lines).
I would be out there finishing it, but the rain has come
I also thought of a way to pass audio through the system without using Windows send the line in to line out (this will eliminate the need to wait for windows to boot to use the Aux. in as well as let me still play music when the car pc crashes). It will work, but it is very ghetto.
So here is the Aux. in solution...
3.5mm splitter running into the audio output of the PC, 3.5mm to RCA from one end of the splitter to the amp, aux input into the other end of the splitter. Very ghetto, but it works.
My only problem now is getting another VGA extension to run to the trunk from the speaker compartment, all I have is male to male and I need a male to female sometime this afternoon (and I'm broke till pay day). I'll make it work somehow.
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