rulouder22

Just finished installing my Carputer in my 2000 GMC Yukon Denali.

Specs:
-Mobo: VIA M10000 Nehemiah Core
-Power: OPUS 150w - Optima YellowTop Deep Cycle battery - 4 awg cable
-Signal: Stock head unit running through stock Bose amp/speakers via aux input conv.
-40gb hard drive
-Wi-Fi: Netgear 54Mbps WG111 Wireless USB 2.0 Adapter
-Using 'modified' Onstar box as GPS unit
-7" Lilliput put into digitalww dash kit by myself

Here's my truck:


Gutted the stock CD changer and mounted motherboard standoffs to mount the M10000:


Another shot of the motherboard mounted:


Mounted the 40gb hard drive to the outside of the changer housing:


Changer housing assembled with components installed:


Had to remove the rear of the changer housing so that the mobo would fit:


Front cover of changer installed:


Front cover open:


Optima YellowTop Deep Cycle battery:


4 AWG cable:

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rulouder22

Lilly w/ Digitalww housing installed in truck:


Inside of front center console with power distribution and OPUS installed - data cables running down the left, power running down the right (the big black enclosure is the stock Bose subwoofer):


A shot of the stock changer mounting location:


Changer (aka carputer) installed with console put back together:


Changer with front door open:


Closeup of changer with front door open:


Windows XP SP2 installed and running:


MediaCar:


Wireless keyboard:


Routis using 'modified' Onstar GPS unit:


And... Microsoft Streets and Trips 2005 (lots of new GPS features compared to 2004!!):



I've got a TDR085 slot loading DVD drive on it's way!

Thanks to everyone at MP3Car for the tons of helpful info and product reviews!

SnyperBob

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Nice truck man. Why did you completely change your stock CD player? You should just installed the machine in the back of the truck somewhere, and kept your CD changer intact.

You're install does look nice and clean inside the center console - I'll give you that. Denali's r0k

rulouder22

Why keep the CD changer when you have 10's of thousands of MP3's on hand? Plus I wanted more of a 'stealthy' look.

tschmidty

Looks very nice, I like the stealth look too of having where the cd changer is. And why would you need a cd changer when you can have all your cds available?

SnyperBob

Good points. I agree, I actually made my first post before he posted the second set of pics. That is really sweet. Do you have more info on your modded GPS receiver?

jimmythecow

very nice

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rulouder22

I think I can post a link to the onstar mod - it's not malicious in any way...

http://members.cox.net/onstar/

SnyperBob

What is the digitalww housing that you are using w your screen? Does that allow it to be in dash? I just tried looking it up...
DWW-7VGT
http://www.digitalww.com/DWW-7VGT.htm

Is that what you have?

kingtut

Nice job - how did you modify the OnStar GPS? good idea though

rulouder22

This is the housing that I bought from digitalww: http://www.digitalww.com/indashhousing.htm
There are instructions on his site that walk you through taking apart the lilliput and installing it into this housing... the buttons work and everything! It's really a nice setup.

SnyperBob

Cool man, thanks for the link!

Change

Nice mounting job in the CD changer case. How has the heat buildup been?

Also, with the OnStar GPS, I'm sure you'll get good performance...I believe they use Motorola OnCore GPS receivers.

rulouder22

The heat buildup surprisingly hasn't been bad. I bought an extra fan that I was planning on using to suck the hot air out of the console but I don't think I'll need it. I've already had it running for 4 hours straight with no issues.

The only problem I had with the Onstar GPS is that Windows kept trying to recognize it as a serial mouse. So... in case someone else has this problem in the future, I was able to get it to work by making this change to the registry:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\sermouse]
"Start"=dword:00000004

The NoSerialMouse or NoSerialMice or FastDetect:COM1 all did not resolve the issue.

darkhalo

niiiiiice setup!!! very creative

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Screen: Lilliput 7" touchscreen (Custom made Carbon Fiber Screen Enclosure)
S2000 Carputer

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