Project Turtle: 1993 Toyota Tercel/56K=FAIL - Page 5

freeflashstuff · 03-05-2009, 12:00 AM

NVM I already bought it. Looked online, found good reviews, almost no bad ones. Praying to God and gods of technology(lol) that this one's a keeper....

HiJackZX1 · 03-05-2009, 10:20 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by freeflashstuff

NVM I already bought it. Looked online, found good reviews, almost no bad ones. Praying to God and gods of technology(lol) that this one's a keeper....

Now you do know this is a desktop mobo, not a mini-atx. So it will be a bit bigger...... When you first install your Mobo in a car PC enviroment you usually kill it since there are no blue prints on how to do it. On the second time you will know the mistakes you made and avoid them. Im on my second mobo.

freeflashstuff · 03-05-2009, 11:26 AM

I will make it work... I get the feeling because it's a different mobo, I'll have to reinstall Windows XP. Am I right? This mobo is different in every way possible from my BioStar board

freeflashstuff · 03-05-2009, 11:45 AM

Actually....

Intel (Hazelton) 865GVHZ Motherboard
Features include:

A microATX form factor (

)
Intel(R) 865GV Chipset
Two 184-pin DDR SDRAM Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM) sockets
Support for 2 GB of system memory
Intel(R) Extreme Graphics 2 controller
Intel(R) Pro 10/100 NIC Ethernet LAN subsystem using the Intel(R) 82562EZ Platform LAN Connect (PLC) device
Audio subsystem for AC '97 processing using the Realtek ALC202A codec
Support for USB 2.0 devices

I/O plate not included though... Oh, well. I can figure something out for that... It helps to have friends in the PC repair business.

freeflashstuff · 03-07-2009, 01:57 AM

Update: Fiberglassing.

Fiberglass strips to fill gaps:

Applying fiberglass jelly to the bezel:

Finished product (for now...

)

HiJackZX1 · 03-07-2009, 09:15 AM

I am not into fabrication, at least not with fiberglass. I have never heard of fiberglass jelly. Is it easy to work with.... Also I would tape up your screen so the jelly doesnt stick to the EBY. So all you have to do now is just sand it and do filling in a few more places. I think you would get it closer to perfection if you take it out of the car and work on it.

freeflashstuff · 03-07-2009, 11:03 AM

It's like epoxy, there's the can of jelly and a tube of hardener. You apply it as quick as possible because once it sets it turns into a rubbery type stuff then it gets hard. While it's kinda rubbery, you can mold it the way you want it. I had electrical tape on the screen cause I couldn't find clear tape or plastic wrap. I'm not the one doing all the work with the fiberglass. Saul is still helping me out. I left the bezel with him so he could do some work on it. I'm having to make time to go see him so I can get this done. I'm gonna try to meet up with him again today to finish it. UPDATE; mobo will be in on the 10th!

freeflashstuff · 03-08-2009, 12:26 AM

+1 pic!

freeflashstuff · 03-11-2009, 09:07 PM

Got the new motherboard yesterday, works perfect. Turns out, not only did I fry the board, I also fried the 480W PSU I had, and my 1Gb stick of RAM. I'm currently borrowing 512Mb of DDR DIMM RAM from a friend until I can buy him new ones or me new ones. I fortunately backed up all my data (except videos

) I officially switched to Centrafuse!! YAY!!!

freeflashstuff · 03-12-2009, 11:27 AM

Turns out that I also fried my 120Gb HD that I had all of my stuff on... BUT, I had an external 500Gb HD that I took apart and it's SATA, so I got my first experience with a SATA install. Now, I'm trying to restore all of my data...

HiJackZX1 · 03-12-2009, 12:14 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by freeflashstuff

Turns out that I also fried my 120Gb HD that I had all of my stuff on... BUT, I had an external 500Gb HD that I took apart and it's SATA, so I got my first experience with a SATA install. Now, I'm trying to restore all of my data...

holy cr@p, so youve pretty much had to replace everything? What are you using to power the PC? A inverter or DC-DC PSU?

freeflashstuff · 03-12-2009, 12:17 PM

A 1000W, hard-wired, pure sine-wave inverter. And ya, I pretty much burnt up everything...

Right now, it's all in "bench test", but I have remote access for when it's in the car and I need to update stuff. I just plug it into an extension cord and access over WiFi. I just need to cut a hole in the top piece of the case for ventillation, and everything will be done...

for now.

HiJackZX1 · 03-12-2009, 12:32 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by freeflashstuff

A 1000W, hard-wired, pure sine-wave inverter. And ya, I pretty much burnt up everything...

Right now, it's all in "bench test", but I have remote access for when it's in the car and I need to update stuff. I just plug it into an extension cord and access over WiFi. I just need to cut a hole in the top piece of the case for ventillation, and everything will be done...

for now.

I would just get rid of the inverter. I have had 4 hubs, two wi-fi cards, and one aircard fried because of an inverter. I have since replaced all inverters with DC-DC units and have no issues at all.

freeflashstuff · 03-12-2009, 12:38 PM

The thing is, I don't have the $$$ for a DC-DC PSU now. All of the things that got fried were a direct result of my negligence while bench-testing. I let the CPU get too hot, and it ended up shutting everything down for safety, but it was too late, everything had already fried. The inverter had nothing to do with it (in this case.) I plan on getting an OPUS later on.

freeflashstuff · 03-13-2009, 11:06 AM

Got everything reinstalled, running good. Installed VNC and LogMeIn Free for remote access. I ran an extension cord out to my car last night so I could finish copying my backups back over. I lost more than half of my music, but I can get it all back through re-downloading it all(I hope). To recover the hard drive would cost more than $2k, so that's out of the picture...

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