Thread: 1994 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme SL - not done yet, but close

Originally Posted by rdholtz

But Maybe You Could "Run What Ya Brung"
You're pretty ingenious, so, instead of buying a solution, how about modifying the system you've built?

That gave me an Idea

I wanted a swing arm, the keyboard and screen were blocking the AC/Heater
controls, radio, and cup holders, so I went to the hardware store and got
some aluminum square tubing, lock nuts, washers and bolts, also some
more pipe fittings and made this



I welded the head of the bolts to the washers, and then welded the
washers to the pipe couplers like this



and then I put it together like this, in the second drawing I am not
counting the washer that I welded



Here is what it looks like put on my mount



and extended out a little



And one more shot for the heck of it

Originally Posted by will1384

I wanted a swing arm . . .

You're not only ingenious, you're equipped to make the most of the ideas. Terrific job!

Out of the blue I had a problem with the M4-ATX it would not boot,
and booted up once in the middle of the night, I know because I went
outside to take a break from the computer work in the house, and the
keyboard was glowing in my car, I reset the M4-ATX and changed
some wiring, what I think was going on is that the M4-ATX uses
the difference in voltages between the ACC and 12v+ to figure out
if it should come on or not, I was feeding it 12v+ to both threw a
relay, I think it got confused

This is how it is now, the switched 12v+ goes to my LCD power
adapter, USB power adapter, and RF transmitter



I have not had any more problems, and its been about 2 weeks

Later on this week I am getting in a wireless card
should be fun, but I expect I will lose a little computer speed
when I install Anti-virus and Anti-Spyware, I will most likely just
use Avast and Spybot, and try out Comodo Firewall, Sunbelt
Personal Firewall, and Online Armor Personal Firewall, to see what
"does not" slow down the computer to much

Originally Posted by will1384

Later on this week I am getting in a wireless card
should be fun, but I expect I will lose a little computer speed
when I install Anti-virus and Anti-Spyware, I will most likely just
use Avast and Spybot, and try out Comodo Firewall, Sunbelt
Personal Firewall, and Online Armor Personal Firewall, to see what
"does not" slow down the computer to much

Go carefully with that Comodo firewall. I had a very unhappy time with it, found it refused to completely uninstall, and ended up being unable to pry it out of my laptop. I rebuilt the system to get rid of it. I haven't tried the other two firewalls. I've had good luck with Avast and AVG antivirus, and haven't heard any negatives about Spybot.

Originally Posted by rdholtz

Go carefully with that Comodo firewall. I had a very unhappy time with it, found it refused to completely uninstall, and ended up being unable to pry it out of my laptop. I rebuilt the system to get rid of it. I haven't tried the other two firewalls. I've had good luck with Avast and AVG antivirus, and haven't heard any negatives about Spybot.

Yea I read a few reviews that sounded bad about Comodo Firewall,
guess its off the list, I need a small fast firewall, without all the
bloatware and free

I installed

EW-7128G IEEE 802.11b/g PCI Wireless Card

And

Nvidia GeForce 440 MX AGP Video Card - Old, but low power, about 30w

But when I installed antivirus and firewall software it slowed the
computer down, it now takes 1 minute 10 seconds to boot - and
that's with every tweak known to man for Windows XP

- Boot time was around 30 seconds -

I am using Avast and Sygate Personal Firewall 5.6

I ether need to find faster antivirus and firewall software, or figure
something else out

I might end up getting a new motherboard and CPU, the one I am using
is about 8 years old

Originally Posted by will1384

. . . when I installed antivirus and firewall software it slowed the computer down, it now takes 1 minute 10 seconds to boot - and that's with every tweak known to man for Windows XP

- Boot time was around 30 seconds -

I am using Avast and Sygate Personal Firewall 5.6

I ether need to find faster antivirus and firewall software, or figure
something else out

I'm not sure where you plan to surf with that carPC, but -- given normal usage -- that firewall may be unnecessary. The Windows firewall only blocks incoming traffic, but it seems to do a good job, and the Sygate one may be slowing you down for very little benefit. Since my unpleasant experience with Comodo, I've run using only the XP firewall, and have had no issues.

Your antivirus is critical, and Avast is fine for a relatively fast machine. But it's pretty heavy for older ones. You might want to consider AVG, which seems somewhat lighter, especially on aging hardware.

Originally Posted by rdholtz

I'm not sure where you plan to surf with that carPC, but -- given normal usage -- that firewall may be unnecessary. The Windows firewall only blocks incoming traffic, but it seems to do a good job, and the Sygate one may be slowing you down for very little benefit. Since my unpleasant experience with Comodo, I've run using only the XP firewall, and have had no issues.

Your antivirus is critical, and Avast is fine for a relatively fast machine. But it's pretty heavy for older ones. You might want to consider AVG, which seems somewhat lighter, especially on aging hardware.

I got an old Dell Optiplex GX260 reinstalled windows and installed
every thing like I had in the car, except no antivirus, no firewall
no antispyware, it booted in 25 to 30 seconds, I rebooted a few
times just to check, and it stayed 25 to 30 seconds

I then installed AVG, and for the first few reboots it was fast
about 35 seconds, but after the 3rd reboot it jumped to 44
seconds and has stayed there, even though I did nothing but,
reboot let it run for a few minutes and then reboot, I did that
over and over just to check

It seams to linger at the welcome screen like its waiting for something
- I had thought network, but I am using static IP address even out in
the car

Next stop, using BootVis to see whats going on

Some of the places I will be using WiFi I will need a good firewall

I was able to speed up the Dell Optiplex GX260 just by disabling
the welcome screen and using autologin, got it back down to 35
seconds, I still wonder what changed in the first place to slow it
down

BootVis is showing no change, its just that I am able to see the desktop
and click on things 10 seconds before it stops booting, that's 10 seconds
that the welcome screen was hiding the desktop