HTPC Project... Use for an old amp.. just finished

unklerosco · 09-08-2006 9:56pm #1

Been working on this for a while, little side project.. Just finished it tonight..

Its an old toshiba amp thats been in the shed for ages, wanted a basic HTPC to stream vids, music n photos to my plasma.. so i stripped it out, stuck a pc in it and presto.. Works a treat. The innards are from a dell optyplex i got off Gline.. Was an uncanny fit, everything was spot on.. Cheers to WizZard for dropping it over to me earlier..

All thats left is to hook the front vfds up, finish the backplate n get me a copy of XP MCE n a remote...

unklerosco · 09-08-2006 9:56pm

Worklog n that avail here

awhir · 09-08-2006 10:14pm

love the last pic.

very cool idea man and it looks great you should satrt sell them to the old people who dont like the look of new pcs

PogMoThoin · 09-08-2006 10:16pm

Deadly job..............the worklog is my nights reading sorted out

WizZard · 09-08-2006 11:04pm

Very nice - looks great. Pity I was in such a rush as I would've loved to see this

hopeful · 10-08-2006 10:20am

Thats a real nice mod. I love the way those old amps look.

WizZard · 10-08-2006 10:34am

Now, buy my stuff and build a great, powerful mod with it

unklerosco · 10-08-2006 11:35am

I think u should sponser me with ur stuff so i can mod it ;-)

nearly fin the amp, have the gauges at the front moving... kinda, just installing the os now n she's ready to go..

gline · 10-08-2006 2:27pm

so thats what u did with that dell

hehe

hey man u should see the car pc i got , you'd love it,

the whole pc is exactly the size of a standard cdrom drive for a pc, and it is a pentium m socket 479 pc with 2 dimm slots :eek:

heres the link

http://www.kingyoung.com.tw/S625.htm

unklerosco · 10-08-2006 2:50pm

Was gonna get one of them for my truck.. They're class little units..

gline · 10-08-2006 2:52pm

yeh and cheap , i cant wait to get all the bits, cpu is on the way from usa :rolleyes: 1.6ghz 2meg cache pentium m
cant wait and a nice 80gig lappy drive going into it

unklerosco · 10-08-2006 4:08pm

Installed XP MCE earlier without a hitch... so thats that

mad mans lab..

finito

deckie27 · 11-08-2006 8:10pm

gline wrote:

so thats what u did with that dell hehe

hey man u should see the car pc i got , you'd love it,

the whole pc is exactly the size of a standard cdrom drive for a pc, and it is a pentium m socket 479 pc with 2 dimm slots :eek:

heres the link

http://www.kingyoung.com.tw/S625.htm

Where would some purchase one of these?

Cheers
Dec

gline · 11-08-2006 8:48pm

deckie27 wrote:

Where would some purchase one of these?

Cheers
Dec

ebay

HTPC Project... Use for an old amp.. just finished

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