Hi everyone, nice site here! Heres my Case atm: [sorry for big pics ] Since the CD-RW is stealthed (did it yesterday) im going to stealth the DVD drive. Then i'll change some of my case fans to blue LED fans. Im also going to make a fanbus in one of my 5 1/2 bays to control the fans (noisy at 12v!) and i hope to finish it off with some tinted [black] perspex over the drives (inside the door) Im hoping to get the fanbus finished today and im going to modify regular IDE cables and put tubing around them Don't expect anything uber expensive as i only get $AUD20 a week pocket money (im only 13) cheers
The pics arn't that big on a 1280x1024 screen But one question though, how did you afford that thing on $20 a week?
the actual case was a christmas present, but all the other stuff was bought by me i got given the old family PC, an 800mhz P3 (my dad bought a P4 for the family) I bought a new mobo, CPU, RAM, and graphics card have been upgraded, but other than that everything if as it was in the P3, still only got a wimpy 30gig HDD and 24x burner, but thats OK with me anyways im working on a graphic for the side of my monitor. i'll keep ya updated! PC specs, nothing special, but im no hardcore gamer ASUS A7V600 AMD 1800+xp @ 2ghz and 36oC Coolermaster Aero7+ cooler @ 2200rpm 256mb PC 2100 RAM (Kingston)
aight, today i finished my fan controller the long delay was caused by the WIRE MELTDOWN hehe its currently testing it but im not totally satisfied with it (fans too slow at low-speed, 5volts) im going to take some pictures soon, and then i'll try and get 7 volts instead of 5 volts for the low speed option. *pics coming soon...
its been quite a while, but anyways... my ultra cheap fan controller and stealthed cd drive CD Drive: on the far left; green led for reading on cd drive and red for burning all the cables at the back Beauty shot and a little video (.WMV in a zip) note how on one switch, i push hard and the whole plate slides up a bit, i still need to secure the whole thing properly, buts its pretty tightly in atm Click me for video
hehe dude that is cool. For 13 to. LOL, like the INTEL webcam, that wasss my reall old one, I had years ago. *hugs his logitech 4000pro*. Nice work dude.
dude, how did you do the burner read/write activity leds? me would likes to know if you wants to explain great job on the baybus/fanbus too!
i had a LITE-ON cd-rw, First i had to eject the drive and then turn off the system and take it out. i carefully removed the plate on the end of the tray, allowing me to slide the whole front plate of the drive right off then i unscrewed the metal bottom of the drive. (you WILL void the warrenty, as everything else but yer) from here i found out where the LEDs pins were, so i found the solder joints on the PCB where the dual colour LED was. i soldered a 3 conductor wire on to it, i put newspaper over the rest of the board when soldering, so i don't damage any of the controller chips under there (they are very fragile and sensitive!) after i had my three wires soldered to where the existing LED from the drive connected, i ran them to my fan controller, the middle wire being the ground and the two other wires for the + of each of the LEDs. i didn't solder them on first just so i could get the right colours for the right activity
funky monkies and cool bananas, thanks heaps for that info! will b used wisely (i assume they are 3.3V LEDs u used, with no resistors... juz wire straight from the drive pcb to the LEDs legs...) skyrex.
yer but the one inside the cd drive seemed pretty standard-ish, and lite-on wouldn't go and put some high-voltage one in so i gues it was pretty safe, worst thing that could of happened is that they glow REALLY bright, and i pull the plug on my comp
Hey man, nice job on the case there! I am just getting into the modding side of things, and I was wondering if you could tell me where you buy your parts and stuff? I live in Australia too, so I can get from the same place you do If they will post stuff to me
all the Leds switchs and electronics stuff, is from Jaycar. computer hardware from: -CPU (www.cpl.net.au) -MSY (www.msy.com.au) and plastic and tubes and stuff from hardware places
W00T TIME FOR MORE N00B MODDING! ok: i didn't like the look of the of the gold sticker on the side of my PSU, so lets hide it BEFORE: AFTER: hard to see but its a round shape or black plastic with a pice of plexi, the same shape but larger, infront of it, also put an ANTEC badge on it becuase i had nowhere else for it so my Keyboard hey green lights (YUK) so they had to go: to go with the stealthing i mounted the AERO7 control on the original floppy panel, instead of the brushed silver coolermaster panel, which didn't have the proper screw fit anyway. Started stealthing the DVD: needs the drive rails cut so it sits back a bit more i experimented with this plexi AMD logo i cut, was too big and couldn't bee seen through the window on the PSU cover thing, so i trashed the following idea: but you can see the logo IGNORE THE WHITENESS! IT WAS PVA GLUE! ok so that sums up my n00bie modding for the moment, more to come soon
cleaned up some wiring. im slowly stealthing everything on the front.. i got hold of the digital camera, so heres some bigger pics
