hahaha ! Nah seriously one of my first searches was "VFD screen". I even asked my pal, who bought the exact same SS screen for his Alienware if he still had it. Big plans... Sadly as it went on I realised just how hard it was all going to be. And yeah, that bit with the front is a massive pain. I have had that out and back in about 100 times at least, and it is all a precision fit. So get it wrong and the power button jams, or the DVD doesn't line up etc. That is why I spent the tenner on a 2.4ghz remote, rather than upsetting the apple cart and peeing around trying to get the RF one in there. I'm over it lol. I saw the one in the FS section. I even typed up "I will take that" about ten times and then my head overruled my heart and I deleted the post Age. LOL. Biting and chewing and all of the things I have wised up to !
Just a brief one for today. Obviously I am now waiting on more stuffs to arrive. But good news ! a friend of a friend over that way is coming over tomorrow, and will deliver the board etc for me. Orsum. I did do a couple of tiny bits though. The first thing worrying me was the incredibly stiff HDMI cable. So I bought a specialty flexible one yesterday. Cost very little, but will make life much easier for sure. I then found an assortment of the correct type of screw in the scrap box from when I stripped it and then proceeded to cut them all down so they don't bow the acrylic floor. This took some doing, but after a bit of that and some drilling to make the missing ones go in it was done. BTW that misty crap all over it? bah. I didn't realise what that was until it refused to go away after the alchol I used to clean it had evaporated. It is paint. Silver over spray from when Mr Dingus got out 'is penz innit. So I will need to clean that about 4 times now, like the front, to get off every bit and stop it smearing. Thankfully there is none on the top (I hope !). I also bought the cable that will connect it to the AV32. I realised last night that in my experiments I hacked up the only other digital cable I had lmao. Got a posh one, 'cause why not (well when I say posh I paid £25 for it, about the same as I spent on the other analogue ones).
Paying money for a RCA cable feels odd to me. Those things are like coat hangers. Over time you accumulate so many of them you eventually start throwing the old ones away.
I just wanted nice quality ones. I promised myself at the beginning when the AV processor arrived I would do it properly. As I bought all of the amps used none came with cables. I got these. Which IIRC were around £25 a set. They will remain in the system now. I also made up all of my own power cables for around the same each. As I say, quality not snake oil. I don't have a lot of spare RCAs, and the ones I do are literally the throw away ones with the awful connectors on.
So sound solution still to be done it is almost there. I thought I was going to have to redo the ATX connector to shorten it but it seems it was the perfect length. Set it up. One very quick installation later. English DVD (Region 2?) US DVD (Region 1) Oooo really? *grin*
OK so that was pretty frustrating. I could not get any add ons to work, nor the weather thing. It kept coming up with a failed message. So every time you boot everything was failing. It turned out it was the USB NIC. For some reason it installs, and you can see it, and you can sign in, and put in the password, and get an IP and it says connected, but it doesn't work. The only way around it was this. It's not pretty but at least it now works.
Floor Cheetos, Anusol... Man, you leave way too much information in your pictures. Also- Any plans for getting some passive airflow on that ?
lmao the anusol. Gees. That has been there for ages and ages. I've never even used it. I think I bought it like two years ago and chucked it there when Amazon brought it and it has been there ever since. What's wrong with Cheetos? the flaming hot ones are dope ! I'm not sure it needs airflow dude. It uses 17w. Like, a guy set one up on YT and total power draw was 17w. It's like I said to another guy on another forum, it probably draws, uses less power than, and creates less heat than the original CD player and that had no fans. The right angled RCA connectors came today. However, I am going to heed my own lessons and wait until the sound things arrive.
OK forgot to say. The board does not support PCIE booting. So the Optane was out, sadly. That is why it isn't in there. Which is probably for the best, given I needed the slot for the WIFI card. So earlier I designed this. And had the machine machine it for me.
Wee table for the sound device to be screwed to. Just lifts it up above the wiring down there so it doesn't get tangled.
You've got the best eye when it comes picking highlights from photos. I was just enjoying watching Vault pull this together.
Blimey I forgot what a pain in the buttocks a protected CD is ffs. Ripped a CD yesterday from the very early 2000s and it sounded awful. Absolutely awful. I played it, sounded the same until I skipped through some tracks. It then sounded fine, so I ripped it and it came out good. Just had the same issue with a CD set from the same era. Sounded totally washed out and horrible. Then I remembered that they added protection to CDs to stop you ripping them. IE, if you ripped one it would sound absolutely terrible. Problem was some players played them like that lmao. So it seems I have to play the CD, skip the tracks until it sounds right, THEN rip it. I am glad they stopped doing that. It's amazingly annoying !
I've had more issues with the drm making the disc undetectable by a stock player. Ironically, I have to make a copy of them to get them to play. -And the last track on a long album ticking... Hate that.
Yeah the player doesn't half make a noise reading it initially. then people figured out they could just record the audio and convert it to MP3. So it was all a big waste of time.
