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>Mac mini PPC / 1.42 Ghz / 1GB RAM / 74.41GB 4200rpm 2.5" / Airport + Bluetooth / 10.4.7 / 20.1" LG widescreen >G4 400 PPC / 20 gig / 768MB RAM / ZIP drive / 10.4.7 /17" apple SD / Back up system >Powerbook Titanium 1Ghz / 40GB / 512MB RAM / mashed up and waiting for a good mod! >Macintosh SE/30
Registered: 11/16/07
Posts: 1816
Loc: Florida, USA
I got half of the mod complete. The LCD is installed and the Amp is wired up. I had to almost gut the inside of my car to do it. I took out the backseat and the dash to run the cable for the Amp and VGA. I ran into a small problem with this mod so far. The stick shift on my car is now broken I have to use a ballpoint pen to make the car ge out of park. Now I have to end up getting a after market stick shift knob. Last time I installed one of thoses it kept comming lose or undone.
Besides that problem all I have to wait for now is the logicboard, memory, GPS, DVD drive and two more laptop HD to desktop adapters.
Registered: 11/16/07
Posts: 1816
Loc: Florida, USA
I bought a cheap-o stick shift knob at pep-boys. It goes well with my car's theme. Crome and slate/carbonfiber.
I have made quite a bit of videos and also worked on a how-to guide for my project. The howto guide will be on my car club's DIY page and also i'm going to try and put a copy here. Also there is a huge secret with this project as well.
Registered: 11/16/07
Posts: 1816
Loc: Florida, USA
I have ran into a problem. I was checking up on my mod to the power supply since it's a ATX power supply and found out I can't use a Digital Audio logicboard for my mod. Pin22 on the power supply for the DA needs 24 to 28 volts just so it can boot and it is used for ADC video. Unless there's a way to bypass this with a inverter circut? If anyone has some ideas for me to still beable to use the board then let me know.
is there any way you could go straight from the dc-dc converter to that pin (i.e. does the dc-dc have a 24 or 28 output)? or are there any pins in the power supply that the logic board doesn't need?
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If your not going to be using the ADC jack, you can suppy only 12v to that line and the board should power up fine, at least it did for me when I used an ATX supply in my DA.
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MacBook Pro, 2.2GHz SR Core 2 Duo, 120GB HD, 2GB RAM, PowerMac G5, DP 2GHz, 2GB RAM, 1x500GB HD, Sonnet Tempo X4P, 2TB RAID, ATI 9650 256MB.
Registered: 11/16/07
Posts: 1816
Loc: Florida, USA
I ordered three 2.5 laptop to standard IDE adapters and they came in today. I'm using two 20GB drives and a 6.5GB drive. 20GB will be for OSX and a few pograms and the other 20GB will be for music and the 6.5GB will be used for swap.
Registered: 11/16/07
Posts: 1816
Loc: Florida, USA
I just tested out the drives and both 20GB drives work but the 6.5GB drive doesn't work. So now im just stuck to make a 1GB partition on my main drive.
Also the memory has came in. 1stick of 512MB PC133 thanks krusher117!