October 2004
The Archives
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10.28.04The Eirikso HTPC (old version running ShowShifter)This is the setup of my HTPC. A NAD programmable remote in the front. HTPC in the upper left space of the rack.
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10.28.04The front of a modified case.Front. As on the back of the case: the very small ventilation holes have been modified with a power drill. Filter from a vacuum cleaner...
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10.28.04The back of a modified case.> Back. The very small ventilation holes have been modified with a power drill.
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10.28.04Inside a messy HTPC…The extremely messy inside.... Please note the 300GIG Maxtor HD laying carefully on a bed of cables in the lower left corner. I am not going to move the box, and this way the HD makes less noise compared to if it was fastened in one of the drive bays. ...and, it serves as a self-destruct mechanism if somebody should steal my HTPC... :-) The 160GIG Seagate Barracuda is in one of the 5 1/4-bays mounted in a NoVibes drive kit. It is completely silent!
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10.28.04SpecCase: NoiseControl Desktop Black Mainboard: Epox EP 8RDA3+ CPU: AMD Athlon XP2000+ CPU Cooler: MIST Silent Twin 512 MB Ram PC2700 Screen card: MSI Geforce4 Ti4800SE-VTD PSU: Enermax 350W Modified by NoiseControl Case fan: GlacialTech Hard drives: Seagate Barracuda7 160 GIG Mounted With NoiseControl NoVibes Maxtor 300 GIG 5400RPM DVD: Pioneer Slot In SCSI DVD-304 Adaptec AIC-7850 PCI SCSI Controller Floppy drive Vantex Nexus Temperature Monitor and fan control RedRat3 IR Blaster Evation IRMan IR Reciever Ruwido InfraBoard IR Keyboard and mouse Software: ShowShifter Girder TVHolic XMLTV RedRat3 Command Line Utility Running video input from a Motorola Di5000 digital cable set top box. Taking RGB out of the Motorola Box, converting it to S-Video in an RGB-to-S-Video converter from JS Technologies and sent into the ...