Originally Posted by HyperSprite

Buff, you can say mac, it's been done, seen it on this board.

Screens, Different people set this stuff up differently, depends what you want. You can hook your monitor up to the 12V rail of your PC power supply, so it's on when your computer is. Or in my case, I ran a switch and relay so I can turn the audio on without the key (show/parked mode) or with accessory like the factory and it will come on with the key. Most screens auto on and auto off when you apply and remove power.

The real trick with these CarPCs is a good DC to DC power supply that knows what to do when you start your car (and have very little power to run with), shut off your car (want it to send a graceful shutdown to the mobo, maybe keep it running for 15 minutes before shutting down, etc), look for Opus and M2-ATX power supplies.

Blurry, no, The screens I have seen people use, Xenarc, Lilliput and Dynamix have a real fine dot pitch and many more pixels than you can possible use. They look awesome. I have an early model hooked up to this computer and it, set at 800x600 it looks just as good as my Viewsonic VP9206 at 1280x1024, only much smaller. It's cool.

Chris

Originally Posted by MERK350Z

thanks dave its all good i checked out your log and you got a sweet *** setup i was going to change my system but i like the bose system and i kind of paid for it so it does not make any sense to take it out plus the harness and the new sound card in my laptop makes a differance. what front end software are you using ?

Originally Posted by Dave 90TT

I use FrodoPlayer and iGuidance for Nav. The skin is the RexBruMet brushed aluminum skin that I modified to fit my G. However, I am thinking about changing to RoadRunner, because it has more options, and currently is still being supported by the creator, while Frodo (of Frodoplayer) seems to have dissappeared.

I still have the Bose head unit, I've just replaced all the speakers and the amps. The Bose head unit is actually really good, it's just that the speakers and amps are sub-par.

Anyways, your set-up, like I said, is very nice as well.

Dave

Originally Posted by MERK350Z

i tried to download frodo but i could not find it , also the RR front end i had some issues with that one could not get it to load on my laptop it just gave me some issues so i am using media engin works good only for one thing when it wont play music while the navi is running in the program i guess because it changes screens it stops the music.

Originally Posted by HockeyZ39

Can you post up the dc to dc you used?

Originally Posted by silvrhand

Nice..

Have you seen these as well?

http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=11#vkmpk12

Originally Posted by HockeyZ39

How does it work? You have to launch the front end after windows starts? Or does it start up on its own every time windows powers up?

Originally Posted by MERK350Z

hey everyone my car pc is done here are a few pics of what i did

https://my350z.com/forum/attachment....1&d=1151900856

https://my350z.com/forum/attachment....1&d=1151900922

https://my350z.com/forum/attachment....1&d=1151900856
https://my350z.com/forum/attachment....1&d=1151900999
spcs:
IBM laptop x23 p3 900mhz 512 megs 40gigs
lilliput 7 inch touch screen
aux inputs for the system
creative sound card for laptop
802.11b adapter

Originally Posted by HockeyZ39

How does it work? You have to launch the front end after windows starts? Or does it start up on its own every time windows powers up?

Originally Posted by HockeyZ39

I have an OT question:

Would the software you guys are using for your car pc's work for a home media pc? I have an extra computer laying around with two 200 gig hard drives in it and a TON of MP3's and Movies so if I could set up a remote to work with it and software similar to the above it would make for a pretty sweet set up.

Originally Posted by HockeyZ39

^^^ so if I wire up a remote why would it not work for a home pc?