Car PC

[salvi]

If anyone has any questions or is interested in a CarPC setup, send me a PM.

[Legacy05GT]

Does anyone have a distribution block type battery terminal with the multiple outputs? Pics? I'm considering getting one to make my setup a bit more clean.

[andrew.anderson]

This MB may be of interest to many of you still selectign parts for your Car PC.

 

http://www.linuxdevices.com/files/misc/via_pc2500_gos_dev_board-sm.jpg

 

The gOS Dev Board is a Micro-ATX form-factor Via "PC-1" motherbased on a 1.5GHz Via C7 processor. The board's hardware specs are listed as follows:

• Processor -- Via C7-D 1.5GHz
  
• Chipset -- Via CN700 + VT8237R plus
  
• Memory -- 2 x DDRII slots, for up to 2GB
  
• Storage:
  • 2 x PATA interfaces (up to ATA133)
    
  • 2 x SATA interfaces (up to SATA150)
    
  • Floppy drive interface

  [*]Networking -- 10/100 Base-T Ethernet based on Via VT6103L PHY

  [*]Video -- Via UniChrome Pro IGP (VIA CN700)

  [*]Audio:

  • 
    
  • Based on Realtek ALC655 (supports 6 channels)
    
  • Connectors -- audio line out/in, mic jack

  [*]Other I/O:

  • VGA out
    
  • 4 x USB 2.0 ports
    
  • 2 x PS2 ports
    
  • Parallel printer port
    
  • Serial port
    
  • IR interface

  Expansion:

  • PCI slots
    
  • CNR slot

  [*]Power:

  • 20-pin ATX power connector
    
  • +12V 4-pin power connector
    
  • Supports ACPI S1/S4/S5 mode power management

  [*]Dimensions -- 7.5 x 9.0 inches (190 x 228 mm)

[Kargurra]

Does anyone have a distribution block type battery terminal with the multiple outputs? Pics? I'm considering getting one to make my setup a bit more clean.

Check out the "RIGrunners" at http://www.westmountainradio.com/.

 

I know the West Mountain Radio guys personally, and they're great...

[SubLo]

If I were going to do this, I'd really want to try and do a solid-state (no moving parts) storage system. A couple of 4GB or 8GB CFII cards might work. I think I've seen somebody do it somewhere on the Interweb. Extreme temperatures will wreak havoc on spinning disks with a few microns separating head from platter. That concerns me.

[f1anatic]

Extreme temperatures will wreak havoc on spinning disks with a few microns separating head from platter. That concerns me.

 

Well I made it thru a hot summer. Let me see what winter brings. I could live with replacing the hard drive once a year but yes...i would switch to a flash memory at least for the operating system.

[Kargurra]

You can now get 32GB and I believe 64GB solid state drives. They're available options on the Dell notebooks I order.

[SubLo]

You can now get 32GB and I believe 64GB solid state drives. They're available options on the Dell notebooks I order.

 

Uhh... yeah but (1) they're only availble on selct models and (2) they currently add like $500 or so to the price tag above a more generic build.

[BMac1203]

I ran my CarPC all through last winter in Albany, NY and all through this summer here as well.

 

Still running strong. I'm not worried.

 

Honestly, if it only last two years or so, I can get a new drive. 2.5" HDD's aren't anywhere near as expensive as they used to be AND are much better at handling temperature change and heavy shock than they used to.

[NSFW]

If I were going to do this, I'd really want to try and do a solid-state (no moving parts) storage system. A couple of 4GB or 8GB CFII cards might work. I think I've seen somebody do it somewhere on the Interweb. Extreme temperatures will wreak havoc on spinning disks with a few microns separating head from platter. That concerns me.

 

I'm told (though not from an authoritative source) that booting XP does a large number of small disk writes, which will wear out flash memory within a fairly small number of boot cycles. I don't know if "small" is on the order of 5, 50, 500, or 5000, but the guy I talked to said not to bother.

 

XP-Embedded has a feature called "enhanced write filter" that was added specifically to address this problem. Much as I like the idea of running without disks, I'm going to wait for XPe first.

[BMac1203]

Agreed.

 

My cousin works at Microsoft. He said that the reason that solid state storage hasn't taken off is not due to cost (although currently expensive). Longevity is the true reason. Although hard drives may theoretically wear out over time and are suceptible to damage, normal usage does not lower the performance/longevity as it does to solid state/flash storage.

 

Coming back from stand-by isn't as bad as booting from a cold state, but it still does require those minor writes as well.

[BMac1203]

Actually I would'nt mind asking him, he's a software engineer. Not on Windws though, he's on the XBox Development Team

 

There's actually a lot of things built into operating systems that people don't know about. But then again...I don't know about them hah:lol:

[NSFW]

The guys at mp3car.com have put together a way to enable EWF on Windows XP. EWF (Enhanced write filter) prevents Windows from writing back to the drive.

 

That would be sweet. I thought that code wasn't even in XP. Do you have a link? I just spent 15 minutes browsing search results for "EWF" over there and only found stuff about XPe, not straight XP.

[prelude]

Does anyone have a distribution block type battery terminal with the multiple outputs? Pics? I'm considering getting one to make my setup a bit more clean.

 

I did.

to ground my DSATX power supply

http://aycu12.webshots.com/image/5531/2000966408712862462_rs.jpg

below you can see my old motherboard, I replaced another MB with built in 6150 video, but u have idea how it look like

http://aycu17.webshots.com/image/6576/2000964438465282926_rs.jpg

[auto_emocion]

Something to share

 

I have stripped a Pyle 7" NTSC LCD panel and fixed it onto a RHD Navi Bezel.

LCD controls also retrofitted into original button location.

(Headphone) (AV IN) (AV1/AV2) (<) (Menu) (>) (Power) (IR) (LED)

[MaStaMooN]

Awesome.. exactly the kinda thing I wanted to do.. still trying to find a good screen though... are you seeing 100% of the screen there? Did you have to do any molding of the bezel?

[Mike Moffa]

Thanks to people who help me.. My carpc is running

 

you can find a very quick 5 step to install in a GT.. with couple of pictures..

 

http://www.montreal-subaru-club.com/images/mike/carpc/

 

 

 

http://www.montreal-subaru-club.com/images/mike/carpc/screen1.jpg

 

 

Free Enguinity Program, for OBD2.. just need the Tactrix cable, and will work without anything else.. more detail in the link (top of the topic)

 

 

 

http://www.montreal-subaru-club.com/images/mike/carpc/enginuity1.jpg

[metalac]

Man I'd love to see more details on how you fitted that Xenarc into the cubby area.

[f1anatic]

Man...if you go back to the beginning of this thread, I have all the detailed pix. His design and mine are very similar.

[Kelvrick]

Nice setup, but if you're anything like me, you'll recreat eit eventually (like bmac).

 

I'm going back after the holidays with a fresh bezel and pushing it in so the viewing angle isn't so bad for the passenger and backseaters.

[MaStaMooN]

Is that PC one of these http://minipc.aopen.com/Global/spec.htm

 

 

Thanks to people who help me.. My carpc is running

 

you can find a very quick 5 step to install in a GT.. with couple of pictures..

 

http://www.montreal-subaru-club.com/images/mike/carpc/

 

 

 

http://www.montreal-subaru-club.com/images/mike/carpc/screen1.jpg

 

 

Free Enguinity Program, for OBD2.. just need the Tactrix cable, and will work without anything else.. more detail in the link (top of the topic)

 

 

 

http://www.montreal-subaru-club.com/images/mike/carpc/enginuity1.jpg

[f1anatic]

Quick question - surely addressed before...so go ahead and kill the n00b.

 

I would like to start the DATA LOGGER in ENGINUITY directly - without going thru the main screen then clicking the Logger shortcut.

 

I have a car pc installed in my car and I love the "dashboard" one of the better ones out there - and there's no need for ELM scan and other tools. I can embed ENginuity in Centrafuse (my front end software) with no problems, but it would be awesome if my touchscreen shortcut tok me directly to the data logger. Any way of doing that ? Thanks.

[MaStaMooN]

Id guess you would have to find out if enginuity has command line options and have some sort of shortcut to run a command line set of instructions.

[f1anatic]

On NASIOC they said i can do this with the newest test version of Enginuity. Just run the logger.bat file.

 

But who can send it to me ?

[andrew.anderson]

In case any of you are interested.

 

$4.99

D-Link WUA-1340 IEEE 802.11b/g USB 2.0 Wireless G USB Adapter Up to 54Mbps Data Rates 64/128-Bit WEP, WPA

 

http://images10.newegg.com/NeweggImage/productimage/33-127-081-02.jpg