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Posted by Wild Card on Sat May 22nd at 8:56pm 2004

Some of you already know I did my mouse and monitor a month ago.. and I was thinking of keeping at it. lol. The monitor needs a few touch ups. But I also wanted to paint the inside of the case, since the outside is black, but the inside wasent painted. Same for the rear panel.

I also wanted to put in a little window to my hard drive. And change the case power LED light to a blue one (instead of green) and the HDD to a red one (instead of brown).

Just wondering what your thoughts were. Or what you have done to your computer.

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Posted by scary_jeff on Sat May 22nd at 10:43pm 2004

Swapping the power and hdd LEDs for blue might be good, but not if you use your PC to watch movies in bed, since the flashing blue will be more distracting. I don't see what the point of painting the inside of the case is though?

I've seen the HD window guide, but that seemed pointless as well - even if you have a case window, you still can't see the top of the hard drive... Also consider that you might break, and will void the warranty of your drive... doesn't seem worth it.



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Posted by Crono on Sat May 22nd at 11:44pm 2004

There really is no point in 'modding' your case, especially with the additions you want to make.

If you change the LEDs for your case are you going to change the LEDs in the CD and Floppy?

I think the most 'modding' I ever did was that I ensures all my external parts were black [addsig]



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Posted by Biological Component on Sun May 23rd at 12:11am 2004

You could start with some nitro-powered turbos. Then maybe you could put in some hydrolic suspensions, and chrome plate the whole case. Then you could have maybe, like, say, seven layers of purple-fading-to-creme-colored automotive paint, baked on there with a message saying "Low Rider" somewhere. Oh, and dont forget the fuzzy dice. [addsig]



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Posted by Myrk- on Sun May 23rd at 12:15am 2004

Just give it a glass side and spink up the inside, as for the monitor just shuv on some cool lights or something lol...

Btw Biological Component you know your avatar text has 2 errors in it...

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Posted by DesPlesda on Sun May 23rd at 12:17am 2004

Two words.

Speed stripes.



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Posted by Biological Component on Sun May 23rd at 12:25am 2004

? posted by Myrk-

Just give it a glass side and spink up the inside, as for the monitor just shuv on some cool lights or something lol...

Btw Biological Component you know your avatar text has 2 errors in it...

what errors?

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Posted by Myrk- on Sun May 23rd at 12:26am 2004

"01011000 01000101 01001110"

Now odd numbers of 0's or 1's in binary are errors, that cause computers to crash or slow down. You need even numbers in each set of 8.

God I know useless info lol

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Posted by Dark Tree on Sun May 23rd at 12:35am 2004

Sorry Myrk, you are quite wrong. "01011000 01000101 01001110" does convert correctly to letters. If you want to know what it says, here is a link to where you can convert binary to text (and back). http://www.sitinthecorner.com/binary/binary.php



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Posted by ReNo on Sun May 23rd at 12:40am 2004

WTF myrk [addsig]



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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Sun May 23rd at 12:41am 2004

? quote:
"01011000 01000101 01001110"

Now odd numbers of 0's or 1's in binary are errors, that cause computers to crash or slow down. You need even numbers in each set of 8.

God I know useless info lol


You're right, it is useless. Because it's completely false. [addsig]



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Posted by DesPlesda on Sun May 23rd at 1:01am 2004

Uh, Myrk, that's close, but incorrect. What you're describing is parity, which is an error correction system. There are two modes of parity - even, and odd. If the system is using even parity, the last bit in every byte will be set to 1, to maintain an even number of 1's in the byte if required. When using odd parity, the last bit is set to 1 in order to maintain an odd number of 1's, if required.

Examples:

First Seven Bytes:
Even parity, 0110101
Therefore parity bit = 0 (There's an even number of 1s already)

Even parity, 1010010
Therefore parity bit = 1 (There's an odd number of bytes, so we set the bit to 1 to make it even)

The receiving computer checks each byte and counts the 1s. If the data is corrupted, most likely the number of 1s will be changed, and the parity check will fail.



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Posted by ReNo on Sun May 23rd at 1:06am 2004

Des, how the hell is your name green when you aren't a mod of any forums? [addsig]



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Posted by DesPlesda on Sun May 23rd at 1:07am 2004

I'm a mod, Lep just doesn't want my ego to bloat from seeing my name in the mod list.



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Posted by Gwil on Sun May 23rd at 2:50pm 2004

Des?

He lurks with intent, and envisages secret world domination plans via the use of his minions At least that's what I'm lead to believe anyway

And please, please - computer modding is the fine art of glueing badges/sticking stickers to your case/monitor And a mascot on your monitor should do it

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Posted by Wild Card on Mon May 24th at 12:40am 2004

Hey how much room do you think there is between the drive spindle and the top cover? Cause Im wondering if (when I do the mod) the piece of plexi should go on top or underneath the top cover. [addsig]



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Posted by Wild Card on Mon May 24th at 1:36am 2004

Oh yea, for LED lights, how do I go abouts setting that up, I've looked from place to place but nothing seems good.

What I wanted to try was something of the sorts:

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Posted by fraggard on Mon May 24th at 5:09am 2004

Erm, you might want to watch the voltages/currents the molex connectors can handle. If you overload either the LEDs or the power supply, you might have a few burnt components later on. LEDs are usually connected in series with resistors to ensure the voltages are correct... Check the LEDs specs first before you go connecting them up.





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Posted by scary_jeff on Mon May 24th at 9:23am 2004

You need to find out the rated current for the LEDs, and the voltage drop for the LEDs (these will be on their datasheet). Then decide what rail you will power them from. To work out the resistor you need if you are putting them all in series, (I think) you want:

((voltage of chosen rail) - (voltage drop*number of LEDs in series)) / rated current for one LED.

If the numerator is negative, then you can't power the number of LEDs you chose in series with that supply rail.

But seriously, don't do a HDD window. Hard drives are air tight for a reason. You won't be able to see that the window is there, even if looking closely at the PC, because the HDD sits in a drive bay. It just isn't worth the risk at all of losing all your data...




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