Hey Shaunk, good luck man .. I got a fully built carpc from mo-co-so.. I was thinking of ordering parts from ebay but after calculating the price and effort, I found that buying a complete unit is much cheaper. If you're not going to play HD movies, I believe your setup is good .. what kind of case do you use?

Anyway, I ripped apart few things from my dashboard today.. the carpc has been configured, running centrafuse .. was scratching my head last night trying to get HD audio to work but stupid Microsoft XP SP3, it wouldn't .. after spent few hours, found the way around it.. arghh.. went to sleep at 1AM and was really sleepy this morning.



2 DIN compartment, before, I've the RV meter here .. ripped off the radio too and fabricated my own AUX cable for Kenwood HU.

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Added on May 20, 2010, 4:31 pmBTW, on the power supply, that is bad .. do you got the one from mini-box or is it the China copy one? There are quite a number of sellers selling the China copies on ebay.. so, be aware of that. BTW, when connecting it to the car, please remember to ground the GND to your chasis and not direct to the GND of the battery.

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Added on May 20, 2010, 10:35 pmDone with the cabling .. ripped the centre part to route the cables and to add the AUX cable to HU.. wow.. didn't realised it took hours .. tomorrow will see, if I've enough time, I might have the display and the cpu installed.

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Added on May 21, 2010, 10:27 amLatest update, display is fixed now..



This post has been edited by wiraone: May 21 2010, 03:45 PM

Ok, here is my installed setup:

1. Preparing for display ..



2. Display installed ..



3. CPU unit installed ..



5. Garmin PC under centrafuse ..



Missing are the photos of my messy installation .. didn't take any photos while lying the cables etc..

Hi Shaunk,

When you got your ADS Tech Instant FM, please do share how the quality like when you put it in the car. From Centrafuse forum, many are moaning about the low quality after moving their setup into their car .. probably, due to body of the car are made of steel, the signal penetrating to the unit is much much less compared to their home environment. For now, I'm not throwing my HU.. so, don't really need the USB radio but still thinking of getting one .. my HU doesn't have RDS ..

This post has been edited by wiraone: May 24 2010, 09:06 AM

That is true on the local components .. ZOTAC has worldwide coverage but I've no idea if there is any local distributor here and will they willing to send the mobo for repair if there anything wrong with it.

You're lucky, only the cap went kaput .. otherwise, RMA to US etc will surely cost time & money. This is where we need to pro-active when DIY-ing, need to fix the thing ourself if there is a problem.

On the shipment, it took almost a week on Express Mail, well, it reached the customs on Saturday but Pos only informed me that it is stuck on Tuesday and I did my clearance on Wednesday. The problem when we're not using this Express Mail, we don't have the tracking number and we don't know where about the package is. My OBD from HK seller hasn't reach me and it has been I think two weeks now.

Nice to have those LEDs reachable and can display the activities too, but on mine, I've a one and half year old son and surely it is no fun when the pc keeps rebooting One left to do is to have USB ports and AUX/MIC somewhere that easily accessible. I've ripped the front ports board from my old casing and might put it somewhere at the centre console. I'm just lucky that I've done the power cabling stuff before, now the +12V is coming from the battery and shared between the PC & the amateur radio that I've installed quite a while back.

Centrafuse is the front end application ... just like when you've media pc, the windows media is the front end for it. Cost US$65 if you get it from mo-co-so but a bit more if you get it directly from centrafuse.com.

If you meant the ebay guy? yes, but exchange rate probably has gone up now ..

http://cgi.ebay.com.my/Lilliput-7-Touch-Sc...9#ht_5464wt_941

It was around RM542 before, looking at it now, it has gone up a bit to RM551, but the US price is still the same at US$166. Hey, I thought our money is going up and not theirs .. owell ..

Wa, nice setup there. Do you replace your HU totally? Have you receive your ads tech radio? Anyway, me still waiting for the obd2 interface & it has been two weeks already.

We seem to have two threads running on the same subject, I've no idea if this can be merged ..

http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/407151

Why? Put back all the original stuff .. and I'm 100% sure those who've carpc already fitted will rip it off their cars when they want to sell the car.

SSD is affordable now, go for it. BTW, this thread is dead, if you want to get better response, check the other thread in ICE section.