Altered Beast!!!

[shardian]

no i didn't get the artwork 

any chance of sending it again?

thanks a lot for your help, now my actual tech teacher is letting us embark on our 'major project' so can now get going i hope !

davidlittle_15@hotmail.co.uk

Posting your email as a clickable link in an online forum is never a good idea. BTW, that was the first post of yours that I have understood every word. Congrats on that!

[david656]

righty, had a bit of a slagging off match with my tec teacher as he i am not alowed to build it so i will have to find another way of doin it.

ok
i got a nice new MoBo E139761 AA 681533-312 DELL REV. A02               BUT it dun't work !

any idea's when the atx to MoBo power is half connected hanging in a way it actually powers !!! but obviously dangerous and not working properly.

any idea's the PSU to MoBo has pin 18 missing and the MoBo has pin 19 missing !!!! wierd

really need your help on this one

btw its a Pentium II with MMX technology

[david656]

a little help anyone :DDDDD

i need to get this MoBo going it works sort off read last post

[shardian]

If all you are working with is a pentium 2, here is the best way to fix it:

1) take sledgehammer to existing mobo
2) After feeling better, throw pieces in garbage
3) Go to nearest resell shop and buy ENTIRE pentium 2 pc for next to nothing
4) come home
5) install your software and be done

[david656]

:-O


noooooooooooooooooooo never

its a nice looking board pentium 2 with

2x ISA slots
3x PCI slots
1x AGP slot
and wait for it..........................  no pins to conect a on button !

any one have a nice enviromently friendly way of fixing this

[shardian]

any one have a nice enviromently friendly way of fixing this

No problem:
Insert the following addendum steps after sledgehammering as follows:
1a) Use soldering iron, pliers, and other specialty tools to reduce entire board to its elemental components.
1b) take separated piles to recycling plant.

[SavannahLion]

i got a nice new MoBo E139761 AA 681533-312 DELL REV. A02               BUT it dun't work !

<SNIP>

any idea's the PSU to MoBo has pin 18 missing and the MoBo has pin 19 missing !!!! wierd

and wait for it..........................  no pins to conect a on button !

The problem is it's a DELL.

For some years (not sure if yours falls in this range) DELL used a proprietary power supply that was not compatible with standard PSU's. In fact, plugging in a standard ATX power supply resulted in a dead motherboard, period. As far as I know, DELL motherboards are usually still are not compatible with ATX supplies, but the incompatibility is not as risky or dangerous. It is a nightmare working with these boards.

You see no pins for a power button for the exact same reason. DELL typically uses a proprietary daughter board that houses lights, power and reset with a funky cable. It is not compatible with standard ATX case wiring. You might find the daughter card on eBay.

I'm all for the preservation of hardware, but DELL's fall into a rare class of hardware I would rather see destroyed than preserved. The level of proprietary hardware manufactures like DELL, Compaq, and others employ often border on insane and maddening. If you come across their parts, scavange what you can, destroy the rest, then buy a complete PC on the cheap. Or better yet, put one together using standard components.

[david656]

humm
 i detest DELL but i got this board at a carboot and wait for it a £1 people a £1 had to get it !!

i might check ebay see if they have something of a similar spec

[DaOld Man]

Check out this site. Sometimes they have real good deals on re-furbished PC's.
http://directron.com/systems.html
I agree with the other posts, SC the dell...

[david656]

WoW

my school was having a clear out and i got boxes of stuff for FREE !!!!

6 Floppy drives
3 CD-ROM drives
LOADS of ISA and PCI cards, some SERIAL and PARRALEL, as well as some 16bit SOUND BLASTERS !!!!!
got 2 AGP VIDEO cards
a Mini-ATX board that i think works im not sure yet got to test it
2 PC's, one worked after a few scans and runns PERFECT Windows 98, the other a nice small one but DEAD, teh PSU is a AT without the switch, soo anyone know where i can get a replacement for that
a bag of IDE cables
a few ATX PSU's and a few small PSU's that i think fits ITX cases (not sure)
oh and a AMAZING RM NB200 LAPTOP from teh 80's ! although have been fiddling and it powers up and gets to disk boot faliure so just a matter of sorting out the HDD !!!!

not bad for free !!!!

SO

any idea's on teh AT PSU problem, btw when you connect a AT PSU with switch and force power into it the lights do come on !!! so either its a dodgy PSU OR teh switch could be playing up, help needed !

any idea's???

[david656]

ok this post is back from the dead !

i have been playing with mame and arcade os and have a HDD with MAME and arcade os working fine on it with about 4 games.

i have been to maplins bought some switches and bits amd bobs.

i have started my tech GCSE work on it all, i am creating 2 folders of work

'Product Study' and 'Making the Product'

i have started to write up stuff and its starting to look good i will post some of it shortly as i want to make a GREAT arcade machine and get a GREAT mark !!

[david656]

thres the first bit i have done, not brilliant but a start i guess

[Disturbed013]

Best of luck with your project David!

After reading your plans, I have some suggestions.  You stated:

"One thing I will have to incorporate into my design will be a little control strip on the front of the cabinet that holds, Light switch, PC power button, PC reset button, Volume switch. I will do this because I want to emulate a real arcade machine as much as possible..."

A real arcade machine doesn't have a control strip on the front, and yours does not have to either.  Search through these forums for the Bits Ltd. strip, or "one button solution".  The Bits Ltd. strip is made in UK I believe, so you should have no trouble finding that.  You'll also find plans to add a relay to a power strip and effectively end up with the same thing.  One switch powers up everything in your cab-PC, Lights, Speakers, and Monitor.  Mount your switch on the top or back of the cab where it belongs, and follow the other suggestions you'll find in here to auto load your front end and hide windows, and you will be very very close to a "real arcade" machine.

The second suggestion I have is for you to pick up a copy of Saints book to assist you in your research.  You mentioned using the internet and picking peoples brains, but having the book will round out your research, provide you loads of information on the hows & whys + some history, and will give you another source to add to your bibliography.

Again, good luck, and keep studying here too.

D13

[david656]

thanks a lot Disturbed013

thanks for taking time out to have a little read that means a lot to me.

saints book?? is taht a book you buy and where from?

yeh that book will really help becuase the internet is very clicky when you as for something and it gives you something else, at least with a dedicated book you know you will get pure useful facts.

i might pop down the libary and get out some games history books and even arcade history if they do them

thanks again

[xmenxmen]

saints book?? is taht a book you buy and where from?

http://www.amazon.com/Project-Arcade-Build-Your-Machine/dp/0764556169