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mwong168:


--- Quote from: garnerb350 on January 15, 2010, 01:04:47 pm ---I have a second cab that i am going to mame (when it gets warmer) and I'm going to try the route that mwong168 was discussing.
(just to see if i can do it)
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It is not very hard if you have the right parts to mount all the computer hardware to a board.  Some people on here have been as creative as cutting up a Bic pen and use that as a riser to mount the motherboard or else you could buy these


http://suzohapp.com/gaming/accessories/49101900.htm



I used the copper risers (shown above) that come with all computer cases and drilled a hole slightly smaller and hand screwed them in for my showcase and bartop projects.  As for mounting and securing the power supply you could spend $5 and get a decent sized roll of multi use pipe strapping like this:



You can also this to secure hard drives, dvdroms as well.  Again if you are the type that wants the inside of your cabinet to look as nice as the outside you could always buy these HDD brackets which give you a cleaner way to mount onto the wood or inside of your cabinet.



Mounting your computer inside this way is much better in my opinion because a computer case can be big, bulky and the air flow for a computer case was not designed to be sitting inside another enclosure such as an arcade cabinet.  The air flow of the case might be excellent but unless you exhaust that air out your computer will overheat in the end.  The money spent on the case would be better spent on higher quality quiet fans to intake or exhaust air out of your actual cabinet instead.

Savannan:

wow, thanks everyone for the fast feed back!!!  I think Ive decided on mounting the mobo on that pull out shelf.   im sure I can goto ace hardware and pick up some kind of hollow plastic dowel that I can cut and use (dont wanna wait for a week and buy those feet.  im jones'n to get started..hahhaah).   I think i'll use windows 7 64bit. 

I have a couple more questions if you guys dont mind.....

I have the D9800 wg monitor....
1) do i *NEED* arcadevga2?

2) when I connected my asus gaming laptop to that monitor...i set up 800x600 on the laptop, turned off everything, connected cables and turn everything on.  it says NO SIGNAL IN.  any ideas?

3) and how do you UPLOAD a picture here    "[ img]   what goes here ?????? [ /img]"  location of my file??? or web pic addy? 

thanks all again for your feedback, I appriciate it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sav



mwong168:


--- Quote from: Savannan on January 15, 2010, 01:48:06 pm ---wow, thanks everyone for the fast feed back!!!  I think Ive decided on mounting the mobo on that pull out shelf.   im sure I can goto ace hardware and pick up some kind of hollow plastic dowel that I can cut and use (dont wanna wait for a week and buy those feet.  im jones'n to get started..hahhaah).   I think i'll use windows 7 64bit. 

I have a couple more questions if you guys dont mind.....

I have the D9800 wg monitor....
1) do i *NEED* arcadevga2?

2) when I connected my asus gaming laptop to that monitor...i set up 800x600 on the laptop, turned off everything, connected cables and turn everything on.  it says NO SIGNAL IN.  any ideas?

3) and how do you UPLOAD a picture here    "[ img]   what goes here ?????? [ /img]"  location of my file??? or web pic addy? 
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Good idea on mounting it on the pull out tray ;D  I think you should stick with 32bit because most emulators are developed around 32bit operating systems if I recall and unless you are pushing over 3gb of ram that is the only other reason to go 64bit.

To upload or post a picture in between your [ img ] [ /img] tag you put the url location of your image such as www.abc.com/xyz.jpg.  Also don't forget to remove the spaces in between your square brackets.

drventure:

About uploading images, there's a thread here for that very thing

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=90051.0

Basically, just post a message with just giberish in it, then attach your pictures. once they're uploading go back to that message, right click on the link to the image and copy the link location, the paste that into whatever other post you're writing.

A bit of a pain but it works!

saurian333:

That thread was a good idea.  Kind of fun to jump to random pages on that and see what you come up with. :lol

I upload my images to ImageBam.  Free, no limit (except the 3MB limit per file), and usually pretty fast.  I like the fact that you can compress your pics to a .zip file and upload it; it will extract them and create a gallery automagically.  As a little bonus, when you upload a group of pics to a gallery, it will generate BBcode for you that you can just copy and paste into your post.  8)  BBcode's not complicated, but it's handy if you're posting a bunch of pics at once.

Another option is to just attach them to your post, but you have a limit of 8 files/2MB that way, and you can't move them around within the post.

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