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Title: Just finished my Wallmount Juke
Post by: logik on November 06, 2008, 08:52:44 pm: I had progress pics, but my compact flash card took a dump on me. :banghead:

Its based off of the mameroom juke plans. Guts consist of a dell gx260 board and power supply, seagate 2.5" hard drive, DVD/CD, linksys wireless, RCA Lyra wireless sound back to my home theater, 6" lumin disc, 15" ELO touchscreen. Painted black with spraypaint, sanding between each coat to get a smooth flat finish, then cleared. Was a fun project. I'm not the most skilled like most on here, but I am very happy with it and everyone loves it. Have a bit more tweaking to do with the nordbeat software to get all my prefrences the way I like, but that should be done by this weekend.
Title: Re: Just finished my Wallmount Juke
Post by: logik on November 06, 2008, 08:53:29 pm: Some more pics....
Title: Re: Just finished my Wallmount Juke
Post by: logik on November 06, 2008, 08:55:41 pm: One more.... the guts
Title: Re: Just finished my Wallmount Juke
Post by: DaOld Man on November 06, 2008, 09:03:56 pm: Good job!

Does that monitor have both USB and serial connections?
Title: Re: Just finished my Wallmount Juke
Post by: logik on November 07, 2008, 07:37:09 am: No, just serial. Got it off Ebay and assumed it was USB, but I was wrong. Luckily I had a board with 1 serial port on it.
Title: Re: Just finished my Wallmount Juke
Post by: DaOld Man on November 07, 2008, 08:50:01 am: Ok, I didnt know, it looks like in that picture that it has a black cable and a serial white cable on it.
Whats the black cable? It kinda looks like a usb.
Title: Re: Just finished my Wallmount Juke
Post by: logik on November 07, 2008, 09:48:19 am: The black cable out of the monitor goes to a controller for the monitor. It's used for adjusting screen position, color, etc. If you look at the pic, the controller is the light gray rectangular thing stuck to the back of the monitor on the left hand side.
Title: Re: Just finished my Wallmount Juke
Post by: hsr on November 07, 2008, 12:14:26 pm: Sorry if this is a dumb question. What do most folks do about a keyboard in a jukebox? My project computers all want a keyboard or they won't fully boot.

Are you just using a decased keyboard?
Title: Re: Just finished my Wallmount Juke
Post by: DaOld Man on November 07, 2008, 12:36:18 pm: Check BIOS and see if there is a section called something like "Halt on errors"
Make sure it is set to ignore all errors, including keyboard.
Title: Re: Just finished my Wallmount Juke
Post by: logik on November 07, 2008, 01:35:29 pm: Do exactly what DaOldMan said.
Title: Re: Just finished my Wallmount Juke
Post by: Barry Barcrest on November 10, 2008, 07:42:38 am: Some BIOS's can also be set to turn the computer on as soon as mains is applied. I did this with mine so i didn't need to add a power button to turn the juke on, it also means it comes straight on if there is a power outage for any reason.
Title: Re: Just finished my Wallmount Juke
Post by: shardian on November 13, 2008, 09:58:05 am: Could you take some brighter pics of the front? I can't see any detail. Mainly want to see what it looks like sans buttons on the panel.
Title: Re: Just finished my Wallmount Juke
Post by: logik on November 14, 2008, 09:44:23 am: I will try and take another pic this weekend.
Title: Re: Just finished my Wallmount Juke
Post by: shardian on November 17, 2008, 10:39:43 am: Bump for pics. ;D
Title: Re: Just finished my Wallmount Juke
Post by: logik on November 19, 2008, 06:41:34 pm: Sorry for the dealy Shardian, here is a better pic of the front. No buttons or anything special. The only button is a button on the bottom to turn it all on or off.