The X15e HTPC-case with TFT touch(!)screen...
Like every good system... it starts off in my bathroom :-)
I really don't get this, I compared a lot of higher-tech motherboards (like the P5GD2-deluxe in there now) but none of them have a hole for this spacer...
...so we get rid of it! :-)
Well, somehow this plate for the audio/USB/1394-frontplate didn't look too straight...
...so we fix that also!
Here you can see there really is no hole in the motherboard, corresponding to this spacer...
...and the fixed front. On the left side you can see a little bit of what I did, but believe me, this was much more visible before. These little points were so big, the USB-cardreader wouldn't fit at first...
Well... get this. I had to make this cable to get the infrared-receiver-module stable.
They mention in their manual that it needs a stable 5V, but they refused to make a dedicated 5Volt-line to it and depended on the 5Volt supplied by the onboard USB-headers of the motherboard. In my case with this rather splendid Asus P5GD2 Deluxe, there was no USB-header supplying enough voltage and so I made this cable to do so.
...but the part I really don't get is, that there is room for a 5Volt-line on the Molex-connector already used for the TFT-screen. So why bother to write stuff about it in your manual instead of just making/supplying this cable?
Time to show it off!
...and to be honest, it is a nice screen!
I'm not feeling sorry to let it go, what use would a touchscreen be in my setup, when I have to kneel down first... :-) Next to that, this case isn't mine...
Tschuss!
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