CarPC Install

Install of CarPC with touchscreen LCD in Lexus ES300. The forums at mp3car.com have a lot of good info on Car Computers.

http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• carpc
• carputer
• install
• auto

[MrAllforpc]

I have a few questions.

First off, I have this same idea for my car, but I want to use a small 7" touchscreen monitor. I was wondering what exactly you did to hook ip the speakers to the computer, did you get a specific sound card? And regarding heat, do you think its fine for a computer to be in a car like that? Last thing, moving parts like the HDD, doesn't last too long in a car does it?

[highgrav]

@MrAllforpc

Good questions. I used to Stereo Jack to RCA adapter to connect it to the sound card. I then identified the stereo wires in the car and soldered them to the RCA plugs. Not the cleanest solution but it did work. I did get some engine noise feedback but I was able to minimize it with a ground loop isolator. Heat and moving parts were a concern but I didn't have much of a problem. It would get hot in the summer but everything performed okay. The atom processor didn't get too hot

[highgrav]

@MrAllforpc The moving parts of the harddrive did okay too. I did get some skipping when off-road but that might have been the backup mouse getting bounced around. You could get a SSD with no moving parts.  The cold seemed to be the biggest problem as it amplified the problems with the touchscreen backlight working. I have since removed this system from the car due to that prob. If I had to do it over again, I would get an off the shelf system or mount a tablet PC or iPad.

[KioskHacking]

What OS is running on it, Linux or Windows? If Windows, then what version?

[highgrav]

Windows XP

[RidingSausage]

@highgrav EWWW!! windows sucks

[highgrav]

@RidingSausage

Understandable. But much like Linux, this version came free.

[TheEnglishFamily]

messy

[cinajunior]

You see? that's why my syntax is horrible!

(I mean: of course you forgot to write something in the last sentence didn't you?) hahaha!

Just last question: how was the test?

I mean: what kind of questions did you answered?

Was it useful in your career?

[chemao1978]

@cinajunior RHCT was a piece of cake. I took the test without studying :) yes, I speak 5 languages, as also apparently do.

[cinajunior]

@chemao1978 1st: no, just laughing thinking about people using full sized keyboards in cars to do usual tasks...

2nd: clearly that's not so cool, if you didn't understand what i meant...

3rd: no, but I fluently speak Italian, Slovenian, Croatian and (very poor) German.

(really? a red hat certified technician that speaks 5 languages? and you have time to answer to my comments too?)

[chemao1978]

@cinajunior Also, if you were only 12 years old when Mandrake was out then I doubt you are old enough to even have a clue what you're talking about. I probably knew more about PCs by that time than you have learned collectively, to this day. I was already building servers running FBSD more than 10 years ago. By that time I had also mastered pretty much every console. At 16, myself and 3 others wrote the first EVER encrypted and polymorphic virus in TPASCAL. I already forgot more than you know.

[chemao1978]

@cinajunior Sorry but I am having a difficult time understanding what you're saying. Are you trying to say you doubt I know how to use gzip? Clearly English is not your primary language -- and that's cool... but the grammar here is practically incomprehensible. I also speak Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, and Vietnamese. If you're more fluent in any of those, please resubmit your comments in that language.

[cinajunior]

@chemao1978 by the way, i'm still on my mind: I'd love to see you trying to look cool by having compiz as window manager and pulling out the keyboard to run properly gzip... hahaha...

[cinajunior]

@chemao1978 why are you telling that to me? I know exactly what it seems like: when I was 12 the only linux based os a non-RHTC (or whatever you are) could install on his pc was mandrake. I was impressed that time, because my brother's friends (at highschool that time) kept telling me how difficult was redhat to install and how great was the whole kde and self-installer thing...