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Morning Dawn

[Dawnchaser 🌄 8,098]

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[Telferi 6,909]

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Hi Telf

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Hey Dawn!

How are you? 

[Dawnchaser 🌄 8,098]

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Good thanks, you?

[lomk 20,666]

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I DID SO MUCH STUFF THIS WEEKEND. 

Basically just cleaned my whole house. Except the garage. Gonna try to do that tonight if there is enough sunlight when I get home. I also wanna rotate my tires. But we'll see on that. 

How is everybody else today?

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55 minutes ago, rdluvrd00d44 said:

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 I also wanna rotate my tires. But we'll see on that. 

Don't they do that when you drive along

 

Good thanks, a pleasent Milan and back this am. Daughter had most of the night in her new non-cot bed, managed 8hrs after eventually getting settled and up at 6am ...and she's free to come and go as it's a bed :|

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[lomk 20,666]

24 minutes ago, Dawnchaser said:

Don't they do that when you drive along

 

Good thanks, a pleasent Milan and back this am. Daughter had most of the night in her new non-cot bed, managed 8hrs after eventually getting settled and up at 6am ...and she's free to come and go as it's a bed :|

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The kiddo slept on the plane? Glad to hear you had a good flight. Bet you never get tired of seeing the world from all the way up there. Don't think I could, anyway. 

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It's only bad looking down on the earth if you're on fire or you've lost your wings

[lomk 20,666]

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Okay, that made me snort a bit.

[Kawaii Besu 28,030]

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Or maybe.

*war flashbacks of Raritas spam*

So, I've reassembled my old PC in an old af LG prebuild case. Thing didn't even come with 3.5" mounts, so I had to go full ghetto Linus mod to the 5.25" bays. Widened the screw slots, and then screwed my hard drive into it.

But it has a proprietary front panel connector. Not the usual individual connections, but it was a block style connector like USB 2.0 and HD Audio. Kinda lined up with the connectors on my mobo, so I gave it a shot, and then, well, only a blue light appears on the power button. Can't turn it on or anything. :V

Guess I'll have to go ghetto again with the front panel shit.

Thing even has a card reader built into it, but, well, it had proprietary connector BS as well,. And even then, it would still not be something since the front panel USB ports have individual connectors instead of one, and my mobo only has two. Guess that's what you get for buying a cheap af prebuild case from the Core 2 Duo days.

Edited December 4, 2017 by Fillypino Fries

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10 minutes ago, Fillypino Fries said:

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Or maybe.

 

TIFTFY

Mmm, modding

*Gets Dremel*

 

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@Fillypino Fries Was the LG case all you had? Does it have a model number or even what OS came pre installed? 

I'll bet a set of wire strippers would be nice to have for the front IO for rigging something up. I can only assume you didn't have enough left in your budget for a case.

I kinda had to go Linus mode on my case as my 290 is about an inch too long for the gfx card bay. Instead of getting a bigger case, I went with Plan B (that's Plan Bend-The-Hell-Out-Of-The-5.25-Inch-Bay-Cages) to make my case accommodate it.

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Well, it was a really cheap af case from a scrap PC parts store. We're gonna sell the PC soon, and, well, my dad wants the case to be white, since the monitor it is going to be sold with is white, and, well to him, matching colors = more $$$ or some shit.

We could easily look around and find several brand new cases with standard connections in white, but, well, we were kinda pressed for time, so we just got the LG case and rolled the dice with the front panel connections.

And, oh yea, it's an LG Xpion from the Core 2 and Windows Vista days. Pretty interesting to see a Windows Vista sticker again after all them fiascos and stuff.

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Shuttle case w/ Socket939 FX60 and 6800GT, self made side grill (looks a bit neater than the extra fan on the back)

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Haha that's great! Well I hope you can make something work with the connectors.

I love having beefy computers in old cases. Its like a 1999 Corolla doing an 10 second quarter. Something fun and funny about it. 

I think it was this one where he integrated an SD card reader into the floppy drive. 

I'll say one thing they did right with pre build PCs is giving you panels to hide all your front IO. 

Who misses this crap?

Because I don't.

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I am about to start playing football with my work computer. Piece of shit. 

[Kawaii Besu 28,030]

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That floppy SD card reader's bloody brilliant.

Makes me wanna cut 5.25" and 3.5" bays in the front of my Phanteks P400.

Guess that's one thing I kinda miss in the whole silent PC revolution. Turning on your PC and then hearing the fans blare out as it POSTs. My new build just gets pwned by a nearby stand fan in terms of noise, even if you've just turned it on.

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Yeah, I can remember being a kid and the computer at home was as loud as a vacuum cleaner.

You know what I am glad to not have to have gone through? Driver discs. Like, I can imagine how frustrating it had to have been in the Win 95 era where if you wanted to get online, just having a modem wasn't enough. I do remember having to go through wizards on a few things. But I think I barely missed out on manually installing drivers. Now everything is plug and play and that's actually an amazing technology that nobody really pays attention to. 

I do remember sometimes needing to pick up the hook to get online. I didn't escape dial up.

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8 disks to an operating system

Edited December 4, 2017 by Dawnchaser

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