Earthquake Updates
I added another stick of 512MB PC2400 RAM. Just for kicks and so I can add a few more tracks on my Cakewalk recording software. I ended up ditching the DigiDoc 5 and the PCMods baybus since the case would…
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Computers and Mods
Earthquake’s New Wood Case
Background: Earthquake is my primary machine, and I just can’t keep my hands off of it. Lately, I’ve had a bug to build it a new case, to replace the rather poorly modded HX08 that currently hosts it. So after…
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Earthquake’s Old Case
This is a little blurb about Earthquake‘s previous case mods. I’ve since given it a total makeover. Details about this case and the water cooling project it contains can be found here. – Intake hole in bezel with wire mesh…
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Locust gets a woody
Background: Locust is my Frankenstein’s monster, an amalgamation of spare parts collected over the years to make a fourth computer that I could tear down and reformat to suit whatever I wanted to test at the moment, without losing any…
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Earthquake notes to self
I wanted to make sure to document what temp probe monitored what in Earthquake so here’s a short list, mostly for my own use: 1. Water temp from radiator 2. Processor temp 3. Ambient room temp 4. Top HD (HD…
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More Headcrash modding
I modded the Headcrash case to have four green LEDs on one of the 5-1/4″ bay covers indicating activity on each of the four hard drives. It’s an easy mod that involves cutting holes in the bay cover and connecting…
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Diamond Viper v330 R.I.P.
I finally got around to rebuilding Locust, and in the process fried my v330 vid card (hence the crappy 2mb PCI graphics card in the specs). I was switching the blow direction of a fan while the machine was on…
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Plague changes
I got antsy and decided to make Plague all EIDE and make Locust an all SCSI machine. My reasoning behind this is that the P3V4X has an ATA-100 interface and the mobo in Locust, the P5A, only has an interface…
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Water cooling an Earthquake
In the Beginning: Last Fall I decided to build myself a new workstation and spent some time looking around for parts to build myself a cool-looking and awesome-performing machine. After poking around in various hardware and tech sites, I decided…
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Headcrash wiped
I wiped Headcrash for the umpteenth time last night to install and configure a new drive subsystem. I broke down and bought a SCSI RAID 2100s drive controller from Adaptec on ebay the other day and four 7200rpm Ultra 160…
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