I am oldskool.

[AlienALX]

Last night I decided to fit the sound deadening material onto the DVDROM drive. I had a look over it, and realised pretty quickly I could not deaden the top. If I did then it would not have gone back into the case. So, instead I removed the drive, then removed the face plate from the HDD bay I fitted and instead I completely covered the bottom of the DVD drive. I also deadened the sides of the CD bay.

And the other side obs, where the pieces were bigger because the mech to remove the drives is not there. And it did the trick ! all you can hear now is a gentle whoosh as the drive spins up with no rattling or buzzing. Awesome

The top and right side are now back in place.

So as soon as I feel better I will finish the two cover panels

 

[AlienALX]

Pushed on and finished the panels. Now I am a sweaty mess and need to go back to bed.

It's still not quite finished finished because the black panel will have a chrome decal on with the date it was completed. I still have a few jobs to do before that

I did treat myself to a separate chair for this rig because the arms on my chair do not drop (I broke them, now they are fixed in the up position and don't go down).

 

[AlienALX]

And so begins "Retro Corner". OK why did I buy the cheapest crappiest workstation money can buy? because it fitted the space I had (where my ex used to have her clock) and because if you lock the keyboard drawer in the out position they make fantastic "driving stands" for far less than the £200 they cost online. So I will likely have the KB and mouse up on the top top, and then the steering wheel on the KB drawer.

And the keyboard, now sporting the keys (ESC and WASD) that I found in my drawer.

And then last night I moved the monitor and speakers up to the desk. That was all it took to make me a sweaty wreck, god I hate this cold.

I bought this for cheaps just to hang a set of headphones from.

 

[AlienALX]

Getting there slowly but the keyboard won't play ball. It works at POST, works in bios but will not work in Windows. Correction, if I pull it out and plug it back in it works for a moment then something installs and it stops working again.

Mmm, yummy troubleshooting :S

 

[AverageNinja]

Looking good fella. Shame about the keyboard, but I'm sure you'll figure it out

Also, that phone on the left is really nice. Does it work?

 

[Cenedd]

The Corsair keyboards have a switch that is marked something like BIOS/1/2/4 I think it's either repeat rate or for compatibility. Worth checking if it had that. Failing that it could be a driver required for silly macros and stuff. How about a USB to PS/2 convertor? Windows would see it as a USB device then, just a standard PS/2 keyboard.

 

[AlienALX]

Looking good fella. Shame about the keyboard, but I'm sure you'll figure it out

Also, that phone on the left is really nice. Does it work?

It does mate yes. It's a bit plasticy when you touch it but yeah it does look nice

Gaz - It's not a Corsair mate. It's a knock off, cost me £19. All blues.. Any way yeah I have tried a USB-PS2. I think there's one in the pic near the back.. It didn't work.

I think this is a bios issue. I am not able to boot from IDE- Cflash devices either. I can install on them, but they will not boot. I've tried two now and my mate has both and they both work for him. Just looked and it's running an ancient bios, so that's the next port of call. If that fails then I am going to have to enable the net and let Windows Update do its thing. However, last time it made the machine crawl as I think a lot of those updates are for much newer rigs !

Going to try and flash the bios now....

 

[AlienALX]

OK so it was just being a tw@.

I put the old keyboard in that I have been using for weeks, did the same bloody thing. Worked for about ten seconds then died.

So, the only thing I can lay any blame on ATM is the Boomslang. Because I've been using the rig for weeks on a cheapo mouse and both keyboards and it worked fine.

So reinstalling, basically. Tried to do the Windows update, but of course I needed a working keyboard to put in my wifi password which was not possible.

Will see how this pans out. Thankfully I have got it down pat, but I will need to reinstall and sort out all of the bloody games *ranting emoji*

Couple of other things of note. Tried to flash the bios using Winflash, wouldn't even run. Tried doing it in DOS, says I need to update the bios OPROM or something. So that was unsuccessful too. Dragging my existing chair back and forth is a chore too, the cow rug catches it something rotten. Boy am I glad I bought that Steelcase chair !

The desk is also wobbly which is annoying the crap out of me. That will need reinforcing with some struts. I do like the layout though. Crammed all I could on there, including a spare headphone amp too so I am wired for sound (TM) Cliff Richard /gay.

 

[Redevil]

You can open on screen keybiord an when type the password with mouse.
Or use windows system restore. I hope that helps. Nice project.

 

[AlienALX]

Well I think I found the culprit. It was the Razer Boomslang. No wonder I got it cheap ! worked OK in Win 7 though. Any way, it seems to destroy the USB human interface structure so I had to reinstall Windows. Didn't take long though and now everything is pretty much running perfectly.

Midtown Madness is great fun

 

[Excalabur50]

Looks great mate well done

 

[AlienALX]

Thanks man. Been a lot of headaches, I forgot how fickle XP could be tbh. I need to do some cable management now with the wheel etc and can't wait for my perma chair to arrive. Then it will be a lot less aggro.

 

[sheroo]

I've enjoyed watching this come together, glad you're nearly there.