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Trapezia UM400 Restoration - Unique Triple Screen Gaming / Racing / Flight Sim
- Thread starter Craterloads
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That looks BAD ASS!
Can we get some pics of the new internals?
No new internals just yet, working with the olds ones
Just trying to get system up and running 100% functionally first, as would rather have to mess with it open it up again etc at this stage.
This is awesome, such a cool looking machine.
Is it the one on eBay that went for £62 ? If so then that's a crazy crazy bargain
Yep that's the one. I don't know, was a broken piece of P4 based junk in someones garage full of spiders!
Talking about spiders, don't know if it was the weather or something but I seen at least 4 yesterday and fought an absolute beast of a spider that was chilling on the banister blocking my way to the kitchen.
Just trying to get touch screen working, have had the LCD part working from a few days ago but the touch screen digitizer is a separate part connected independently.
It's a real arse getting stuff functioning as everything is geared towards windows 2000 / XP, and with me installing W7 having to run all drivers in compatibility mode. Running ATI Rage and Nvidia MX drivers designed for XP in compatibility mode in W7, all mobo drivers in compatibilty mode etc its a bit of a chore.
That and the wiring is frankensteinish at the moment, have got the 4Pin CPU power spliced off 2 molex connectors, had to cut down a 24pin motherboard connector to fit the 20pin on the board and have 6 custom connectors forced into the PSU that weren't designed to go there. Be glad to see this old hardware out.
Anyhow regarding touch screen, had to take the bottom half apart again and then take apart the touch screen and trace back the ribbon cable from the digitizer to the PCB to find the controller, allowing me to find a driver for the thing.
Digitouch DTR-01S http://www.digitechsys.co.kr/product...view.php?idx=7
Resistive touch screen, serial port communication. Luckily there was a driver for it for Windows 7 and installation was simple enough and all up and running. Works really well, can launch programs from touchscreen with one press and open up in the screens above. Could be useful when gaming on the triple screen to launch programs, browse web etc.
Does need calibrating a little though as feels about 5mm out so trying to find a calibration tool. I know they have one, seen it yesterday, but cant seem to find it now.
After this still got quite a but of work to do before we can start talking new hardware
1) need to sort out audio as no sound as of now. Might just be wiring to amplifier or drivers for motherboard. It looks like it goes from the motherboard output jack, the green one, it connects to the amplifier via a cable and from the amp the speakers are connected.
2)USB 3.0 stuff needs doing yet
3) Got to mod all the 6 individual power connectors into a single connector like a 20/24pin atx connector. As will cut down on the amount of cables.
4) Touch screen is connected via serial port, thinking of modding it in to a internal USB cable. I know it can work via USB as the datasheet on there website list a USB / Serial port version. So before I chop it up going to but a serial to USB adapter and see if it works like that, if it does then I know for sure will be fine once modded. Again just trying to cut down on the amount of cables.
It's a real arse getting stuff functioning as everything is geared towards windows 2000 / XP, and with me installing W7 having to run all drivers in compatibility mode. Running ATI Rage and Nvidia MX drivers designed for XP in compatibility mode in W7, all mobo drivers in compatibilty mode etc its a bit of a chore.
That and the wiring is frankensteinish at the moment, have got the 4Pin CPU power spliced off 2 molex connectors, had to cut down a 24pin motherboard connector to fit the 20pin on the board and have 6 custom connectors forced into the PSU that weren't designed to go there. Be glad to see this old hardware out.
Anyhow regarding touch screen, had to take the bottom half apart again and then take apart the touch screen and trace back the ribbon cable from the digitizer to the PCB to find the controller, allowing me to find a driver for the thing.
Digitouch DTR-01S http://www.digitechsys.co.kr/product...view.php?idx=7
Resistive touch screen, serial port communication. Luckily there was a driver for it for Windows 7 and installation was simple enough and all up and running. Works really well, can launch programs from touchscreen with one press and open up in the screens above. Could be useful when gaming on the triple screen to launch programs, browse web etc.
Does need calibrating a little though as feels about 5mm out so trying to find a calibration tool. I know they have one, seen it yesterday, but cant seem to find it now.
After this still got quite a but of work to do before we can start talking new hardware
1) need to sort out audio as no sound as of now. Might just be wiring to amplifier or drivers for motherboard. It looks like it goes from the motherboard output jack, the green one, it connects to the amplifier via a cable and from the amp the speakers are connected.
2)USB 3.0 stuff needs doing yet
3) Got to mod all the 6 individual power connectors into a single connector like a 20/24pin atx connector. As will cut down on the amount of cables.
4) Touch screen is connected via serial port, thinking of modding it in to a internal USB cable. I know it can work via USB as the datasheet on there website list a USB / Serial port version. So before I chop it up going to but a serial to USB adapter and see if it works like that, if it does then I know for sure will be fine once modded. Again just trying to cut down on the amount of cables.
Think its the Digitouch tool you need on this page
http://english.digitechsys.co.kr/customer/down_driver.php
http://english.digitechsys.co.kr/customer/down_driver.php