If I had more time and resources I would have outsourced the plexiglass cutting to a laser cutter instead of cutting it with a Dremel. The edges were not smooth at all so I had to sand it down a bit and I'm still not entirely pleased with the outcome. The power supply I'm using is the 120 Watt PicoPSU. The only circuitry is a little block on top of the ATX connector that receives 12 VDC from a small power brick (like a laptop). There are two problems with this power supply. First off, it makes a very tight fit with the ethernet jack. So much so that I ended up cutting out a part of the metal box around the ethernet jack and re-insulating it with a piece of rubber electrical tape. Hopefully, having the PicoPSU's VRM so close to the ethernet jack won't bring up any EMI issues. Fortunately for this, as you'll read later on, I don't end up using the onboard ethernet. The second problem with the PicoPSU is that it does not come with a P4 power connector. A P4 connector is a small square block connector that provides a solid 12V rail to the processor. Without this, the motherboard will not POST. I had to solder one up from spare parts, although cheap molex to P4 adapters do exist. However, if you opt to go the route of the adapter, you will lose one molex connector and be stuck with a single SATA power jack and a floppy power connector.Īlways have a window open and fan on when soldering and using a blow-torch. Since I have 2 hard drives in this computer and wanted a spare molex connector around for whatever reason, I soldered on a few extra molex connectors. It can be decoded just like the monoliths. Upon activating every Monolith a series of glyphs will appear on the wall. The room is lined with books and has a single table and chair in the center, facing a large blank wall. While I was at it I also unsoldered the parallel IEEE 1284 and serial ports as I can't remember the last time I've used them, and it can only help the air flow in the case. Mountains (North Zone) The Library is a secret room located right before the Drifter battles the Hierophant. While I'm on the subject of soldering, if you do any soldering on a motherboard you will want to get a more powerful soldering iron. Solder used on motherboards has a considerably higher melting point and was hard to work with using a 25 Watt iron. I found myself heating the tip of the soldering iron with a blow torch many times. In the last part of this series I mentioned my troubles with setting up the video driver in Linux. At this point I am still not capable of producing the full 1920x1200 resolution my monitor supports.
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