BMW pc related help:)

[propr'one]

what the hell are you talking bout foo? you'll cream yourself when you see the I.C.E. bitches

[Hound]

i just like the fact that now we can hack into propane's car and mess with him

[propr'one]

Sean download me iguidance. my network wont let me use torrents and MSFT is hard on a tiny screen

[Hound]

i'll see what i can do

[Ant118]

lol gotta love the rolfshipimp. Yeah let me know when your done. Looking at doing something in the Dually Computer wise, or even the Benz.

[propr'one]

Its pretty much done as for CPU setup, it just needs to get installed/shockproofed in the car


and then the whole CPU setup needs to get redone

[Hound]

downloading as we speak the program you asked for, i will give it to you on friday.

[propr'one]

You=theman

[everlast]

F*ckin' eh.. a 7' LCD!! WICKED!!

Seriously, post picks when ur done.

The only reason I haven't done a carputer is the boot time involved.. What would be wicked is some kind of remote sensing wire that hibernates the machine (perhaps using the power button?) when the car is off, and takes out of hibernation when you start up.

Any thoughts on this?

[propr'one]

I had that kind of setup going for a while, its not really hard to do, but there's a hardwired switch to be installed at the front of the car

(that is to say if my e36 doesn't get written off)

as for boot times, its a 2.4 ghz pc, it boots pretty fast

[Hound]

problem with hibernation is that it only suspends your pc. it does not turn it completely off. so either way you would come out eventually to a dead battery. now granted hibernation does not use that much power, but it's enough that over time it might cause issues. i've seen the setup so far, it looks very well done, screen is in a nice position and has been installed beautifully, looks like it came stock. hey Ivan when the car is fixed and you have the pc hooked up, i want to come over and take a look and tell you all that is wrong hahaha j/k man

[propr'one]

lol, IF the car is fixed

[thinair]

Originally Posted by Hound

problem with hibernation is that it only suspends your pc. it does not turn it completely off. so either way you would come out eventually to a dead battery. now granted hibernation does not use that much power, but it's enough that over time it might cause issues. i've seen the setup so far, it looks very well done, screen is in a nice position and has been installed beautifully, looks like it came stock. hey Ivan when the car is fixed and you have the pc hooked up, i want to come over and take a look and tell you all that is wrong hahaha j/k man

Correction, hibernation doesn't require any power at all, standby does. Hibernation writes everything in RAM to a file on the harddrive, cuts all power, then restores the data back to RAM on startup. That is why hibernation takes longer then standby. Standby keeps the RAM powered therefore retaining the memory and drawing a bit a power.

[notjoe]

how do you plan on shock proofing the drive? Especially with a lot of bass?

[everlast]

Originally Posted by thinair

Correction, hibernation doesn't require any power at all, standby does. Hibernation writes everything in RAM to a file on the harddrive, cuts all power, then restores the data back to RAM on startup. That is why hibernation takes longer then standby. Standby keeps the RAM powered therefore retaining the memory and drawing a bit a power.

Exactly. My 2Ghz machine takes 18 seconds from power button to end of hard drive thrashing from hibernation. About 4 of that is POST, 7 is a HD controller scanning for the drives and 3 is the antivirus thrashing on startup. I could get it to 11 seconds by removing the controller on going with on board, but thats still too slow IMO.