Dmitri's HTPC Project
Dmitri Lenna's log of his attempt to build a Home Theater PC or Media PC as it's sometimes called. He plans to describe all the steps he takes, both sucessful and not so successful, so that ohers may learn from his experiences.
Update | Wednesday, January 03, 2007 |
OK, I dropped the ball on this blog. The project was quasi-completed. It was assembled and did power up, but I immediately ran into two problems. One, the thing was way too loud. Two, there seemed to be some sort of power problem. I would press power and the fan would start and then power down. Multiple presses would make the fan run longer until it would finally start up. I replaced the power supply with with a Seasonic, a high quality PSU that is whisper quiet. The noise problem persisted, so I would need to take a closer look into it. The power problem didn't abate either. I poked around on some of the htpc forums and consensus was there was some sort of short, which is well beyond my ability to diagnose. I've consider taking it to a shop to be checked out but I'm just not interested in potentially dropping some serious quid with potentially no solution. I will re evaluate once my next big project is complete. See the other blog....
