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**prosser13** · 03-19-07

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Originally Posted by gobygoby

ya, but when I was messing with the psone screen, I had not yet even downloaded powestrip.....

Mine seems to need the settings to be changed?

**prosser13** · 03-19-07

Do you ever get the feeling you should go sit in the corner with the light off and shout at yourself for half an hour?

Well, I decided to check my connections seeing as yours worked first time. So I replugged it in again, and checked it was pushed into the graphics card properly.

And its working fine

Gobygoby, your an inspiration without telling me what to do

Just to say - the 1cm gap is caused by the resolution. I've dropped mine down to 320x240 or so and its taking up the whole screen, AND the mouse isn't tiny any more.

I wish I could rep you enough

Nostrano · 03-19-07

Dude you have issues lol

lol although i did say something different on msn to you please shhhhhhhh- i dont want people to think im wierd

noxious89123 · 03-19-07

Huzzah for Goby! May he forever provide us awesome reading material

And do you seriously think anyone would listen to that nitwit over you?? Nevar! Your name hasn't been tarnished

gobygoby · 03-19-07

Quote:

Originally Posted by prosser13

Do you ever get the feeling you should go sit in the corner with the light off and shout at yourself for half an hour?

Well, I decided to check my connections seeing as yours worked first time. So I replugged it in again, and checked it was pushed into the graphics card properly.

And its working fine

Gobygoby, your an inspiration without telling me what to do

Just to say - the 1cm gap is caused by the resolution. I've dropped mine down to 320x240 or so and its taking up the whole screen, AND the mouse isn't tiny any more.

I wish I could rep you enough

Hey no problem! All it does it a small idea to spark something larger. and thats the purpose of this thread. to spread my ideas, and I also draw ideas from you guys when you make comments.

glad it worked for you! Do you think messing with the vga mod is worth it over the picture of the s-video? I mean do you think picture quality would be with the time investing into it?

Quote:

Originally Posted by noxious89123

Huzzah for Goby! May he forever provide us awesome reading material

And do you seriously think anyone would listen to that nitwit over you?? Nevar! Your name hasn't been tarnished

thanks! <rubbing my name and avatar with chrome polish>

**prosser13** · 03-19-07

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Originally Posted by gobygoby

Hey no problem! All it does it a small idea to spark something larger. and thats the purpose of this thread. to spread my ideas, and I also draw ideas from you guys when you make comments.

glad it worked for you! Do you think messing with the vga mod is worth it over the picture of the s-video? I mean do you think picture quality would be with the time investing into it?

Hmmm...the picture quality is OK, but I've got text on there and its not that great for text.

However, I've heard their much better for images than for text so I'll take a look at putting an image on it and I'll say what I think

EDIT: Well, it looks reasonable but its having a serious problem with colours like dark yellow - they come out bright orange. Again, I'll have a fiddle and get back to you.

EDIT 2:

Changed these options in PowerStrip:

Brightness: 450%
Contrast: -300%
Temperature: 9500k

And it now shows everything as well as my main monitor!

Not bad for £18, not bad at all!

I'll grab some pics in a second

gobygoby · 03-19-07

So here is the next update to my rig.

I'll start off with a little PSOne action since I know everyone is looking forward to it...butdont get your hopes up too much. this is just a little teaser.

I wanted to make sure the screen actually worked, if you remember when I got it, the idiot from ebay shipped it very poorly and arrived scratched. He wouldnt return emails and has since gone to screw many more people before disapearing from the radar, so I am lucky I actually got it where as the other people never recieved there items.

I first tried it with the S-video connection. Basically you have to go like this

S-video > RCA > mic jack > psone screen

I got a picture right away, but havent had the time to configure any settings in Powerstrip. Its a program to get the picture just right on the screen. Well, here are a few pics of it on.

And unfortunatly thats about all I got for now. As soon as I finish painting the touchscreen, the PSOne is the next mod. So it should come shortly!

So Next I decided I wanted to repaint the shell of the touchscreen because it was scratched and looked crappy, plus I didnt like the color. here are a few before pictures.

And here are all the parts disassembled and ready for teh first sanding before primer.

The LCD

The buttons

oh ya, and before I start, here is the supplies.

Krylon Chrome color paint, Rustoleum Plastic Primer, and I decided to try something new I have never used before. Plasti-cote Kustom Effex Klear Kote.

And the sand paper. The assorted pack came with P220, P400, P800, 1000. The I also got a pack 0f 2000 grit.

So I started by snading down the plastic to prep for primer, I started with the P220

Getting the original paint off the back support panel. The rest of the shell was a black plastic through and through.

Paint no more!

Close up

The back panel sanded..I have been wet sanding everything.

One thing that worked nicely instead of a sanding block was a simple and soft dish scrub pad. It allowed for the sand paper to conform to the curves.

gobygoby · 03-19-07

So I did two coats of primer then I went up to the P800. Here are a few pics of the unsanded primer.

Kinda hard to tell, but these next two have been sanded with the P800.

Now here is two coats of chrome and sanded down with the 1000.

Here is the pieces after two more coats of chrome.....well.....it sure doesnt look like the cap. More like a silver. Not exactly what I was wanting...but it looks nice anyway.

Drying out in the sun...it sure was nice this weekend!

Then I sanded it down again with 1000, and applied another 2 light coats of chrome. The finish was very smooth, I did try try to sand a piece with 200 but it made the paint look like crap so I left it as is and proceded with the clear coat. Honestly, that last color coat,unsanded was VERY smooth!

I have taken any mroe pics but I did get 2 coats of clear. I plan on doing about 2 more before the buffing.

So here is the step by step so far.

Wet sand P220 > primer > Primer > Wet sand 800 > chrome > Chrome > Wet sand 1000 > Chrome Chrome > Clear coat> Clear coat> Clear coat> Clear coat

I plan on using these products for buffing, polishing and waxing

1. 3M Perfect it II buffer
2. 3M hand polish
3. Mothers carnuba Wax

thats about all for now!

Later
Kyle

BrinNutz · 03-19-07

Lookin good man...I'll be down in Indy on the 31st and April 1st. Got a party to go to. So, maybe sunday I'll pop over and see your rig in all it's glory, eh?

gobygoby · 03-19-07

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Originally Posted by BrinNutz

Lookin good man...I'll be down in Indy on the 31st and April 1st. Got a party to go to. So, maybe sunday I'll pop over and see your rig in all it's glory, eh?

That would probably be cool...just have to check with the boss!

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