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Old 27-03-2010, 04:34 PM
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Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)
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Excellent Warren Looks filthy, but that just needs a good clean out. Did they supply the perspex air channel panel that sits over the CPU/fan area just under the main hatch? It really relies on it being there, as without it the fans go full-bore for most of the time rather than just every so often.

I'd try any old AGP graphics card and see if you get a screen. If you can get a card compatible with the DirectX 9-specific GeForce FX5200 even better, but anything should "work" to give to a display. Here's one on eBay for a few tenners: http://cgi.ebay.com.au/NVIDIA-GEFORC...item1e5a7f6cbe

What do you think of the solidity of the cabinet? Pretty good huh!

Maybe grab yourself a $69 Apple keyboard (extended - new new "flat" short keystroke type) - don't use a standard USB 101-key unit as the mapping is all wrong. If you haven't used one of the new keyboards they take a little getting used to, but are brilliant once you do. http://store.apple.com/au/browse/hom...co=MTM3NDY5NTE

The mouse doesn't matter as long as it's two-button.

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