The VHS PC

[ghosthunter]

Update:

The Pentium III motherboard died a natural death. This gave me an opportunity to upgrade to something faster since the P3/800mhz CPU was having problems decoding in-sync video & audio from certain high quality DIVX & MP4 files. I found a good deal for an AMD Sempron 2600+ CPU and Red Fox motherboard. Since the board only uses DDR ram, I also got 256megs of 333mhz DDR.

A couple of weeks later, my old Seagate 3.5inch 20gig HDD also started to fail. This could be the increased heat from the new position I placed it inside the VHS case. I replaced with a 2.5inch Seagate 80gig HDD which gave me lots of extra space. With the extra space, I installed a WinFast TV tuner card.

After re-installing Windows XP (remember, the 20gig HDD failed) and all the other software along with it, the VHS-PC version 2.0 runs well.

I'll post pictures of it soon.

All I need now is a classic LED style clock installed in the front face of the VHS case.

Current config:
AMD Sempron 2600+
Red Fox motherboard w/ built-in sound & LAN
256meg 333mhz DDR ram
NVidia GForce4 MX440SE (with video out)
Seagate 2.5inch 80gig HDD
CDRW/DVDROM notebook drive with external USB case
Linksys WiFi network card
WinFast TV Tuner card
R/F wireless keyboard w/ joystick mouse