From receiver to HTPC, part 10

And this is what it looks like internally when all parts are built in; see the photo. When I tried to put in the PSU, I had this one available, I found that it had too many cables. Once it was used in a computer with a lot of harddisks; the PSU offers a lot of connectors for that purpose. But this wealth of connectors is quite an overkill here. But it fits in the case, otherwise I had to cut cables of buy another PSU.

The motherboard, from an old Compaq D310 desktop, requires that a casefan is connected. I cannot disable the check in the BIOS and without the casefan it will not boot automatically. So I took a casefan and used 2-sided tape to attach it to the obsolete PCI connectors. Probably I regret this solution of taping it to the connectors later, but for the moment this is the best I can think of. And it blows on the heatsink of the graphics card; btw, the fanspeed is regulated by the motherboard and so far it runs at a very low speed.

The power switch is connected to the motherboard; see the bottom-left of the photo.

At the bottom you see black cables with red tape. They connect the 12V from the PSU to the LED lights. The 5V PSU output is, in combination with a 33 Ohm resistor to reduce it to ~4V, connected to the needle of the frequency scale.

The PSU itself is mounted to the bottom with tiewraps and some rubber to reduced vibrations.

I am glad that I do not need a harddisk and CD/DVD drive; it won't fit. It boots from USB and there's no need for the CD/DVD. All media, so MP3, videos and recordings, are stored on a server so the network is where it gets the media from.