I've got an Intel Pentium 90 machine running in the back of my vehicle serving as a mp3 player. The only modification I made to it was to pack the hard drive into a bunch of hard foam within the area for 5 1/4" devices. I stole some foam from hard-drive shipping boxes at work. Before I packed the drive in foam I had to format the drive a few times dew to vibration screw-ups.
For power you should keep the motherboard and such a few steps away from your alternator. This can be done through a number of different methods, I use a 300watt inverter (way bigger than you should need) with a small ups plugged in between the pc and the inverter. Before I put in the ups I had to add another car battery and a battery isolator to fix a problem with the machine rebooting sometimes while starting my engine.
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I've got an Intel Pentium 90 machine running in the back of my vehicle serving as a mp3 player. The only modification I made to it was to pack the hard drive into a bunch of hard foam within the area for 5 1/4" devices. I stole some foam from hard-drive shipping boxes at work. Before I packed the drive in foam I had to format the drive a few times dew to vibration screw-ups.
For power you should keep the motherboard and such a few steps away from your alternator. This can be done through a number of different methods, I use a 300watt inverter (way bigger than you should need) with a small ups plugged in between the pc and the inverter. Before I put in the ups I had to add another car battery and a battery isolator to fix a problem with the machine rebooting sometimes while starting my engine.