Touch Screens going cheap!!!!! not long left

[craiglincs]

Ex mcdonalds touch screen pc's going cheap, was going to get one but unsure if spec would be suitable?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/DVE-Touch-Screen-Computers-Woody-gen1_W0QQitemZ180209347374QQihZ008QQcategoryZ179QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[Barcrest]

Those should run freebox no problems, nice find and a nice price. I see it ended with him having 9 left you might want to contact him to see if he has more to sell. I used something simular but it was a PIII 700mhz and it worked perfectly ok.

[craiglincs]

I contacted him, the spec I got was as follows

Celeron 2.4ghz 256 ram, 40gig HDD

He has 180 left! lol

[squirrellydw]

do you know if you can upgrade these at all?

[Barcrest]

That spec is perfectly fine, however you might want to upgrade the ram to 512mb. I think i was running 128mb in my p700 and it worked so 256 would work. It's just XP likes 512mb to run smoothly really.

[craiglincs]

There are more on ebay again! ..... search for "DVE Touch screen"

The inners have a MTE PC700 motherboard, they run on pc266 (2100 or 2700) RAM and support up to 2GB

The HDD is a standard sized IDE device, these do not have CD rom drives but have a spare IDE port for one.

They also support one PCI devide (low profile) or 2 PCI with an expansion card for use with an external display or TV out, they also have a standard VGA out port on them if you want a direct copy of monitor 1 as your output.

I have just loaded tinyxp on it and freebox runs like a dream with the 256, I set the TinyXP mode to Hardcore, which when booted is only using 50MB of RAM! and i still have access to networking etc

All in all i'm well happy with it!

Drivers were a bit of a pain but I now have a full suite.

Oh.... and to make things even better..... they have a 2 channel amp built into the board, this is currently rigged up to 2 small cones inside the unit, the sounds fairly good but with bigger speakers would be far better!

If i could applaud myself I would lol!..... i'll have to settle for treating myself to a few beers and watching England tonight! hehe

[Barcrest]

I am hopefully getting a room tonight. No internet access there though however i will be able to set up my PC at least.

[hunty3000]

i brought one of these pc's about a month ago. i went to put it together today a notice that ive lost a cable. does anyone have the pinouts from the 4way ribbon cable of the touchscreen to the board that it goes to. any help would be appreceated

[hunty3000]

found it now,

[Barcrest]

Damn he is selling these for £150 each now, i should have got on board earlier