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General Discussion Area / Re: Thought you might like to know

« on: 30 December 2006, 21:17:29 »

What, this one, on sale at £99?

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_productId_173083_langId_-1_CarSelectorCatalogId__CarSelectorGroupId__varient__categoryId_33931_crumb_33958-31562_parentcategoryrn_33931

lol for fook sake, i hate their website. I searched for "socket set":

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CatalogSearchResultView?searchTerm=socket+set&storeId=10001&catalogId=10151&langId=-1&pageSize=10000&beginIndex=0&beginIndexForPagination=0&sType=SimpleSearch&searchType=EXACT&searchTermCaseSensitive=no&searchTermOperator=LIKE&searchTermScope=3&coSearchSkuEnabled=true&resultCatEntryType=2&sortOrder=ascending&resultType=2&topCategoryId=ALL&x=0&y=0

And it does not list it!  

Cheers for that TB, extremely tempted to buy one!  

37217

General Discussion Area / Re: Thought you might like to know

« on: 30 December 2006, 20:57:06 »

Cheers x25xe, if anyone spots that 150 set in the sale PM me...

Their crap site does not even list the 150 set  

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General Discussion Area / Re: Thought you might like to know

« on: 30 December 2006, 17:18:29 »

which set was it again? just browsing their crap website..

got a 120 piece set for £120.... was it the 150 piece set to go for?

150 is the one. Not perfect, but would be ideal for your euro trip. (Spanners little thin, dig in hands a bit)...

Come have a look at the one I bought....

Will do, need to pick up the bits as well.

Although its nasty weather at there at the moment

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General Discussion Area / Re: Thought you might like to know

« on: 30 December 2006, 14:13:33 »

which set was it again? just browsing their crap website..

got a 120 piece set for £120.... was it the 150 piece set to go for?

37220

General Discussion Area / Re: Thought you might like to know

« on: 30 December 2006, 14:01:48 »

Is that the Halfords on the Uxbridge Road just outside Southall?

Tempted to get one of those socket sets if they are in the sale, sods law they won't be any sales on around the time i am looking for them.

Where the actually in the sale, just out of stock??

37221

General Discussion Area / Re: Just an idea

« on: 30 December 2006, 21:37:58 »

feel sorry for you there mate.

Where you in town buy any chance? Could look into CCTV cameras?

For the past 3 years all my mobile phones have had cameras built in, and 95% of the time i have my phone with me...

37222

General Discussion Area / Re: The last moments of my PC

« on: 28 December 2006, 21:13:03 »

I was reading this in the Macworld magazine a while ago:

http://www.macworld.com/2006/08/features/macproprice/index.php

Ok its a bit biased the Mag, but gives a good review, if you can be asked to read the whole thing, just skip to the stats at the bottom. Make interesting reading  

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General Discussion Area / Re: The last moments of my PC

« on: 27 December 2006, 17:55:20 »

When the Dell desktop (presumably?) arrives, unplug CD/DVD driver, and plug in your old HDD in its place. Then copy over.

im pretty sure the desktop i bought recently tho not dell had 2 ide slots and only one used with the dvd

So may be an option to bung the old hdd in bolt it in and leave it there.

Not sure about AMD stuff, but Dell's Intel stuff tends to follow the Intel reference, which means on one IDE channel, everything else is SATA...

I quite like the new range of Apple's stuff, not too badly priced. Even better with the higher education discount! (15%)

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General Discussion Area / Re: The last moments of my PC

« on: 27 December 2006, 17:04:03 »

how exactly did it die?

If you just got a bang and a puff of smoke then its most likely the PSU which has blown and they are only around £15 to replace. Unless the mobo itself has died?

It was a bit temperamental lately and you couldn't switch it on easily, sometimes it would throw u in  the bios, but it would evenntually start. Yesterday and since it starts and then after 2 seconds it dies. The problem is that i have about 100gig of my music, engineering documents, e books, etc, and i don't want to lose them. What is the easiest way to extract the info?

Sounds like it could do with a re-formatt to be honest.

I'd buy an external hard drive (Amazon have the MyBook 250Gb for £64) copy all you files to that, then rebuild and keep all the stuff you don't use much on the MyBook.

I reformat my PC/Laptops every 6 months, keeps them running smoothly. Like an Omega, good maintenance and they keep on going  

Whilst a rebuild never harms Tunnie, that sounds like h/w issue.  I would guess psu or memory (very difficult to tell those faults apart)

Very true, at my old job it was easier to troubleshoot. I always had a "set" of known working components, and put that in the suspect PC to test and see if that was the problem. Trouble is can't do that at home

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General Discussion Area / Re: The last moments of my PC

« on: 27 December 2006, 16:55:27 »

how exactly did it die?

If you just got a bang and a puff of smoke then its most likely the PSU which has blown and they are only around £15 to replace. Unless the mobo itself has died?

It was a bit temperamental lately and you couldn't switch it on easily, sometimes it would throw u in  the bios, but it would evenntually start. Yesterday and since it starts and then after 2 seconds it dies. The problem is that i have about 100gig of my music, engineering documents, e books, etc, and i don't want to lose them. What is the easiest way to extract the info?

Sounds like it could do with a re-formatt to be honest.

I'd buy an external hard drive (Amazon have the MyBook 250Gb for £64) copy all you files to that, then rebuild and keep all the stuff you don't use much on the MyBook.

I reformat my PC/Laptops every 6 months, keeps them running smoothly. Like an Omega, good maintenance and they keep on going  

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General Discussion Area / Re: The last moments of my PC

« on: 27 December 2006, 16:51:50 »

After 4 years of trouble free service my PC decided to die. It was an Asus Nvidia MB, Athlon 2600Xp, and 1gb ram + various bits and pieces from previous PC's. Due to the fact that the PC is a very important part of our lives at the moment(Wife uses it to chat with Familyand friends in Lebanon and i do all my courseworks for my part time MSc course) I decided to replace it promptly and i ordered a dell with all inclusive. So what are your opinions about DELL any experiences? Are they any good. It is the first time that i buy a ready built PC as it worked out cheaper.
Regards
Kostas

Dell are very good, and good value as long as you don't go for extras...  ...reliable, reasonably well built, and nice a quiet.  You won't be disappointed with any Intel based PCs they sell.  Alas, like any big company, if you have to ring tech support, you have to go through the usual dumb scripts. But on the bright side, at least they have tech support who you can speak to...

I use my dads old Dell laptop, its battery life is good. Alas i think their website is poo, when i was going though the specs, their website would not allow me to add a wireless card to a PC build  :-/

When i rang up they said, "ohh no Sir you have to ring up for that"  

On the whole good machines  

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General Discussion Area / Re: The last moments of my PC

« on: 27 December 2006, 16:25:46 »

how exactly did it die?

If you just got a bang and a puff of smoke then its most likely the PSU which has blown and they are only around £15 to replace. Unless the mobo itself has died?

37228

General Discussion Area / Re: New Maintenance Guides

« on: 31 December 2006, 08:27:27 »

Looking good x25xe, nice one  

37229

General Discussion Area / Re: Omega B v6 twin turbo

« on: 30 December 2006, 20:53:47 »

hummm errrr No.

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General Discussion Area / Re: What a bugger of a job..

« on: 30 December 2006, 13:29:32 »