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General Discussion Area / Re: my omega on ebay

« on: 22 July 2007, 11:05:54 »

And, how about a link on your listing to Omegaowners.com - potential buyers may be interested in joining

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General Discussion Area / Re: my omega on ebay

« on: 22 July 2007, 10:55:26 »

Whats the gearbox like?

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General Discussion Area / Re: Project Elite LPG Disaster

« on: 23 July 2007, 08:33:58 »

Why dont you get the replacement power plant, dump it on my engine stand in my garage and we can check it over, change manifold gaskets etc etc before fitting.

All in the relative warmth of my garage and mounted on an engine stand makes it easy to get at everything.

Should mean minimal work under the bonnet to.

I wish I lived nearer Nottingham sometimes - engine stands and warm garages on hand

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General Discussion Area / Re: Emissions light sorted !

« on: 22 July 2007, 18:25:22 »

Strange, when assembling the engine I could not get it quite right...(I even asked Mark to take a look).. however today, it took me less than 5 minutes to see what was up.

Shows what looking at things with a clear head can do!!

Aye, if I can't get my head round something, stopping for a cuppa and/or sleep on it, its usually clearer afterwards

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General Discussion Area / Re: Big trouble

« on: 23 July 2007, 09:13:08 »

The old trick used to be to remove the nail, and insert a screw with some sealent on it....

Mark "Bodger" DTM

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General Discussion Area / Re: Big trouble

« on: 22 July 2007, 16:15:05 »

petrol station?

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General Discussion Area / Re: A PC problem that is doing my head in!

« on: 22 July 2007, 18:23:51 »

Not read any of the replies, but...

Instability and rebooting/lockups even during text based installation of windows, indicates iffy RAM or CPU usually.

CPUs rarely fail intemittently (unless overheating, but AMD's that overheat tend to cause permenent failure).

Also, if not onboard, change the video adapter - ATI have a bit of a reputation for instability/intolerance, but usually only in hires/hicolour...

Failing that, doesn't leave much left but mobo.


I did have a curious one a few weeks ago, whereby the CD drive would cause lockups...  ...never seen that one before...

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General Discussion Area / Re: A PC problem that is doing my head in!

« on: 22 July 2007, 15:54:42 »

Yes, I did use a proper antistatic strap (have made that mistake before)

I suspect faulty memory, but could be PSU. Failing that, mobo.

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General Discussion Area / Re: A PC problem that is doing my head in!

« on: 22 July 2007, 14:22:11 »

I built an identical system with an IDE HDD and had no problem at all....(without using a disk at F6)
But no matter which IDE HDD I use with this motherboard, I get serious instability when installing XP.
Admitedly none of the HDD's I am using are new, one is an 80GB the other a 40GB

your thoughts...

Ahhhh, the fog clears.

Did you use a proper antistatic strap when building them?

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General Discussion Area / Re: A PC problem that is doing my head in!

« on: 22 July 2007, 12:48:21 »

Well I shall get hold of them tomorow morning and play hell

If your confident that it should not be a motherboard problem (you will not be quoted hehe)
then I will probably just order a new SATA HDD.

Thx for the advice, much appreciated  

Hang on, did that IDE disk build ok in an identical motherboard OK?

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General Discussion Area / Re: A PC problem that is doing my head in!

« on: 22 July 2007, 12:03:55 »

Yeah, SATA is stable....just the IDE that is giving me grief...

Still struggling now  

Question is, what is the next move? new MB? New SATA HDD?

Having already purchased the CPU and MB I need to get this running but without too much more outlay.
If playing with the IDE drivers does not work, what do you suggest?

Contact the supplier, stating issues. They may try to fob you off to manufacturer, but ensure they give you a proper contact....

Worth checking that the drive settign matches the cable - then often supply Cable Select IDE cables with new mobos now. That wrong can cause instability.

SATA may be best option though, smaller cables help with cooling.

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General Discussion Area / Re: A PC problem that is doing my head in!

« on: 22 July 2007, 10:52:22 »

You might want to try using an IDE HD instead of SATA. I have been using AMD processors for many years, and they have always worked great. I use several Asus A7V8X MBD's and they have all been fine, until I added a SATA drive to one. It should work, but has been unreliable. Its not the drive, its the add-on SATA interface to the standard motherboard chipset that is not reliable/fully developed. With PC's sometimes the idea of testing one bit at a time helps, then add another part and test for a while. I recently found some laptops using INTEL processors were crashing because the processor heatsink compound was spread on too thick (INTEL processors tend to run very hot). If you can fit a small IDE HD, load up some OS and run it for 24 hrs then this shows that this configuration is working OK. Then add another part and do same again, until you reach the stage where it starts to fall over.

I think he was using IDE. The one using SATA was stable.

Intel processors, esp the current crop, run cooler than equiv AMD.  It was the P4D about 4yrs ago that run hot, much improved in P4E. The P4E in my MCE is cool enough to be (nearly) passively cooled, using just the airflow from PSU. Core range chips, much cooler.

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General Discussion Area / Re: A PC problem that is doing my head in!

« on: 21 July 2007, 22:40:16 »

Welcome to naff AMD stuff  

Seriously, look for IDE driver....

have you found Sammy yet TB? Might be needed  

I think Sammy has run away, never to return  

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General Discussion Area / Re: A PC problem that is doing my head in!

« on: 21 July 2007, 22:39:19 »

So your thoughts are that IDE drivers would help stabalise the system? how would that help with the initial install? or do I just use trial and error till I actually get a working instalation (however unstable) and then update IDE drivers?

Sorry if I am being thick  :-/

First bit of install, during text mode, where screen first goes blue, press F6 so install other disk drivers....

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General Discussion Area / Re: A PC problem that is doing my head in!

« on: 21 July 2007, 22:31:18 »

Welcome to naff AMD stuff  

Seriously, look for IDE driver....