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General Discussion Area / Re: Blue Screen

« on: 20 November 2007, 20:00:15 »

Your lucky.....last time my laptop had the blue screen of death.....it needed rebuilding.....actually just remembered thats not true.....it blue screened about two weeks ago on start up.....but it had been running on battery and went into suspend mode.....so i guess the battery gave up before it had finished 'suspending'.....its got a knackered battery in it......will run for 20mins max on battery.

Last time mine bsod'd was when I was laying in the bath, and I dropped it  

Was that bsod or crackle fizz pop cloud of smoke?

It was balanced on the side. Fortunately it fell on the floor, rather than in the wet stuff...

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General Discussion Area / Re: Blue Screen

« on: 20 November 2007, 19:36:05 »

Your lucky.....last time my laptop had the blue screen of death.....it needed rebuilding.....actually just remembered thats not true.....it blue screened about two weeks ago on start up.....but it had been running on battery and went into suspend mode.....so i guess the battery gave up before it had finished 'suspending'.....its got a knackered battery in it......will run for 20mins max on battery.

Last time mine bsod'd was when I was laying in the bath, and I dropped it  

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General Discussion Area / Re: Blue Screen

« on: 20 November 2007, 19:23:44 »

Seeing as none of mine have blue screened, and it needs a kernel process to bsod it, I'm guessing something with the AV...

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General Discussion Area / Re: Vibrations - GONE!

« on: 15 October 2007, 17:50:46 »

I'm afraid that, now I've fixed this, and paid £110 for 2 new tyres, I'm going to have to charge you £50, if you want the car...

£45 for cash, but only if you valet it!

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General Discussion Area / Re: Vibrations - GONE!

« on: 15 October 2007, 17:17:40 »

I think you may end up having to replace buckled wheel, as its almost impossible to 'balance' that out...

Apparently buckle was very slight.
There is now NO vibratrion at any speed.

Still replace?

If the vibration returns, I would replace.  If you are happy for now, stick with it, but keep an eye on strange tyre wear.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Vibrations - GONE!

« on: 15 October 2007, 17:02:39 »

I think you may end up having to replace buckled wheel, as its almost impossible to 'balance' that out...

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General Discussion Area / Re: Congrats to the latest Baron

« on: 20 November 2007, 19:09:15 »

Nobody spotted AA tip toe past the 5000 post mark then.

Who's AA

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General Discussion Area / Re: Congrats to the latest Baron

« on: 20 November 2007, 19:08:42 »

MASSIVE

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General Discussion Area / Re: Sony Ericsson release Windows Smartphone

« on: 20 November 2007, 23:22:35 »

I'am after a new one. Mines an Orange m500 I think, but on Vodafone.  I like size, weight, speed, but could do with something running WM5 or later (so battery dying isn't an issue!), wifi, possibly more grunt.

Also borrowed an XDA Exec, despite supposedly faster processor, I find it frustratingly slow...

Kaiser aka Tmob Vario 3 looks nice, even got gps built in.

Ah, but how much. Contract free.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Sony Ericsson release Windows Smartphone

« on: 20 November 2007, 23:07:17 »

I'am after a new one. Mines an Orange m500 I think, but on Vodafone.  I like size, weight, speed, but could do with something running WM5 or later (so battery dying isn't an issue!), wifi, possibly more grunt.

Also borrowed an XDA Exec, despite supposedly faster processor, I find it frustratingly slow...

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General Discussion Area / Re: Sony Ericsson release Windows Smartphone

« on: 20 November 2007, 19:31:01 »

As many here know, I use a Windows phone (not Smartphone, but proper touchscreen type), and for the most part works very well.  Its quite old (3 or 4 yrs), so no 3G.

It does occasionally need the odd reboot - it starts to slow down over the period of a few days.  Its normally shortly after I've used it for web browsing...

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General Discussion Area / Re: Sony Ericsson release Windows Smartphone

« on: 19 November 2007, 22:14:11 »

its a micky take, Sony Ericsson do a PDA phone (P990) but they use a different O/S, some would say it is more reliable than the windows smartphone.

in fact the word smartphone and windows.....can that be used in the same sentence?

Sony couldn't make anything reliable

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General Discussion Area / Sony Ericsson release Windows Smartphone

« on: 19 November 2007, 19:38:58 »

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General Discussion Area / Re: The cambelt slip - conclusion

« on: 20 November 2007, 19:14:44 »

Great news James, and Kev the method I have used on pulleys (used on a Rootes 1600) was socket on bolt, bar on chassis and use starter motor

I tried this yesterday. Bar went "clunk". One dent in my garage floor, but bolt still stuck fast.  

Kevin

You wont shift that bolt without a 3 foot bar and the crank locked, there dam tight but then they need to be.....have you tried warming up the pulley assembly and then tapping it at 12, 6, 9 and 3 Oclock positions in order to get it off the cam belt sprocket.

LOL - I recall

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General Discussion Area / Re: The cambelt slip - conclusion

« on: 19 November 2007, 21:25:46 »

Jaime - no, it didn't have that flat spot after we corrected the timing initially.

I've had the flat spot for about three weeks - I just wonder....

I'm thinking possibly, car conked out and shuddered just to lack of fuel (hence engine sounding awful when it died)

And the cambelt slip was maybe unrelated, just very lucky that I detected it before total failure?

You should see the top idler, it was in a BAD way!!!

But you said it was 4 teeth out. You would know about that.