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General Car Chat / Re: Laptop won't start.

« on: 03 July 2021, 19:15:11 »

Arrgh pages of irrelevant posts.

Right before you power it on is the power light pulsating? when you power it on, do any lights flash? Or just the power light before it goes off? Pay attention to caps and NUM lock lights. Did you do any Windows or hp updates recently?

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General Car Chat / Re: Laptop won't start.

« on: 03 July 2021, 15:41:01 »

If it's 2 years old, it's still under warranty. Don't let the supplier of hp tell you otherwise.

The sales of goods act states, an item must be for for purpose and last a reasonable amount of time. 2 years is not responsible for such an item.

Ok, now for suggestions. Remove the battery, don't plug it in, hold the power button down for 10 seconds. Connect to the PSU, then try the power with no battery present.

There are some specific reset methods, but without the exact model number, if be guessing.

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Omega General Help / Re: Specs for fuel pressure test on 1995 2.0 16v

« on: 21 June 2021, 20:38:09 »

I fully accept I could be wrong here, but on a normally aspirated engine, wouldn't the manifold pressure be a negative value? Well, less than 1 bar. As the engine is sucking.

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General Discussion Area / Re: new version of WINDOWS

« on: 18 June 2021, 13:17:41 »

Some recent motherboards support TPM via a header socket on the board, if you've bought a mobo recently check if it had it and I'd be tempted to try and find a module now because they probably won't make them in a few years time, due them being integrated into the board.

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General Discussion Area / Re: GB news starts today.

« on: 14 June 2021, 12:23:39 »

I can't claim credit for this one, but apparently it's being called 'GBeebies' elsewhere on the internet.

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Alarm sounding intermittently

« on: 09 June 2021, 10:53:12 »

If you do need a switch, I have one.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Was this done on purpose?

« on: 08 June 2021, 21:48:31 »

What about the obvious, Sac-de-cul?

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General Discussion Area / Re: Laptop problem?

« on: 08 June 2021, 21:46:25 »

She reckons battery life is now almost double what it was.

Can't see how.

Was she talking about the laptop? 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Laptop problem?

« on: 07 June 2021, 23:02:44 »

This is why women are so bad at parking cars, something that's 4 inches, they keep being told is 10 inches.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Laptop problem?

« on: 07 June 2021, 15:12:53 »

Does it feel faster?

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General Car Chat / Re: Today's courtesy car...

« on: 07 June 2021, 13:49:09 »

It's possibly got electric power steering, or electric assisted hydraulic steering. It can feel weird.

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Alarm sounding intermittently

« on: 07 June 2021, 00:21:09 »

Does the Omega set the alarm when not using the key? When I've had this before, I used to get out of the car, open the rear door, push the drivers door catch down, which would lock all the doors and then close the rear door. This means no alarm, but at least it's locked.

Just be careful not to leave your keys on the back seat. Although no one would do that, would they? 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Laptop problem?

« on: 07 June 2021, 00:16:50 »

Oh if you do decide to strip it down and it's more than a couple of screws, I take a piece of paper, mark a fixed point on it, such as battery location. I then draw a circle roughly where every screw is and then tape the screw to the paper as I removed it. If you need to strip even further, then take another piece of paper and repeat for the next layer. My record is 4 pieces of paper, I literally had to take everything out of the case to get to the HDD.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Laptop problem?

« on: 07 June 2021, 00:12:17 »

Depending on what the drive is doing, you maybe able to recover data from it. If you need stuff back, my best advice is to do as little as possible with the drive. Preferably, do nothing with it. If you need help with recovery, let me know, I know a little 

YouTube will show you how to remove the HDD for most makes and models. You can decide if it's something you wish to try.

As said above, if you don't need as much space, get an SSD. It will breathe new life into an older machine. Depending on how old, may mean that it's a good time to upgrade.

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General Discussion Area / Don't park in a farmer's gate

« on: 07 June 2021, 00:04:12 »

https://youtu.be/nvBWnlHKdXo

There is more to this story I'm sure.