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General Discussion Area / Computer issue

« on: 15 January 2011, 17:37:49 »

Hi all..
Any ideas on this one !!!!!!!!!

Computer starts to boot up...gets to Windows emblem...then cuts out.
Next try goes to 'Last known config/Safe mode' page.
Have got it started in safe mode....I then shut it down, restarted and it ran perfect. Restarted a few more times ..no problems.
Leave a few hours and it does it again. Once it has booted up it runs fine and dandy.
What I have done to try to remedy, is as follows.....fitted new HD (changed from IDE to SATA)...fitted new PSU...removed RAM and swapped around (fitting singly then doubled)....removed PCI-E card and used onboard graphics.
Only thing I have not done is removed CPU and Heatsink....could it be this?
Have reloaded Windows and updated to SP3.
Personally, I think it may have to be a case of strip it all out and start again.

5597

General Discussion Area / Re: Anyone wear safety shoes? Recommendations?

« on: 13 January 2011, 15:59:33 »

I use Karrimor steel toecap shoes. Got mine from Sports Direct I think it was called in Poole.
Really comfortable, just brought another pair for normal home use.
They also do a boot version.

5598

General Discussion Area / Re: MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!

« on: 23 December 2010, 12:04:34 »

I am going away over Christmas, so to all the Admins and everyone else on the OOF

[size=24]MERRY CHRISTMAS!!![/size]


 

Gonna join in on your post Lizzie...so the forum does not get filled

Same from me to everybody 

5599

General Discussion Area / Re: Road Hog DAD

« on: 23 December 2010, 17:23:21 »

Congratulations to you all
Children are a wonderful gift

Indeed they are....but as they grow older, they become the gift you want to give !!!

5600

General Discussion Area / Christmas cheer NWS

« on: 23 December 2010, 17:07:46 »

http://www.cupsizechoir.com/

Enjoy

5601

General Discussion Area / Re: Make it law to wear winter tyres

« on: 19 December 2010, 12:23:38 »

Do winter tyres wear out if used in normal conditions, or are they for snow driving.

If only for snow...you want us to spend about 4 to 5 hundred quid on tyres to drive in the snow, when around here, in the south, most of the snow is cleared from the roads within a day.
I just don't use the car for a day.

5602

General Discussion Area / Re: Bin men

« on: 16 December 2010, 13:15:41 »

Its not just that fella...on Tuesday I had a chap deliver some budgie cage fronts. He hands me his clipboard and says...'Sign here' 
I said...'It says no signature required', and the panel was greyed out
'Oh' he says...'I don't know what that means'
So to keep the peace I just put a straiht line  with a bit of a wiggle in it.
Bearing in mind, I live at number eight, he then says 'This is number eight isn't it'?...Where is number nine'?

So I point to the house almost opposite, which has a white wall and a LARGE number nine on it.
'That one there' I said. After studying it for a minute he says....
'What...the one with the light on'

Give me strength 
How I ever got my cage fronts I'll never know.

5603

General Discussion Area / Bin men

« on: 16 December 2010, 12:36:09 »

I have just seen it all now....
Today is our recycle day...plastic and paper (seperate boxes)
How they do it here, is one man each side of the street pulls two wheelie bins and puts our boxes of plastic and paper into respective bin. When full, they attach wheelie bins to lorry for emptying
Now my neighbour has put a large cardboard box out beside her bin. Along comes lorry and parks outside neighbours. Along then comes bin man, puts contents of neighbours paper box into wheelie bin. He then starts attacking large cardboard box. 
Meanwhile, man on other side of the street has attached his wheelies to the lorry and emptied it and is off up the street.
Our man is still fighting the cardboard box and trying to get it in his wheelie bin.
Seeing the other man up the street, the lorry driver now opens window and shouts out..'What the f****** **** are you doing.'
'I can't get this box in' says bin man.
Lorry driver jumps out of cab and says 'You f****** stupid f****** ****'.....grabs the box and chucks it straight in the lorry.
The lady opposite who is very religous, said to me..'Did you hear that, I am going in to phone the Council'

I hope we have a Council Tax rise this year so they can employ more like him....I love a good laugh

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General Discussion Area / Re: Worst blizzards in a century on the way?

« on: 16 December 2010, 10:43:34 »

In the early Fifties, I remember having loads of snow that stayed for days. Buses did not run, the main road was drifted over......but life carried on. We just walked to school or work, I never missed any time off. The Head lived at the school and most teachers nearby so as we always had to attend. The few cars that dared out usually seemed to get through. It was the buses that suffered as being here in the Chilterns, you can't go anywhere without going up or down a flippin' hill
Have to admit, modern life is so different, with the car being the most relied on

5605

General Discussion Area / Re: news at ten

« on: 17 December 2010, 00:51:34 »

'Nina na na, Nina na na, hey hey hey, goodbye'....
 Someone will remember this from the 60/70's
 

5606

General Discussion Area / Re: Isn't it a liitle ironic this Ashes series......

« on: 16 December 2010, 18:51:47 »

Cracking

5607

General Discussion Area / Re: this makes my blood boil

« on: 16 December 2010, 10:51:01 »

It makes my blood boil that kids cant be left alone to be kids these days without the fear of these pervs wandering our streets.... only one sentence for this sort and thats a rope around a bloody tree, with a platform for them to fall through when the rope is attached around their necks

What makes you think there's any more of them around these days than in days gone by? They're in the media more, of course, but 50 years ago the media was very different..

Agreed  but as kids  we were taught to  never to speak to strangers  and if we ever did get into trouble we were to shout for help as load as we could as this wouldnt be ignored ,,, since the press have rammed it down our throats its made us scared to let out kids be kids and go off and do what they want to do where ever they chose

I'm glad we're on the same wavelength I don't think it's that there's any more pedos (or murderers, etc etc) out there these days - it's not them that's changed, necessarily, it's the rest of society around them..

Kids don't seem half as sensible, common sense has left the world, personal responsibility is dead, and we've all become incredibly paranoid (not just about this, but terrorism et al as well)

And to re-post something I said in another thread; man I'm being negative tonight.. I need to find some happy pills, stat!

I was talking to a friend just a bit older than me, and he related an occurance that happened here in 1945. The Army had a small camp a mile away, and one day my friend and two girls were walking home from our local school when an army truck pulled up and offered them a lift. The girls went, my friend declined. Later the girls were found raped and dead.......
So it still went on....difference....the culprit was topped !!!

5608

General Discussion Area / Re: this makes my blood boil

« on: 14 December 2010, 09:22:43 »

These sicko's cause another problem in kids sports in as much as because of the publicity, genuine people shy away from taking up positions within kids activities. Which is why Cubs, Scouts, Football and other activities cannot get leaders.
I was a referee for a number of years for Berks and Bucks FA and gave a lot of time to sunday kids footy, and the Schools Football Association
I eventually became Referee Secretary for the large kids league here, and reffed usually 3 games each weekend.
I would not do it again, due to the suspicions that are now always present, and I know a number of others who agree with me.
Its a sick, sick world we live in
Chop their bits of !!!!!!!

5609

General Discussion Area / Re: This may cause a few arguments

« on: 14 December 2010, 20:49:50 »

A quick look on youtube brings this guy up on many occasions protesting about all sorts.
He was not at the demo to protest about tuition fees. He is a professional demonstator

Links ?

See my earlier post, mate

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General Discussion Area / Re: This may cause a few arguments

« on: 14 December 2010, 20:35:40 »

A quick look on youtube brings this guy up on many occasions protesting about all sorts.
He was not at the demo to protest about tuition fees. He is a professional demonstator