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why is it
« on: 11 November 2007, 18:33:34 »
when finances start to look good, selling my Nintendo Wii's just made a huge bundle on some overtime work, all the expenses come in....


my laptop just died, luckily it looks like its just the hard drive, after 4 years its not too bad!

So potentially looking at a new laptop, but hopefully this new hard drive will fix the problem

Car is running on vapour (another £55!)

Symptoms of the laptop failure:

Started locking up (no HDD activity) just froze, mouse and all.

Difficult to reboot, sometimes refuses to, once it does boot, loads fine but then grinds to a halt and runs dead slow.

Took me about 2 hours to export my e-mails from outlook, trying to save the data from the dying drive.... at least i hope its that and not the motherboard!  :(
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Re: why is it
« Reply #1 on: 11 November 2007, 18:34:50 »
Just £55? mine costs £70 to fill !

You're lucky, I've got to pay a huge chunk of money to HMRC !  ;)

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Re: why is it
« Reply #2 on: 11 November 2007, 18:36:33 »
HDD sounds likely.  Double check its not overheating either...
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Re: why is it
« Reply #3 on: 11 November 2007, 18:37:08 »
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Just £55? mine costs £70 to fill !

You're lucky, I've got to pay a huge chunk of money to HMRC !  ;)


£70!  :o

Not even the Senator costs that much to fill.

I usually brim mine when it just nudges the red, usually costs £55-£60 ish to fill.

A new 120gb laptop hard drive only cost me £44  >:(
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Re: why is it
« Reply #4 on: 11 November 2007, 18:39:01 »
 I need £60 of fuel from light-on to full. Typically, Friday night, needed to fill up and got the slowest petrol pump in the world. I kid you not, it took 10 minutes while I'm stood in the freezing cold...
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Re: why is it
« Reply #5 on: 11 November 2007, 18:39:37 »
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Just £55? mine costs £70 to fill !

You're lucky, I've got to pay a huge chunk of money to HMRC !  ;)


£70!  :o

Not even the Senator costs that much to fill.

I usually brim mine when it just nudges the red, usually costs £55-£60 ish to fill.

A new 120gb laptop hard drive only cost me £44  >:(
Shell pay at pump only allows £60. Tescos is £60 as well. At least Asda is £70 - I can normally get close to brimming it at Asda ::)
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Re: why is it
« Reply #6 on: 11 November 2007, 18:40:11 »
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I need £60 of fuel from light-on to full. Typically, Friday night, needed to fill up and got the slowest petrol pump in the world. I kid you not, it took 10 minutes while I'm stood in the freezing cold...
Get more for your money when cold though ;)
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Re: why is it
« Reply #7 on: 11 November 2007, 18:40:14 »
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I need £60 of fuel from light-on to full. Typically, Friday night, needed to fill up and got the slowest petrol pump in the world. I kid you not, it took 10 minutes while I'm stood in the freezing cold...

Some pumps are dead slow some are faster, i found pumps in the U.S very fast!

James must have an extra big tank.... its its just pissing it straight out again!  ;D
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Re: why is it
« Reply #8 on: 11 November 2007, 18:42:10 »
Well, £1.03 per litre - tank holds 70 litres! That's £70 from fumes! Been the same with all my meega's...
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Re: why is it
« Reply #9 on: 11 November 2007, 18:45:53 »
Must be the week for it! Just had to buy a new DIMM for my home laptop (new one on order from eBuyer, cheaper than secondhand from eBay) so it's crawling on 256Mb!

Glad I brought my work laptop back this weekend!

Went to the usual Shell garage today and regular unleaded still 96.9 so had a tankful of that!

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Re: why is it
« Reply #10 on: 11 November 2007, 18:48:22 »
96.9??? Bloody bargain!!

BP ultimate here is well.... you don't want to know !
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Re: why is it
« Reply #11 on: 11 November 2007, 18:50:01 »
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96.9??? Bloody bargain!!

BP ultimate here is well.... you don't want to know !

V Power is 103.9 at the same place
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Re: why is it
« Reply #12 on: 11 November 2007, 19:21:22 »
Shell is 98.9 petrol and 101.9 diesel where I work (or was on Friday)
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Re: why is it
« Reply #13 on: 11 November 2007, 19:23:01 »
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Just £55? mine costs £70 to fill !

You're lucky, I've got to pay a huge chunk of money to HMRC !  ;)


£70!  :o

Not even the Senator costs that much to fill.

I usually brim mine when it just nudges the red, usually costs £55-£60 ish to fill.

A new 120gb laptop hard drive only cost me £44  >:(

Not too bad Tunnie......what ya whinging at.....youngsters today  ::)

Park yer 2.2 on a slope facing downwards  :y

Came home last night...outa lpg....so on petrol....comp reckoned 18miles range.
Started it this morning....range went --.-- then after a few secs said 58 miles.....
So....i gained 40miles for parking it this way  :y ;D

Mind you after running to the lpg pump this morning.....about 2/3 miles...range had gone down to 30 miles  :o
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Re: why is it
« Reply #14 on: 11 November 2007, 19:27:29 »
Tunnie - give me one of those Wii's, and I'll 'fill' your tank
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