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Scott

Good to hear from you, i read occasionally but dont always bother logging in.

Since my rover ownership ive been through a saxo, an xj6 sport, a 91 passat, an 86 MR2 heap, and now on a 5th gen Prelude 2.2VTi which is nice...

hope all is well in canade?

Scott

aint posted in ages, but still read here. been through a few non rovers since, including a passat, a saxo, a Jag XJ6 sport, and now a boxy 1986 mk1 toyota mr2. i was just looking back over the top 100 post count users, and thinking that a lot of the old RT'ers are no longer around (myself included)....

Scott

null byte is right. As someone who re-sells web hosting and email services, ive had complaints come in that are very real and can end in that sub account being suspended, based on just 1 complaint, on an email that was considered SPAM. Its unlikely to happen, but the call could go in against your fr...

Scott

i guess so. the straight 6 has been tried and tested, in various guises, for many years, and as such is pretty reliable engine. i only had 1 split small water hose on mine, otherwise relatively trouble free (apart from the heater pump motor!) the earlier v8 engines had some problems like timing chai...

Scott

nice car, rovers dont even compare sadly...

I had an x300 sport, in turquoise, lovely car! could have done with the 4 litre though...

had thought about an XJR myself (either an 8 or a 6), but the missus thinks its an old mans car

Scott

some well old photos there on flukes photobucket account! picture of my car on the rollers, a picture of me at totb, a pic of me at looking at robs sausages (lol), and i think the back of my head appears in a few other places (santa pod), that was ageeeeeeeeeeeeees ago, even a pic on the way back fr...

Scott

Not sure why, but had to buy me one of these the other day. This isnt mine, but mines an '85 in the same colour combo...

Toyota mk1a MR2

Scott

Money isnt everything. I just gave up a recent new job because the job sucked, and took an 8k drop on a similar salary. Was unemployed for a week and then went back to the place i had only just left. I went for the new job initially because i wanted to 'expand' etc, but turns out in a bigger company...

Scott

used to be skint all the time, once you get into the habbit of saving and not spending, its easy enough to turn things around. 1 car is more than enough tbh, aslong as youve had the one you want at some point, then you can move on. I recall having 2 nackered rovers at one point, no wonder i was skin...

Scott

also, writing to any flash based media (USB stick / SSD) as a temporary file, would leave traces on the flash chip due to wear levelling, but the chip would need to be unsodlered from the stick and probed (oo er). So if you saved your passwords in a file on the stick, then encrypted it, then deleted...

Scott

the thing with using the same password all over is fairly scary. When you type your password into rovertech, how do you know how its stored? it could be easily stored in plaintext for all the see. Not all websystems are secure, and if the password stored isnt hashed, and someone gets hold of the dat...

Scott

Parts are now on the way.

Cheers to rovertech!

Thanks,

Scott

Scott

Hi All, Dads alarm is playing up, but so are the fobs, cant be coincidence considering fob is like new and batteries are fine, so will replace both and see what the crack is. So thats from a late 600 (618/620/620ti/623), fobs + ecu in the right hand side of the boot (dont need keys). Must be confirm...

Scott

Is this an early car (1 button fob) or a late car (2 button fob)? I need a late car.

Do you have a working fob, and the matching ECU from the right hand side of the boot?

Cheers

Scott

well, css , its the best!

Scott

Wireless? Change the wireless channel - you might be getting interference. Otherwise, upgrade the firmware to the router - it'll be a speedtouch router, and I upgraded my 'Be' router to a version of the firmware above what was recommended, as I kept suffering connection drops. It's perfect now. Jus...

Scott

thats literally boiling

crazy...

although whilst browsing the other day, i did find some crazy forum with peoples huge home file servers (20disk+)

Scott

hitting with a hammer is a good fix for most motor problems

i just fixed (Again) the coolant pump motor on the jag, my home made brushes must have binded up, 1 wack, continuity restored, just like the washer jet motor...

Scott

feck it, aint been to an event in ages... 1. Matt077 MG ZR Need to find £20 2.Phoenix3dfx225 (Viv) Rover coupe 220 with my Twenty Quid ready 3. Jase Focus ST (probably) With an even better Twenty quid ready 4. Rob 5. James3990 Rover coupe 216 (Bringing a friend) 6. Andy Saxo VTR (James3990 mate) 7. ...

Scott

if the battery has been flat for ages, it could well be mullered. Check the voltage when you crank. If it drops very low, then the batt is the problem. Otherwise, im guessing you could assume some immobiliser issue or similar? You could try giving the starter motor a whack with a hammer incase its s...

Scott

yeah ive had dodgy ps2 mice and keyboards cause pc not to boot propperly, or just randomly crash... you might want to download the latest wireless card drivers and nvidia drivers. tbh, ive never had an nvidia card mis-behave in any hardware setup, unlike the flakey ATI jobbies! ive also noticed from...

Scott

havent been to a rolling road day in ages. would be interested to pop down and put the jag on the rollers...

Scott

technically, shouldnt make any difference. Its always worth installing the latest drivers for nvidia, they are a big download though. some nvidia cards draw a lot of power, if the card has a HD style power connector on it, use it with the psu, to stop it drwaing too much power through the mobo, whic...

Scott

try a new psu tbh, they are usually the most common thing to die in a PC. And the new stup will only be drawing more power than the old, probably just pushed it over the edge... Sometimes ive seen psu's go 'funny' and all thats required is unplugging everythign the psu is connected to, unplug from m...

Scott

assuming youve done the following? gone into main bios, enabled RAID on the sata ports your using. subsequently rebooted, gone into raid bios. set up your logical drive (1x raid 5, comprising 3 connected physical disks etc) 'initialise' this (might do it automatically in simple mobo raid setups) set...

Scott

what os are you using?

which mobo did you go for?

had no trouble myself installing 64bit win7 straight onto raid0 on nvidia chipset system.

Assuming you have set up the raid in the raid bios, and initialised it / set it bootable, see what happens when you boot from the DVD.

Scott

get to b&Q, and get some threaded bar (its the right thread), and a bag of nuts. for 2 quid you have enough to make all new studs for all 5 places.

you might be lucky with the gasket depending if its the metal one or not.

Scott

also found a nice USB TV stick from ebuyer that is USB, although i dont know if itll work with win7 media center, and whether or not a single core atom can cope...

might buy one next month (single core acer revo) and the usb tv stick for 205quid all in, for PVR/media center...

Scott

if you just want to play back HD, then the atonm stuff is fine, as long as you have the built in ION nvidia shizzle. The atom is fine, even single core, for playing back HD. In 'accelerated' setups such as with nvidia GFX cards, the decoding of the mpeg stream is handled purely on the nvidia graphic...

Scott

Some people earn less , probably why they cant afford tyres...

Scott

will be interesting to find all that off the shelf since you have a mixture of linux / windows. ms sql dbs cost me 10quid/month as a reseller, mysql is of course unlimited and free... the adobe stuff will be fine on most linux servers, its mostly client side from what i can make out, with some serve...

Scott

It was a quite impressive amount of smoke, although not quite as impressive as when the coolant hose broke on my first Tickford and emptied pressurised coolant onto the hot turbo and promptly disappeared in a giant white cloud. :lol: Bit more dangerous though. ;) Ill agree to that having had it hap...

Scott

plenty of people have had the PS pipe damaged by heat on downpipes (modified ones mostly).

Scott

nasp or turbo, depending on the year, the seals can differ yes, but its not exclusive to turbo vs nasp, just year...

Scott

yeah, just wack in the new hard drive, check its set as master and cd drive is slave if on the same channel, use an 80pin ide cable if available. check its recognised in the bios, then just boot from the cd (again you might need to change bios settings to boot from CD). Dont forget to destroy old ha...

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