pmsl Tight JCB racing with a bit off rubbing could be interesting
Bet it feels faster than 30mph ,side by side round a corner.
Sounds like a Top Gear show

Unfortunately, no special events for me .

I think there are 4 different venues around the country.

Reports look good
I presume they don't let you loose on a digger, do they ?
Surely too much of an insurance risk .

PMSL ,Guess I should have put a warning about that

Anybody been to Diggerland ?
Off down that way ,and thought it might be fun for the kids (and me )
Website doesn't say to much , any insight chaps?
Can you dig a hole etc ?

Will applications from teams that completed Season 1 have any preference over new entrants ?

Quote from GT Motion :

I have a leo bodnar box, why will it not recognize my pedals correctly with it on? Thanks!

Which Leo box do you have?
In which way does it not recognize pedals correctly?

Bonus question 10

You can answer this question until: 19:59:59, Thursday 20th August, 2009.
If your answer is correct, you will gain 1.500.000 euro to improve your team!

What does the green flag mean?



Everything's OK now. Go on racing.
Nothing. It isn't used in Formula 1.
You can pass the car in front of you.

Going to try and wire up Leo's board to G25 pedal pot's.
Leo recommends using shielded cable.
Unsure of how to connect the shielded cable.

Is the shield connected to pots ground or usb board ?Or both(ground loop)?
Presume connect ground cable as well as shield?

On G25 pot side ,planning on using crimped spade connectors , original size.

If usb , do you just twist excess shielding and solder to pin connector?

Not to hot with a solder iron, is there an easier way to connect to pin connectors ?

Is this suitable cable

It's not listed in Todays Events or LFS News Headlines on the forum home page.Probably bit late now ,but you never know....

No last minute sign up's?
Come on chaps lets make this a full grid

Blows my 9600xt's socks off
Not got much else to compare with apart from 1st geforce mx420 card !
Running at 1920x1080 (46" LCD)the xt could not run any aa or any eye candy, but 'mostly' managed with big grid starts (15% overclock)
3850 4aa 8af everything maxed out in lfs ,still doesn't dip below v-sync'd 60fps on default clocks, not tested driving yet just replay.
Default clocks are 668/825 ,after a quick fiddle got them to 780/950 .

AGP Aperture size from 64 to 256mb .
Also used ATI Catalyst Control Centre cleaner .
Latest 9.7 agp hotfix drivers from Sapphire
Once it was up and running uninstalled ccc and installed beta ati tray tools , seems to be working a treat

thanks for your help guys

Why do sapphire ask for 30amps then?
Some cards draw more amps than others?

Sorry for delay , couldn't get near pc.

Quote from shiny_red_cobra :

Out of curiosity, does your old video card work the same as it did before after your installed the new power supply? I'm thinking that maybe the power supply is faulty.

Yeah mate , before gtal race uninstalled new hd3850 , left in new psu , and popped in old 9600xt, installed old drivers .Worked first time , no problems (actually seemed to run better than old psu )

Quote from shiny_red_cobra :

And if the power supply has a black PCI-e power connector which fits into the video card I strongly suggest you use that one instead of the thing you're currently using for power. Those special PCI-e connectors are there for a reason, trust me. Forget what the manufacturers say, they think old AGP systems have old power supplies with no PCI-e connectors.

Tried the 8 pin pci connector with (seemingly)no difference

Quote from shiny_red_cobra :

Also out of curiosity, what motherboard do you have?

Its a pre-built Compaq Pressario 6263-ea . Board: Compaq 0804h which is MSI -ms6541

Quote from shiny_red_cobra :

One more thing, can you run GPU-Z and take a screenshot and post it here?

Last edited by Turbo Dad, Sat 15 Aug 2009, 15:58. Reason : Replaced removed screenie

Think it has more to do with the Amp's rather than Wattage.

Tried hot fixes from ati and sapphire direct , various versions

No one else fancy this ?

hardware acceleration to off helps 2d stuff a bit LFS still wont start.
Dxdiag shows DirectDraw/Direct3D/AGP Texture Acceleration as not available.and test Direct3D button is grayed out.
DirectDraw test passed , no problems found

Had another try this afternoon with same results.
Every time I try and start LFS -

Could not detect any suitable screen modes Probable error in graphics driver

Tearing my hair out.
Even tried the cd in the box and ccc would crash on startup lol

It does recommend using 2no 4 pins .
As stated in 1st post ,latest direct x ,removed all trace of last card (ati) and used driver cleaner pro

Only one connector which is 8 pin , but they recommend 2 x 4 pin into splitter which is connected up fine , swapped with other 4pins from hard drive to test , still the same ?

Unfortunately only 4x max on MB, but card 4x/8x compatible

Bought a new psu for the new Sapphire HD3850 AGP card.
Un-installed old card ,removed drivers , used driver cleaner pro .
Installed new card and psu and now I can hardly scroll through a web page it's so slow .
Tried multiple drivers from ati and sapphire from newest to oldest.
Tried with and without CCC and ATI Tray Tools.

Have the graphics card connected with 2no. 4 pin, into a splitter ,into 8pin on the card.Wasnt sure about using the pci-e psu connector.

Got latest direct x ,MotherBoard stuff etc.

Running out of ideas and got 6hr GTAL race on saturday
HELP PLEASE !!

On trying to run LFS , Message-probably driver error

P4 2.6ghz

Last edited by Turbo Dad, Fri 14 Aug 2009, 18:17.

Got a HD3850 agp version and think i need to replace my 220w 12v-5a psu !

Graphics card box says 450w min with 30amp 12v .

Would be nice to pick it up at a high store retailer today , but that might be asking a bit much.

Any advice peeps?


EDIT - Picked an OCZ at local pc store

Last edited by Turbo Dad, Fri 7 Aug 2009, 10:00.

thank you sir :clapclap: