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Duuuuuude
Thankfully I do have a wiki account
Where is there proof of damage? I don't see any in that E3 vid. Have Polyphony confirmed themselves that there'll be damage or something?
I take it you haven't seen Home then? Screw your little cartoon avatar racing, we've got a whole bloody world
I think this shows up the average age of the Xbox user as opposed to the PS3 user quite well. I'm glad I chose the more mature, sensible console now
Ireland is only 12th because our government is a pack of spanners and our people are too lazy/drunk to do anything about it. That's our definition of "peace-time"
There is a lot of home-made connections, all of the fans and case lights were done by me. The majority are soldered and heatshrink'd, some are just twisted, wrapped in insulating tape and cable tie'd. All of the cables are neatly put around one side of the motherboard (without actually being behind it...my case has a gap between the motherboard's tray and the side of the case), away from the fans and the front of the motherboard. The only cables that could come into contact with the fans are the alarm-cable type ones which run under the fans to the lights. If these got a strong enough pull (like being sucked into a fan), they could easily pull off the insulating tape. I've visually inspected all exposed wiring, and it seems fine. There's no joins near the outside of the case anyway.
If the case is grounding, which I assume it is (unless the controller is using something else for earth, it also has USB, eSATA, firewire and a memory card reader), it's been like that since I built it. This is the first time something like this has happened in almost a year of having the machine, so I'm not too worried. It was never right from day 1 though, it used to reboot itself immediately after being shutdown, regardless of BIOS settings or OS used. That righted itself a few months ago however.
Thanks for the help though, much appreciated. I kinda freaked earlier when it happened, there was smoke and a burning smell everywhere when it happened and I shat brix
E: On second thoughts, I have a good idea why it's grounding. I made the lights by putting 3 LEDs together (twisting the legs of each in series) and soldering on a resistor and earth on one end and positive on the other. It's entirely possible that one of the negatives is touching the case, as they're all taped onto it. Tomorrow I'll redo each, and see does that sort it. That's the only thing it could be unless it's the PSU itself earthing
If the case is grounding, which I assume it is (unless the controller is using something else for earth, it also has USB, eSATA, firewire and a memory card reader), it's been like that since I built it. This is the first time something like this has happened in almost a year of having the machine, so I'm not too worried. It was never right from day 1 though, it used to reboot itself immediately after being shutdown, regardless of BIOS settings or OS used. That righted itself a few months ago however.
Thanks for the help though, much appreciated. I kinda freaked earlier when it happened, there was smoke and a burning smell everywhere when it happened and I shat brix
E: On second thoughts, I have a good idea why it's grounding. I made the lights by putting 3 LEDs together (twisting the legs of each in series) and soldering on a resistor and earth on one end and positive on the other. It's entirely possible that one of the negatives is touching the case, as they're all taped onto it. Tomorrow I'll redo each, and see does that sort it. That's the only thing it could be unless it's the PSU itself earthing
Yes. AFAIK it comes from the days of the BL cars. My Mini has a sticker saying "body wired negative earth", as they all do since 1959. I presume that the car manufacturers back then decided that would be the term we'd use Maybe grounding is the official electrician term, but earthing is what I'm used to
It's all fixed and put back together now, working great again. Since it is earthing, it was probably just a positive came into contact with the case, maybe it got sucked into a fan or something and came out of the insulating tape
Maybe grounding is the official electrician term, but earthing is what I'm used to It's all fixed and put back together now, working great again. Since it is earthing, it was probably just a positive came into contact with the case, maybe it got sucked into a fan or something and came out of the insulating tape
Fried PSU?
I turned my PC off today before dinner, and it was working fine. I came back afterwards, turned it on and I heard a crack, with a smell of frying electrics. The PC rebooted (as it does when it shorts out. I know from when I decided to start wiring up my case lights with the PC on It doesn't seem to do any damage though, it's happened a good few times before), and my fans stopped working.
The fans are coming through a 5.25" controller, which has a LCD display showing temps and fan speeds. The display (which uses 5v) is still working, but the fans and the LEDs inside the controller (which use 12v) aren't. When it rebooted the first time, I opened up the side with the ghetto wiring, and tapped it a few times. The fans started cutting in and out intermittently then. I figured it was a loose connection, so I re-did all of the joins and connections, and tried again. Still no luck.
All of the hard drives and disk drives are receiving full power, and the multimeter is showing 5v and 12v as expected on molex. The machine refuses to boot either, it stops right before it checks the disk drives for boot disks. It goes through its routine checks, and gives its usual list of hardware and controllers, which are all present. It stops on verifying DMI pool, which usually only takes a few milliseconds. Going into BIOS, it shows all voltages reading fine, and detects the HDDs and disk drives.
When I connect just the 12v molex wire straight onto one of the LEDs in the fan controller, it lights, even if I remove the molex plug feeding it. I'm fairly sure this means the negative is earthing against the case somewhere, as all lights work when just a positive is connected. I've tried the obvious solution of unplugging the molex plugs going to the case lights and fan controller (the only things I wired myself), but it still refuses to boot and earths somewhere. The weird thing is the fans still won't come on even if they're connected to the controller, which to me sounds like one of the negatives going to the controller is earthing along the way. I've traced it along and there's no signs of damage though.
I'm not sure if it's just the weather, but the PSU fan stays on about a minute after the machine is shut down, which it never does. Maybe it's the PSU itself earthing against the case, causing it to heat up, I'm not sure. The PSU is warm to touch on the outside, which is fairly usual.
I do have a spare 350W PSU floating about, but I'm not sure if it will be able to replace my 550W. I also don't want to have to find and remove all of the PSU's wiring, which is lost throughout the case at this stage after various lighting projects. I'm sure these aren't the problem though, I've removed them all to test it. I'm absolutley stumped at this, it was working flawlessly all day at TF2, and I shut it down and started it as normal. Hopefully I've missed something obvious, or someone smarter than me will see what I've cocked up on
Cheers
EDIT: I've solved the non-booting issue. I left my memory stick in which was formatted as NTFS when I updated Windows 7 from it, and it was trying and failing to find a boot disk on it :doh: (like I said, something REALLY obvious...) So at least I can short out the fans and play away for the mean time And the PSU is acting normal, and not causing the boot failure. So it probably is just a negative earthing somewhere, or else the fan controller is toast...
EDIT2: After a bit of poking around, I found one of my fan controller wiring jobbies (held together with insulating tape has come loose...Problem solved, and I feel like a tool after trying to find a problem for the last 2 hours 
EDIT3: Actually, it's still earthing somewhere. The controller still works without a negative molex attached. But I don't care, it's working again
It doesn't seem to do any damage though, it's happened a good few times before), and my fans stopped working. The fans are coming through a 5.25" controller, which has a LCD display showing temps and fan speeds. The display (which uses 5v) is still working, but the fans and the LEDs inside the controller (which use 12v) aren't. When it rebooted the first time, I opened up the side with the ghetto wiring, and tapped it a few times. The fans started cutting in and out intermittently then. I figured it was a loose connection, so I re-did all of the joins and connections, and tried again. Still no luck.
All of the hard drives and disk drives are receiving full power, and the multimeter is showing 5v and 12v as expected on molex. The machine refuses to boot either, it stops right before it checks the disk drives for boot disks. It goes through its routine checks, and gives its usual list of hardware and controllers, which are all present. It stops on verifying DMI pool, which usually only takes a few milliseconds. Going into BIOS, it shows all voltages reading fine, and detects the HDDs and disk drives.
When I connect just the 12v molex wire straight onto one of the LEDs in the fan controller, it lights, even if I remove the molex plug feeding it. I'm fairly sure this means the negative is earthing against the case somewhere, as all lights work when just a positive is connected. I've tried the obvious solution of unplugging the molex plugs going to the case lights and fan controller (the only things I wired myself), but it still refuses to boot and earths somewhere. The weird thing is the fans still won't come on even if they're connected to the controller, which to me sounds like one of the negatives going to the controller is earthing along the way. I've traced it along and there's no signs of damage though.
I'm not sure if it's just the weather, but the PSU fan stays on about a minute after the machine is shut down, which it never does. Maybe it's the PSU itself earthing against the case, causing it to heat up, I'm not sure. The PSU is warm to touch on the outside, which is fairly usual.
I do have a spare 350W PSU floating about, but I'm not sure if it will be able to replace my 550W. I also don't want to have to find and remove all of the PSU's wiring, which is lost throughout the case at this stage after various lighting projects. I'm sure these aren't the problem though, I've removed them all to test it. I'm absolutley stumped at this, it was working flawlessly all day at TF2, and I shut it down and started it as normal. Hopefully I've missed something obvious, or someone smarter than me will see what I've cocked up on
Cheers
EDIT: I've solved the non-booting issue. I left my memory stick in which was formatted as NTFS when I updated Windows 7 from it, and it was trying and failing to find a boot disk on it :doh: (like I said, something REALLY obvious...) So at least I can short out the fans and play away for the mean time
And the PSU is acting normal, and not causing the boot failure. So it probably is just a negative earthing somewhere, or else the fan controller is toast...EDIT2: After a bit of poking around, I found one of my fan controller wiring jobbies (held together with insulating tape
has come loose...Problem solved, and I feel like a tool after trying to find a problem for the last 2 hours EDIT3: Actually, it's still earthing somewhere. The controller still works without a negative molex attached. But I don't care, it's working again
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The tyre info must be in the MPR. Physics change depending on the tyre compound used, so it must be stored somewhere...Also if you press F12 while in a replay, it shows the user's tyre compounds. How to find it is another matter, I've never touched MPRs before
True, that I guess you'd need to put in other guests so. But what happens if there isn't enough non-racing guests to fill the empty spaces?
I guess you'd need to put in other guests so. But what happens if there isn't enough non-racing guests to fill the empty spaces? Send "/ai AI1" to make an AI join from InSim. I'm fairly sure AI are the only way you could do this, or else join and spec other players, but that's messy and unreliable
Firefox will warn you of reported sites by default
If you want to go with that mentality, you're about 2,500 times more likely to die in a car accident as opposed to a plane accident. 495 aviation deaths occured worldwide in 2008 (including all private and military flights), versus 2,943 road deaths in the UK alone. For comparison, there were no aviation deaths in the UK during 2008.
As far as I understand, the plane was within radio contact range (otherwise how do you think the automatic message came through?), but there was no human transmissions from the plane. The whole thing sounds very strange. I guess we'll never know until the black box is fished up
Other than new hardware, no. You can't just install a program and get double the FPS
Perhaps it could be fixed alongside the damage model. Since it only happens when the suspension gets damaged 
The amazing thing is, it's still €54.99 or something to pre-order it in-store near me
I do this too...Especially the evil mansion part, I make one generation work their ass off for 100's of thousands, and then the second generation builds a HUGE mansion for themselves. And all my sims must have full points in all skills, otherwise they get "killed off" by the time they're adults
E: Now I want to go play Sims 2 again after a ~3 month rest. Curse you, subliminal advertising...
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If he was really the true gangsta' he claims to be, he should have challenged his bitch-ass to one of those singing contests from 8-mile. Fo' sure homie, fo' life. Nd stuff.
Then send an email to the devs. Posting here isn't going to help, I'd highly doubt that the devs contact everyone who claims to have some "valuable information".
BTW, posting your email on a public forum != smart
A bit OT, but in the next few days I plan on integrating an old XP laptop with my car, using my PSP as monitor and mouse. It's going to be used as a media center of sorts, and the amp for my (hopefully arriving soon) sound system. I thought Vista would be pushing it though
I love doing this kind of thing around the docks in GTA IV. Looks so much more amazing in real life though 
Heh I meant the other way I even had < down first, but it looked wrong
I even had < down first, but it looked wrong I was thinking of going for the ahem - "pre-release" version, but it only has half the game in it. And it looks like Sims 2, but with a paint bucket and some new cupboards. If I found it for <€10 in-store I'd get it for sure, but not at the usual extortionate prices games come out at. I suppose it's a bad thing when a game is too crap to bother pirating
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Reason : i'm poor...
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