Quote from Nathan_French_14 :

To earth it, you need to unplug the power wires (imo, would be best to unplug all, as there will still be currents running through) and then, holding your computer in one arm, place your hand onto something metal, like a radiator and do that for about 5-10 seconds, then it will be earthed properly.

cheers

Quote from Nathan_French_14 :

Vacuum hose and a brush will be good enough. Obviously, make sure you "ground" the static from the computer before you clean it. I clean mine every 2-3 weeks (have a couple of dogs, and due to it being summer, they are malting like crazy! ). I just take the 2 panels off my case, and then just use a small paint brush and the vacuum hose to get it up. Then, every 3-4 months, i do a major clean on it, like taking the CPU apart and clean that (its good to do that. You will find that the heatsink will be filled with dust if you dont do it regularly) and i then apply some new paste. I also do the same with my graphic cards, but both of them are right at the bottom so they dont collect too much. I then take the fan guard of my PSU and clean all inside that.

so as long as i use the power cable to plug into the mains (but have the plug and hte computer off) the computer is correctly earthed and I can 'quote' unquote - give it a blow?

Thanks all for your answers btw

Hey Guys,

REALLY simple cleaning question.

Last week I installed an additional HDD, but I was surprised to see quite alot of dust/hair within the computer case (I've got cats before anyone says anything :razz

Also the computer is floot mounted.

How do people SAFELY clean the inside of their computers ie get the hair and dust out of the heatsinks or fans on the CPU and graphics card.

Cheers,


Dru.

Quote from Ashley Williams :

Hi all

just want to run this idea past you for a possible new league.

Ok the league would be run over a month with 1 race every week. Week 1 you would race at this track at with A car and then a diffrent car and track for week 2 and 3 but on week 4 the top half overall from the league will go into a A final then the bottom half will go into a B final so if you qualify first in the B the highest you can get is B1. Naturally the races will consist of qualy and a race which will be decided soon i just wanted to run the idea past everyone and all the races will be on a difrent track except for the finals which will both be run on the same track.

A

sounds like ideas that have been used before... so I suppose they are ok, but nothing new.

A word of caution a league of just 4 events will likely die after a few races, once people know they can not win the league or that the combo's coming up are not what they like.

You have to pick your combo's VERY carefully as a result.

TBH if yuo are doing just a 4 week league, you may as week stick to either one car and run on 4 different tracks or run 4 different cars on the same track over the 4 weeks.

Just my 2 pence, ignore at leisure

Quote from fazza430 :

Wrong, I think he may have removed the laps instead. Because it was my yellow flags that were counted and not my laps.

absolutely not.

The Inclusion of BL1R has had the Yellow Flag 'counters' removed. Altohugh IN GAME it will show yellow flags they are NOT INCLUDED on the total.

Quote from danowat :

TBH, points come very far down the list of my requirements, I am much interested in good close racing than points

You are a rose amoungst many thornes

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

LOL >.<

Okay then, I'll type in black and white to match my ex. cow origins

once a cow.....always a cow

Quote from obsolum :

What error message do you get then?

Well, I'm not sure this is an issue anymore.

On Sat he raced many races on CTRA SS1 server

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

Well I like red (All of my posts are in red. It's a habbit I picked up on another forum)

Maybe if I typed in blue....

Ah you see - Blue requests will always be listen too - except if they were posted by a somersaulting cow from Season 1 of the UF Mayhem cup...

The CTRA admins will listen to any well thoughtout and logical request... however - that is instantly dismissed when the text is in Red

should be free to race once more...

Quote from niall09 :

Yup, FXO still pwns.

Am i the only one who suffers terribly with tires?

yup

Quote from Crashgate3 :

I think we have a future Nestle CEO.

a geniune LOL for the first time in a few weeks thanks

here you go

It looks like you have a permanent Ban.....not a 6 month ban

But the thread above should help you out should you wish to contest it

Quote from Jakg :

Corsair PSU's rock - the 450w units have been tested up to 593w before they give out and all the while still getting 83% effeciency...

If Jack says its good then I know its right or that hes just got a free one beta testing and is 'contracted' to talk it up J/K Jack

Quote from amp88 :

In my experience you don't need a lot of power for hard drives - certainly nowhere near as much as even a medium-range CPU these days.

Did you get this drive, Dru? If so, looks good.

Actually i got this one - bit cheaper and a bit smaller but still plenty good enuff for me

Quite funny actually - I installed it with hte sata cable then failed to realise that the second sata connector was a the power one

So i took it out and trawled through the internet for 30 minutes looking for pictures as I was convinced I had been supplied a HDD without a power source

I'm such an idiot when it comes to technology

Quote from theo3000 :

Just testing.

10/10

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

He hasn't exactly been inspiring this season.

Have you actually been watching any races this year - or are you only looking at the championship points table?

Quote from Toddshooter :

Yup the only thing I would think about is your power supply. A little extra juice is needed to spin it up and run it.

Current PSU is a modular hx520W Corsair - should be enuff with my titchy system

TSW Imolas FTW....

18 years old and had them on my Renault 21 Turbo

Quote from swisscosmo :

oh ok thx i thought he may have differnet name since people do that

i just type that username into LFS and it found it

Cheers mate - looks great - I'll grab it later when at home.

Thanks for your hard effort on this one - it is appreciated

Spent £50 on a 320GB a 500GB Seagate Barracuda.

Hooked it up an works like a charm

Video editting is gonna be so much better now. I did a test and it handles 30 TBO's driving by in 1280 reso no problems

Thanks all for your help

Regards,

Dru.

I think all 4 points are good and valid Dan

But you forgot to put point 5 down:

5) driving the Baby-R. Cause once you've driven that - you think anything else is REALLY fast

Quote from ATC Quicksilver :

It would be nice to see these things banned from racing servers and restricted to cruise servers, because the number of times I've had replays ruined by some numpty without a helmet is silly.

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