Yeah, I doubt it would go far in court. I'm just moody at the moment because I'm in the early stages of a really bad cold.

He should definately have his license revoked and be banned from interacting with any kind of machinery again though.

I didn't read most of this thread because I just needed to post.

Am I the only person that thinks Speed's revenge wrecking should be a court matter? Looking at the clip the other guy could probably have avoided contact but as far as purposefully wrecking it's too close to call (EDIT: OK, it was obvious wrecking or obivous not avoiding wrecking at least). Speed bloody admits to wrecking him just for the hell of it. That's endangering people's lives for no reason other than revenge and it is absolutely disgusting in my opinion. If I were his team boss I'd have sacked him there and then for being an immature little shit.

EDIT: "He started it!" OMG...

Last edited by Hockquan, Thu 6 Nov 2008, 17:44.

The Glock witch hunt being carried out by some people is amusing. Deciding to risk dry tyres when there is a high risk of (more) rain is pretty brave and it nearly got Glock a good position and I applaud him for trying to maximise his gains from the race, it just so happens that the risk he took didn't pay off and it gifted Lewis the championship.

Good job Lewis a truely deserved win by the only measure that counts, i.e. having the most points at the end of the season. Tis a shame for Massa especially to think you've won and have it stolen away seconds later but that's the way the cookie crumbles.

Looks like it's time to think about sending my graphics card back. Nothing has worked so far. I'm gonna test it a little more, just to make sure, by giving to a friend who currently has on board graphics or something equally rubbish. I'll let him play some games with it for an evening or two and see what problems he gets.

Thanks for all the help and suggestions anyway. You certainly helped me come up with a lot of stuff to try, it's a shame it has all come to nothing so far but a broken card is a broken card. Unless it turns out that the card works fine in which case it's back to the drawing board.

I plan to be luckier next time I upgrade my computer!

Quote from george_tsiros :

as long as it is free you got to try everything.

if you have an option to try and you see that it is safe to try, there are four possible outcomes

you try it and it works
you try it but it doesn't work
you don't try it, but it would work
you don't try it, but it wouldn't work

as you see, the only way you can reach a solution is if you try every option (that is safe)

addition: also: what i posted was not meant to tell ou to change the aperture size and simply, only, that. you got to google for stuff. i found out that there are people who (from what i understand from here and there) have similar problems with this combination.

I've already tried it and it hasn't worked. I've also done a lot of googling on the matter and never turned that up! I have, however, found something else to try.

I had my memory in the yellow sockets because they were labelled 1 and they were yellow and were, therefore, much more inviting. Apparently it's better to have then in the black sockets if you only have 2 modules. Haven't had a crash so far after trying that but I haven't got a lot playing in either. If this doesn't work then I'll be looking to send the card back next week!

Quote from george_tsiros :

it just occured to me

we haven't thought if the mobo is playing nice with the card.

from a quick google, seems lots of people have issues with the combination.

hope i am not doing something wrong.

pasted from google search:

go to the BIOS, Advanced, Chipset, SLI Brodcast Aperature, set it to auto

I'm not running SLI, in case I gave that impression, so I'm not sure how this could help. I'm willing to give it a try anyway because its less hassle than RMAing the card!

Ok, better PSU has not solved the problem. I tried a PSU that gave me pretty much a steady 12.03 volts and provided enough amps for the graphics card (the card requires a minimum of 26 this PSU says 41 is it's max load.

I'm still getting the same problem though. Is it likely to be a graphics card fault? Could using a PSU that doesn't provide enough amps damage the graphics card?

I doubt very much I can find someone to borrow a suitable graphics card from so I can't easily test it that way.

Ok so I think it probably is my PSU. I checked out the specs and the graphics card says 26A on the 12V but my current PSU appears to be rated for 18A. For some reason I thought I'd checked that out already which was a bit noobish. I guess I'll have to try a better PSU and see if that helps.

Thanks for the helps.

Ok, I don't think my PSU is bad.

The +12v seems fine. The lowest I've seen it go is 11.65v and I had a crash when the 12v was at 11.84v. So it seem sunlikely that it's the PSU.

I haven't taken it apart to poke it and make sure everything is in firmly yet because I pretty much did that check before I turned it on first time. I'll have a check though.

After that I'm not sure what to do. I don't think of anyone who'd have appropriate bits they could just lend me even for a while. I'll have an ask around. After that I'm not sure what to do! I wish I could figure out what to type in to google to find someone else who has had a similar problem...

Can't think of anyone I could borrow a graphics card from off the top of my head. I might be able to find someone.

I'll try doing a stress test and disconnect all the components I can and see how that goes.

Quote from Jakg :

What brand is the PSU? What are the temperatures of the PC?

This is the PSU:

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/124922

It's a Compucase PSU. Not exactly the best brand I guess!

Just finished playing a game for a while (without a crash thankfully) and the CPU was at 36 celsius. Can't seem to find a temperature thingy in the nVidia control panel so I can't comment on graphics card temperatures. Are there any programs on the net for checking GC temps? I'll have a search for something.

EDIT:
http://www.compucase-hec.co.uk ... tic_power_500-600-700.htm

^ Details on the PSU from the manufacturers website itself.

Hiya.

I got myself a new system recently and I'm having a few teething issues. There seem to be some knowledgeable sorts around here so I thought I'd see if you could help me pin point what is going wrong.

The problem:
During games (has only happened in games so far) the screen will suddenly freeze and pixels will appear all over the graphics the sound loops and I have to restart my computer to get out of it. This happens at quite random intervals, I can get a good 5 or 6 hours of hard play in with no problems and sometimes it happens after an hour or so.

I've updated to all the latest drivers, BIOS and so forth and so far nothing has helped. My spec is:

Intel Q6600
Asus P5n-E SLI motherboard
BFG 9800 GT 512MB
Arctic Cooling 500W PSU
4GB Corsair XMS2
Running Vista Premium 64 bit

I once got a message relating to a second processor not receiving a message in the expected time interval (I forget the exact wording) from a BSOD but that only happened once. I'm wondering if the processor is bad but i'm also hoping that it is not!

Temps seem to be fine so I don't think overheating is a problem (I have 3 case fans so I'd be surprised if it was). I vaguely considered that the PSU might not be good enough but 500W seems like more than enough.

I've not had a problem quite like this before so I'm not sure what the main culprit is here and googling various things hasn't helped me so far.

Anyone got any ideas what might be up here? If you want to know any other details about my setup then please ask. It's getting quite frustrating so any help would be appreciated.

Quote from Töki (HUN) :

What about the overtaking in T1? Hamilton cut the last chicane. However he left Kimi go away, but he DID gain time with cutting and it was easy to overtake due to drafting...

If Hamilton didn't cut the track, he COULDN'T have taken Kimi over. That's a fact!

What happened at the chicane was not only 100% fair it was inevitable. As soon as the rain starting falling Hamilton had it in the bag. Ferrari doesn't tend to perform so well in the wet or on the hard tire. Hamilton is the best driver out there in the wet at the moment.

Kimi squeezed too hard and on contact Hamilton aborted the move and handed the position back straight away. If Raikonnen didn't force Hamilton off the track then Hamilton would have been past and gone anyway.

If anyone was at fault it was Kimi, though I don't think he did anything particularly wrong either.

Quote from JO53PHS :

Do you think that feeling of an evil presence is simply to do with the fact that in the 'paralysed state' you're unable to defend yourself if there really was something evil in the room?

Totally. I know there isn't an evil presence but when you're in that state you aren't thinking straight and you're sure as hell there is something there and it is out to get you and there is little you can do about. It's one of the scariest things I've ever experienced but as soon as you snap out of it all the fear melts away into nothingness.

Doesn't happen to often luckily. I went through it almost every night earlier on this year. Not sure why but it appears to be going now so I'm not too worried about it.

It's not really a nightmare but I sometimes get sleep paralysis. To simplify, it's when your head wakes up but your body doesn't.

The first two times it happened I was I woke up lying flat on my back completely unable to move (well I could wiggle a little). This was disconcerting enough, but it was accompanied with a very intense sensation that someone or something was in my bedroom and they had very evil intent and I felt as though there was a great weight pressing down on me. So I was lying there thinking to my self, 'Oh shit...there's something there!', but I had no idea what. I just 'knew' it was something evil and I had to get up and confront it. The trouble was I wasn't able to move. So I lay there flicking my eyes around the room looking for whatever it was. After what seemed like hours I said to myself, 'Ok, Tom. Count to 10 and sit up'. I counted to 10 and used all my might and forced myself to sit up. As soon as I was sitting up in bed I felt absolutely fine and a little bit confused.

It wasn't until it happened a few more times that I wondered what it was and found out about sleep paralysis. It's bloody weird.

It happened to me again this Monday. As I was falling asleep I noticed that slightly too familiar feeling that something was wrong. I was sort of lying on my front and got the feeling of evil presence. I then felt as though something (it strangely enough felt like a large cat or dog) got up onto my bed. I can only describe it as a physical hallucination. I felt the weight shifting around on my bed and it worried the crap out of me. Luckily I snapped out of it pretty quick. The bugger was it happened again a few minutes later as I started dosing off again. That really messed with my nights sleep.

Other times I have hallucinated while it happens. I once saw a 'monster' on the end of my ape. Like a fat hairy ape/human creature with a weird brown head. In this case it wasn't very scary because the monster seemed rather pathetic (it was wheezing heavily). Another time I saw a young chil standing at the end of my bed staring at me in a very demonic fashion. That was quite offputting. So much so that I attempted to kick the child away but could only manage a slight leg movement which luckily was enough to wake me up and snap out of it.

Sometimes sleep paralysis is entertaining but a lot of the time when it happens it is extremely scary. Until you snap out of it. Then suddenly you feel normal again and a little silly for getting so worked up about it.

The odd thing is that it only really started happening over the last few years. Last Monday was the first time it happened in ages so I expect I'm getting over it now! Woop woop!

Quote from CSU1 :

I think if you just delete the config file LFS creates a new one on next startup but don't do that as im not 100% sure as i havent been around the sim in a while.

If someone else here could confirm the above is safe to do???

It may be a simple case of reinstalling any applications or software to accommodate your new hardware, LFS does not 'install' itself on a system but just creates a config file to store info on hardware etc...hope it helps some.

You can just cut and paste it elsewhere and see what happens. I imagine the worst thing that could happen is LFS doesn't start. In which case just copy it back.

Quote from george_tsiros :

you can drink booze to lessen the effect as well.
but not too much 'cause you can't aim well.

the masks, did they find them at cordon? where?

Anti radiation drugs are potassium iodate (maybe iodide? not sure). They are meant to flood your thyroid gland with iodine because it is particularly vulnerable to radiation or something like that. They also make you chuck up a hell of a lot so I'm told.

I work in the nuclear industry ya see. Thing is though, whenever we do pretend nuclear emergencies at work the potassium iodate tablets seem to be a lot like Smarties or Fruit Pastilles. I've often wondered how fun it would be to be given proper potassium iodate for pretend emergencies. Probably not very, unless you have some sort of crazy puke fetish. Which I don't. To be honest I would worry more about all those people puking than I would impending radiation death.

Best stick to the Smarties I think.

Quote from mookie427 :

and I reckon that'll be the final result of the investigation, an engine going tits-up that's attached to the body of the plane really can't be very good

I agree, time will tell though.

Was just reading a bit more about this in the net. The MD80 family of planes (or maybe just the MD80, I'm not sure) have had 9 fatal incidents out of 20 million flights. Second safest in the world or something similar. 9/20,000,000 is pretty damn good.

When it goes wrong on a plane it often involves a lot of people which gives some people the impression that it is unsafe when really it is not.

Quote from JJ72 :

sustain flight when you have altitude and speed, yes. But take off, no.

engine failure is a bit different from engine blowing up as well, if an engine simply fails (stop working) it's still fine, but if it blows up it upsets the whole aerodynamics of the plane and it's a lot more complicated

Twin engined planes are designed to be able to take off on the loss of one engine. Not just to sustain flight, that's the impression I'm given anyways.

Mookie: If the pilot tried to ditch it then he wasn't following standard procedures. Once you get past the point of no return a full take off MUST be attempted. It comes down to damage from the explosion causing the plane to be unable to fly or the pilot panicing when the engine went up and making a mistake.

As has been said, what happened will be revealed by crash investigators, hopefuly. I was just making a guess.

19 survivors out of 172 at the moment. RIP.

Quote from chanoman315 :

Hockquan, yes every airplane with 2 engines can maintain flight, but an explosion on a MD is fatal, because it's not in the wing, it's on the body of the plane...

Engine explosion is not always fatal in an MD 80:

http://www.iac52.org/safetywise/june2001.html

My main point was that engine fire/failure on takeoff does not necessarily result in a crash and concluded that the explosion that was heard probably resulted in some other damage that led to the crash rather than the engine fire itself.

RIP to those involved. Horrible way to go.

The most worrying thing in my mind is that the plane crashed on its second takeoff attempt. An earlier takeoff attempt was aborted due to technical issues. Of course the two things might not be at all related but I imagine a lot of questions are going to be asked regarding the aborted takeoff.

I watched a few bits about this on the news earlier and it was said that it is a legal requirement that a plane such as this is able to sustain flight with a single engine failure. Engine failure at takeoff is probably one of the worst times for it to happen but I would think that something other than engine fire/failure must be the cause here, or, to be more exact, subsequent damage caused by the engine failure (there were reports of an explosion prior to the crash itself) brought the plane down rather than engine failure itself. I'm no expert and this is pure conjecture.

Anyway, i don't particularly wish to get into a discussion about such a sad event. Just a few things I felt like saying.

Once again, rest in peace.

I only clicked on this post because I thought it would involve the dragging of trees. Turns out it was an English lesson...

Quote from thisnameistaken :

Fair point, but it's that or this, you choose.

Danica in! Nelson out!

That is all I have to say on the matter. Well, that and I'm convinced that a random person off the street could beat Piquet anytime, anywhere. Probably not but he is atrociously bad and far worse looking than Danica.

In all seriousness though I'd rather only people who were really good were let into F1 as that's supposed to be how it works. I'm not sure she makes the grade but maybe she'll surprise us?!

I think it's a fine idea myself. Hardware varies a lot and I don't see why it would matter if there was an option to allow a virtual steering wheel match the actions of a real steering wheel. It's such a small cosmetic change that would be easy to implement and I am not sure that I can see a reason why it should not happen.

I'm not bothered by it not matching up to my real wheel myself (which has 270 degrees of rotation I think) but I would like it ever so slightly better if it did.

+1

Quote from AstroBoy :

Is there a link to the crash?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy5I65o7gg8


Racing incident, as far as I can tell. Hunter-Reay had enough room but only just enough and it didn't quite work out. Andretti should have probably given him a little more room but there you go.