Quote from rc10racer :

Meh sounds like head banging goth music.

1) Headbanging is associated with the metal scene, not the goth scene.

2) NIN is damn good.

3) You smell like cheese.

TITS 'N ASS!

Double Bastard is beautifully magnificent beer.

I'll add a tangent question here to avoid making a new thread:

For some reason both of my burning programs say that this new drive is not capable of Disc-At-Once burning. My old burner did Disc-At-Once without issue.
The specs definitely say it's capable of DAO:

http://us.liteonit.com/us/inde ... &id=250&Itemid=67

Quote :

Support Fixed Packet, Variable Packet, TAO, SAO, DAO, Random Access Write, Incremental, sequential recording restricted overwrite, Layer Jump recording, Raw Mode Burning & Over-Burn

I've gone into the drive properties but there's nothing there. Anyone know how to enable this feature?

If it works, great; I'd never pay for server access though.

Nevermind, I figured it out. Turned out to be an ID-10-T error. :dunce:

I pulled the drive out to find a little jumper bridging two pins labeled "slave". I moved the jumper to the two labeled "master", put the drive back in, booted up and everything works perfectly.

Thanks for the help.

Why would the BIOS have a bug now but not two hours ago?

Last edited by Lateralus, Mon 29 Dec 2008, 23:27.

My old DVD writer stopped reading discs. I'd put a disc in, but it would never spin up.

I took a newer one out of another system to check to make sure it was the drive which was faulty. The new one worked fine.

I bought a new one so I could put the other good one back in the other system.

Now, however, neither of my DVD/CD drives are recognized by my computer at all. I've double-checked to make sure everything's plugged in correctly, but nothing at all shows up in Windows. In the BIOS, I have the following:

First IDE Master: Maxtor HDD
First IDE Slave: Not Installed
Second IDE Master: Seagate HDD
Second IDE Slave: Not Installed
Third IDE Master: Not Installed
Third IDE Slave: Not Installed
Fourth IDE Master: Not Installed
Fourth IDE Slave: Not Installed

My optical drivers normally showed up in the third IDE entries. If I go into Third IDE Slave and change the setting to "auto", it changes to "Third IDE Slave: S_NY". Still nothing in Windows. I restarted my PC and now it says "SONY" instead of "S_NY". Changing Third IDE Master doesn't do anything.

I have two optical drives connected: one Lite-On DVDRW drive (normally D: drive in Windows, model iHaP422-08 8), and one Sony CDRW drive (normally E: in Windows).

There's only one submenu in the BIOS which deals with optical drives at all and I've done everything I know to do in the relevant one.

When I put the other DVD writer in, I didn't have to mess with the BIOS at all; everything worked fine straight away.

I've checked that everything is plugged in correctly for a third time.

What could the problem be?

Quote from tristancliffe :

And we've seen that in a competitive car Button can go pretty quickly, but we've yet to see him in a world class car to know what he can really do (although I don't think he's champion material, but he's a notch above most of the drivers on the grid in my opinion).

Thank you. I don't understand when people rate him very poorly. He's proven time and time again that he's a very smooth fast driver, and he's sublime in the wet. His weakness seems to be that he struggles to get the most out of a bad car, which he's had for most of his career. So on that basis I'd agree that he's not quite WDC material.

AFAIK, it never has.

Quote from bandaid :

Pretty sure I read that somewhere.

You did.

Quote from tristancliffe :

Use V-Power for a month or two and compare your cost per mile (the bottom line) with 'cheap' fuels. Then you won't ever use cheap fuels again if you can possibly avoid it.

It's different fuel in the US though, isn't it? I heard the formulation is different in Europe. Here the octane ratings are 87, 89 and 93 with most cars designed for 87. Shell isn't really any more expensive than normal and their grades are the same as all the others.

Quote from DevilDare :

and thats why Ferrari should get help from FIA, nice...

Nobody said that.

Quote from SidiousX :

I'd warm her tires....

I agree with this statement.

It isn't anywhere near a 2009 car, and it's being driven by a very skilled professional racing driver. To drive on city streets in the wet in an F1 car is extremely tricky.

If it is possible to gain an advantage from ABS, it needs to be fixed. Z5 should become the official patch so everyone's running the same cars.

Is ABS an advantage while driving online?

Quote from JasonJ :

It's in the new test patch Z5 now. See the test patch forums.
Patch TEST Forum

How can patch Z5 be online compatible when it has added ABS for some cars?

Quote from The Very End :

Holy shit, if it had been the normal %number I would die by drinking that. Think of a box (24) of beers with 8.x% alcholol O_o

24?

I felt full after one of those. It's like a meal.

Founder's Brewing Company.

Double chocolate coffee oatmeal stout.

My new favorite beer.

Ever.

Quote from SamH :

A sorry is fine, whether keybind or typed, pretty or plain.

It's what you do about it that counts, though.

/thread

Quote from Mazz4200 :

Well, according to that quote, he's only quick and fast when the car with the most powerful engine does the driving for him.

Bullshit.

He's simply acknowledging the fact that a driver always wants more, better, and faster, and most drivers see any rule changes which take away anything which makes them faster to be a detriment. Surely you remember Kubica echoing this sentiment a few months ago.

And anyway, anyone who thinks that an F1 engine "can do the driving" for someone is a moron. It still requires an extremely impressive skill level to drag a car like the 2008 Renault to victory twice. Regardless of what you think of Alonso's character, his driving this year was superb.

No.

Your onboard graphics chip is simple not able to handle the load LFS is throwing at it. You need to reduce your settings.

What resolution are you running at? AA and AF? Reduce the quality settings in the ATI control panel and in LFS itself. Dynamic LOD Reduction is an important setting. It dynamically reduces the level of detail when your FPS drops in order to keep a more constant FPS. Maybe reduce the texture detail and the mipmapping. Play around with the settings in LFS to find the right balance between image quality and performance.

Buy a wheel.

It's possible to drive quickly with a mouse, but most people find it easier to be quicker with a wheel. And it's more fun.

Buy a wheel.