BigDaveZX

I lost 5 years of my life to Quake2 and Quake3! not touched a game since then. Been to many LANs though, always guaranteed a good time. Not got enough time nowadays but I would be tempted if I did! :)

I totally agree, I was into it for the first 10 episodes then it seemed to start getting drawn out. I just hope that they explain goings on from the first series in the third :)

Season 3 Starts on Oct 4th over in the states as far as i remember :nana2: I'm sure i've seen a season 3 preview floating around somewhere. Looks good :) Dave.

How long have you been driving for? I had only been driving for 22 months when I bought my 1990 Jap 300TT, nobody but Adrian Flux would touch me insurance wise and I paid through the nose for it, even on limited miles (couldnt get classic insurance), but as I already had the car so I had no choice. I was 27 at the time. I would dread to think what it would be for someone who is 18. Good luck! Dave

No problem, glad to help, i'm useless with cars so it makes a change :nana2: Give me a shout on MSN tomorrow if you get no joy, i'm sure I can dig out an old "backup" version of Win98 from somewhere if need be :cool: Dave.

If the Bios picks it up then the connection is fine. The boot sector might be corrupt which would stop you running the drive. If the drive has Win98 on it, use the win98 CD to boot off, boot with cd support and when it goes into setup press F3 (if I remember correctly) this should drop you back into a DOS shell. You should from there be able to check the drive to see if the data is still there.

If you have bent the pins slightly then there shouldnt be a reason why you cant push them back out, should be pretty easy on a laptop harddrive. You would'nt be able to push the tray the whole way in if the connections were not aligned. If the tray is going back in plush then I cant see why its not making connection unless you've scared the pins back into the PCB? :D POST just means Power on self test. If you need to borrow a drive for testing gimmie a shout and I will see what I can do. Dave.

Best way to check out the laptop drive is use a 3.5" ide to 2.5" convertor and plug it into your main machine as a secondary drive, at least then you can test its connectivity and health, you can always run the Hitachi OGT diag tool if need be. A damn site easier to see whats going on. Laptops are a pain in the arse. have you tried booting the laptop without the drive present? It should POST then complain about missing drive and give you boot options? If its failing POST and hanging it might be something else, I would try without the drive first. I seem to have a 60gb and 80gb lappy drives hanging about, could probably find smaller if need be :nana2: Hope some of that helps! Dave.

Depends on what your after, i've got some lying around here somewhere (not literally, there manufactures refurbs) Will take a look.

All 2.5" laptop drives have the same connections as far as I remember

I was told when I bought the car that it was BMW M3 Yellow, not sure of the product name.

You certainly get noticed :dance:

My car is BMW yellow.

long live the hoff!

Heading out of Newport east bound down the M4 by J24 at around 18.45

I'm the same as Darkside TT, I also have an Auto TT , still interested in the hoses though! Dave.

I agree with Wozzer, Yellow inner with black outer looks the dogs nuts!

BMW M3 yellow as far as I remember.

I think mines Yellow!

This is a great site for anything to do with video encoding! http://www.videohelp.com/

I wondered where my car was !!

Saw it at 8.30am, I was travelling the other way towards Wiltshire!

Cheers for your help fellas, I will get my Car booked in for that little bit of TLC that it requires! Will hopefully see a few of you in the Newport area! Dave.

Hey Folks, I noticed after a little reading that there are a few People on this Forum from the Newport area of South Wales, I was just wondering if someone can point me in the direction of a decent garage so i can get me Zed checked over. I am new to the world of the Zed and only purchased mine a month ago, not long after purchasing it one of the RAD pipes went and there was alot of water and alot of steam, from what I can see (800 miles later) there doesnt appear to be any lasting damage but i still would like to be on the safe side. Mine was the bright yellow 300 at the back of the zx parking at JAE on the Sunday! hope someone can help! Cheers, Dave.