Sid

lol, great memories

Okaaaay, a bit of movement! Asus can't supply a Striker Extreme mobo due to their age (how long does it take to sort that out - surely less than a week!) so the builders are going to look at their mobo stock and speak to me tomorrow morning about spec. So long as it is as near to the Asus and everything can be SLI'd I don't mind - might even get some money back apparently.... The rig will then be rebuilt and shipped tomorrow

Latest update.... The builders should have a replacement mobo by early next week..I am being very patient and have resisted the temptation to get them to fit a different board in lieu of the busted one. I paid for extra warranty so it seems a bit pointless to fork out a large sum twice. See what happens next week. I'm off work so hopefully will have something to occupy my time later on...once I've deciphered all the threads re. installing what

Decided to go with the flow and have gone with a replacement mobo from Asus. Similar boards to mine have since been upgraded so don't show the fault that mine produced. Awaiting email that says it's done and can get it home for additional work... I bought 2 WD 500gb SATA 2 7200rpm hard drives thinking that my Raptor was naff so I have some options now. Going SLI with the 2 8800GTXs effectively takes out one of the 3 drive bays as one of the video cards invades it's space so the choice is either 2 x 500gb or 1 x 160gb Raptor (original) plus 1 x 500gb 7200rpm. I intend keeping it SLI so would look towards partitioning the Raptor into three and put the OS on one partition, IL2 on another and keep the third free. The other hard drive would be unpartitioned and used for backup and storage. Sounds good to me, but I'm not actually spending time flying. This break has given me time to sup whisky and think about the intricasies of what actually allows me to fly instead of thinking about important things like getting enough lead on the deflection shot that is going to rip a wing off Sweper's/Painless's/Akula's/Friar's/whosoever's aeroplane.......do I sound as if I'm suffering? Cheerzen Sidley

I've been following this and can't wait to get back up and running..I've got a 22" widescreen and I feel that this looks to be a real immersion enhancer

None taken GK Sharrum..rashum..fashum..Rick Rastardley.... Cheers Jabo, I look forward to the day.... Cheers also, Brando

Update on my pooter... The fault lies within the mobo, an almost 2 year old Asus 680i Striker Extreme. Apparently this is good going for this board as it should have gone kaput within 3 months if it was going to do it.... It is likely that it will be replaced by a similar board but this depends on whether Asus have one of the updated spec that cleared the issue that crashed mine. This route will get my pooter back to me by the end of...next week

A TREE......oh sorry, obviously not

Spectacular Swep

~S~ Psycho, can't wait to hear the mad cackle again

The computer builders accepted the return under warranty, it's with them now so just a case of waiting. I can log in to my account and look for comments on the return, maybe tomorrow...? NB. I get through just as much whisky whether I'm flying or not Jim....ah, that reminds me, I went on a resettlement course (I can retire next year) provided by the Fire Service and the health guru they brought on says that, in the USA, the alcohol intake for men and women is now 28 units (half a pint of beer or 1 whisky shot) for men a week and 21 for women. Now, in the UK that means an increase from 21 and 14 respectively and we are bound to adopt the revised figures...some sooner rather than later

Not sure, but the builders try for a quick turnaround. Not too long I hope.

Dagnabit

Looks like at least 2 installs necessary for a period...4.08 modded for 'Pedestal' and an official 4.09 for modding when approved package becomes available.

Perfect timing, can do a fresh install this weekend!!

No can do...... Won't boot up at all now. Goes through the bios screens etc. then I get a very quick blue screen with words on (too quick to see) before it goes into reboot. I did the F8 and have got into the boot sequence and got it to boot from the XP disc and have tried both repair and reinstallation. Last time I tried it didn't recognise the hard drive and when I press enter to get the repair to go on all I get is the black flickery screen with the flashing cursor up in top left hand corner.... Duff hard drive?

Had an issue yesterday where the computer booted but didn't show anything on the monitor. It beeped a few times before settling down and after a few minutes I got very choppy and crappy graphics at a resolution that definately was not mine. I assumed it was the Nvidia 8800GTX graphics card that I had installed in the build nearly 2 years ago. I did a swap with the reconditioned 8800GTX I bought a few months back and it booted up fine although the system is slower in boot up by about 10 seconds. I'm glad I got the spare when I did and I can live with the extra boot up time. All considered it was a smooth rescue but took me out of Pedestal

Flippin' eck, I remember like yesterday you putting up a similar post a year ago (for the first anniversary, obviously).......congrats mate. Sid

Good man...... Not enough swagger though plenty of cursing and muttering I imagine.

An attempt at showing what Friar and I got up to during the airfield attack on Sunday evening.... Good fun, Fraps didn't record all of the ntrak, just 4 gigs of it!!!! Cheerzen Sid

Battle of Britain flying...sort of. Evocative sharing of a flight made by a Spitfire and helicopter here I love this area of the country because of what happened here in 1940. If you are in the area you must go here to the memorial. Beautiful, quiet, and very evocative.

Hurricanes perhaps? Did they have the Merlin growl?

No idea, I click on it and it takes me to the article in the Daily mail....