B16Enk

Yes you need some thermal paste, and some thermal paste cleaner (to clean the heatsink). Paste: http://overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.p ... &subcat=27 Cleaner: http://overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.p ... &subcat=27 When heatsink is clean apply arctic silver paste thinly to CPU upper face. You are aiming to cover it completely as thinly as possible - it is only to fill the microscopic anomalies and will act as a thermal barrier if applied too thickly.

Hmm lag etc. Painless has the same ISP as me. I'm on a 10Mb/512k connection currently getting this: If it wasn't for the fact they charge stupid per minute rates for faults I'd give them a ring and see what's going on..

**work in progress we are still transcribing his hand written notes** This time it's from a Leroy Kuest, ground crewman for B17s in Suffolk 1942-1945. http://www.honorourveterans.com/article ... -1945.html His diary covers from his enlistment to his return home in 1945. A fascinating insight, dryly written with his thoughts on the UK, the 'fellows' he worked with and visits from the likes of Captain Clark Gable, meeting one Bob Crosby after 'crashing the gate' whilst confined to barracks. An extract: September 9th. 21 planes went out with one hundred and forty four 20 LB fragmentation bombs. Our new ship 989 went on it's first misssion LT Haskins is our new pilot. Air field at Le Bruget was the target. September 11th. Today was our first crash at this field. A Marauder B-26 came in to land, overshot the field, banked sharply went into a crazy spin and crashed. All 6 fellows were killed. September 15th. 21 planes with twelve 500LB. Target was a ballbearing factory near Paris. Ships returned after dark. it's a real sight seeing the ships return. At first you can see the red flashing lights twinkle as they pass through the clouds and then you hear the roar. After they get above you it looks like a Christmas tree lit up witha ll the different coloured lights on them. When they land they use their landing lights which as a rule light up the whole field. Lt. Haskins brought ours back with 2 fuel tanks empty. September 16th. 21 planes left with ten 500LB and wing tips filled with gas. They returned at 10:30 pm. Target was aircraft factory and rubber plant at Bordeaux. September 17th. Worked all day repairing damage which had occured on the last two raids, which were so close together that they hardly gave us time to get the ships in shape. September 21st. Mission went out, 21 ships twelve 500 LB returned with bombs, weather was overcast. September 24th. Mission of 24 planes took off with twelve 500LB. September 25th. Mac and myself went to London on our 48 hour pass. Waether was nice and we took a lot of pictures. We went on a tour of London Tower Castle. It was built about 1050 by William the Conqueror. The white stone with which it was built was brought from France. We also seen the only portion of the Roman wall that is left. We also seen many coats of Armor also the chaple in the center tower where all the knights were made knights. Also we seen some of the velvet robes that have been used in the kings coronations. Also seen the scaffold where many kings and queens were beheaded. On our way back we ran into sgt. D. Avitt who has returned from France through the underground (passed away 25th February 1978) he is the only one who has returned from Major Saltsman's crew. Maj Saltsman is a POW also was hit in the arm and burnt on the face. Our plane returned on the first night raid with number 1 and feeder tank empty. Lt. Haskins is now flying our ship. September 26th. Mission went out today with two 1000 LB in external racks and twelve 500LB also 100 Gals extra fuel in outer wing tanks. Ours returned in good shape. Now it has 5 misssions on it. It has been named "Marge H" after Lt. Haskins wife. September 27th. Today 21 went out with twelve 500LB. Ours (989) and 888 failed to return. Lt. Haskins and Lt. Lanfried (?) are pilots. They were last seen slipping out of the formation into a cloud bank with number 3 engine smoking. They had been hit by a lone fighter. She really had a swell crew and everyone had a long face when they failed to return. Latest rumors are that they went down on the coast of England. That sounds good to us I hope it's true. September 28th. Nothing more has been heard about our crew as yet. Last night some english Sterlings and Halifaxes which couldn't find their way home because of rain and fog landed at our base. She survived them and had an awful time finding the places for everything. They look like big clumsy box fans or as Mac says a big dog sitting down on his ass! They were supposed to have been followed back by German planes which dropped butterfly bombs. so far we haven't found any.

LOL Andy, so I'm not alone Sorry I missed you @ Duxford .

Up and running again, had to fix my Vista boot first, so I could then fix Vista not seeing an nVidia JBOD raid, so I could copy the disc image to a non-raid volume, so I could restore the windows folder. And then get the Vista Boot process to again recognise my XP and server 2003 installs as boot options.... 2hr 17 minutes STILL LEFT to finish the Symantec download....grrrr... Now that was a waste of a day

I know, not news at all! But I need to rant Quazi has been experiencing odd lockups, and noted his audigy and vid card were sharing an IRQ. There is a way to make XP allow manual IRQ assignment and I attempted this. Rendered my system un bootable. Didn't faze me too much as I use Norton Ghost 2007 (V12) and 'knew' restoring should be a snap. Then I discovered the recovery CD ISO zip was corrupt... I hadn't purchased the extended download service and it had expired 3 days ago So I entered into a chat with two technicians in the Indian call centre, asking quite simply if I could buy the extended download service retrospectively. Simple yes? Err...no. 53 minutes it took to get across that: a. the zip file containing the ISO image was corrupt. b. it was only the recovery CD ISO image I was interested in. c. the zip file was corrupt, confirmed by using WinRAR when I was told that was the only program that would open a zip file. d. buying the extended download service for Serif Page Plus 9 did indeed mean I was buying Page Plus 9 and didn't entitle me to download the ISO. When the second tech finally grasped that I really really really did want only the recovery ISO, he gave me a link and user/password combo. The download was throttled @ 10K and was going to take upwards of 8 hours to complete....and so far the server has reset once after 3 hours download...meaning start from scratch again! I finally found a torrent and got it in under 30 mins, complete with a crack. Symantec suck big time. Here is the transcript:

I enjoyed that

Some of you may have noticed a new forum member: IV/JG7_4Shades This nice chap is one of the creators of SEOW I know you would all like to line up and offer thanks, he is very busy working on the next release so won't have much time to spend here. ~S~ to the guys that have laboured long and hard on the SEOW, what a great creation that has brought pleasure to so many.

Hmm...was that in training missions only. Or are we sharing a dream? Either way it is no longer possible.

Oops. So my joystick wasn't enough? I think I've heard that before .

..if this is the cause of IL2 suddenly dropping to desktop, as though the windows key has been pressed.. Found while looking into a known slowdown issue caused by IE7:

Nice tip m8, I get on OK with my vector clip having mounted my TiR quite high. I keep looking at the TiR 4 though...mmmm..must earn some more £££

There is a petition running, consensus is that it is to raise awareness of the endeavours of The Few, UK residents (and Ex-pats) can sign it here: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/BattleofBrit ... eofbritain From a Ubi post here: http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/ ... 041375/p/1

Here's another funny vid..totally OT though. KissingTest.wmv

How far into the boot process does it go Colin? Does it crash the same in command prompt safe mode too? Dave, that floppy sounds interesting, not come across a means to run chkdsk off floppy, can I have a copy please?

Hi m8, I can avail you of an XP iso image if needs be, with serial. You can change the serial afterwards if required too,

Congrats FlatSpinMan....I would start honing your boyfriend beating skills now, and get the collection of shrunken heads underway. She's cute

Wow...I must try that method on the ex-wife!

I think Tonar may have it right Klinger, HL is picking up the wrong executable. Do you have more than one folder with IL2 in it?

Seriously: the code for the geezer smiley is "bg"

Sorry I was so tardy with the photo. Generally I was too pissed when in front of the PC at home, or it was press ganged into running IL2 However I managed to upload the image from my phone whilst watching the 'the Few' video presentation at Hendon (a very well done and moving video it is too). Not long been back from dropping BG off at the airport, after having sat up until 4 am with DT, Painless and my wife putting the world to rights A fabulous weekend, in which friendships were re-affirmed, and a shame it is now over. I'll watch and wait for Friar-One to start the de-brief thread, and sort through my photos and videos .

BG, DT, Frior One, Painless, Guitarman and B16Enk reporting in

Dig your manual up, the CMOS reset may just be a case of unplugging mains lead, moving a jumper (usually found in close proximity to the CMOS Battery) from pins 1 & 2 to 2 & 3 for a few seconds, then putting it back on pins 1 & 2 and re - applying power. Some boards however require battery removal, and/or leaving the jumper on for a 30 minute period (on really awkward ones). My system is still a little suspect, this 2nd hand board will light up when power is applied. But won't jump into life for up to five minutes after the button has been pressed, a bit like me in the mornings except quicker!

BBC Weather forecast looking good too, for both days now: Full sun, 21/69 8 mph winds Weather.com says rain though....think I'll stick with the BBC version.