I have this sponsors url on my foot all day, I just can't shake it.

Your licenced now so you can look but for making skins go onto liveforspeed.net and download the cmx viewer will help you alot in making skins

Damn niko beat me to my own skin GRRRRR!!!! lol

It is a shame when things get in the way. Hope you still will post on here, this forum would not be the same without you random and confusing posts every now and again

Shane 'Shakey' Byrne tried his hand at racing car's but will forever been known as Shane 'Sizziling' Byrne now.

Quote from Albieg :

Just do updates manually one by one, write down the update number and test the system. Some updates are known to cause problems. You have to identify the one which is causing trouble and look for more information about it. MS Knowledge base may give you some clues.

I know, my comment was more in response to it being the PSU.

Thanks for all the comments and helpful hints in sorting my PC out Kudos to you all.

Time to get cracking on the updates.

Quote from imthebestracerthereis :

if he is an admin, they don't get kicked, other than that, he should have been kicked

That is what I thought but then I got kicked the other day for going the wrong way even though I was admin. If you slowly go backwards you can travel some distance but that is the only way I know of.

Quote from The Moose :

My brother's PC was suffering random lock-ups, freezes and reboots recently. sometimes was within a few minutes of booting up, sometimes it would run for a few days before doing it.
After trying everything else a new PSU was fitted....problem solved.


Not only does a 300w psu not sound enough these days, a cheap make 300w psu is asking for trouble.

It has run for 18 months with no problem. I have tested it as much as my knowledge allows me and haven't found anything majorly wrong so it seems very likely it is the Microsoft windows update is the problem. Why it causes my machine to freeze I am at a loss

Edit: Also after testing no update fine, as soon I update and restart pc freezes.

Hey look I can see my own shadow from here.

Well I don't know the gap between momo and dfp but between dfp and g25 the gap was around 4 or 5 years. Working it on that then a new wheel wont be around for a while. Also no one knows if the next wheel to come out will be a better one or just a normal one (eg 2 pedals less steering lock etc)

Finally g25 is a good wheel, few flaws but every wheel has them so I would say go for the g25

Nice find, will give it a read

Quote from rogokos :

Sorry chump, I don't hang out with uneducated street level "gangstas". You wouldn't know the difference anyway. Too immature, nothing but forum trolls and children that need to learn a lesson and get respect beaten into you.

Respect is earnt, respect is gained over time. You come on here with access to the full version of lfs while a demo racer. No matter what the reason is, whether your story is true or you have cracked lfs. It is disrespectful to the devs. You come on here and when you are questioned over your use of s2 content you swear and insult other forum members, again being disrespectful. So I believe it is you who needs "to learn a lesson and get respect beaten into you."
My comment was made in jest to the things that you have said. On a forum you can only be judged by your words not by your actions. You came on here acting all tough saying you don't care about prison etc. It may impress some people but the majority of people you will meet on these forums wont be. It is words and we can only judge you by them. It was also said in jest to try and lighten the mood. Final point is if you become a long time forum user then you need to have a sense of humour, which from your reaction you seem to lack one. There are many jokes passed around between members, just as mine was a joke on your post. Whether you take insult to it or shrug it off I don't care to be honest.

Last edited by Greboth, Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:16.

This is said with no law background so i may be wrong.

I would say yes it is is illegal to use andd reproduce a trademark logo on your skin(s), especially without permission. Saying this though as we are not asking for money and have no other finacial gain from it maybe changes things. If nothing else though it is free advertisement and AFAIK in all the years since lfs has had skins no one has been asked to remove a logo.

So yes, while maybe technically illegal it is very unlikely anyone will complain.

Edit: I really need to learn to spell.

My tip: If in doubt put a different colour dot on each bit and then look in cmx viewer

Quote from Dru :

2 + 2 = 4

Quote from (-Mark-) :

then you go on about some irellivent 'sh*t' about snitching and getting killed for doing so, and going to jail and such...

Cause he gangsta yo! gonna come drive by your mommas house n bust a cap in your ass foo' He aint no snitch n aint scared of no punk ass in jail neither.

All i got to really say is
:feedtroll

-1 for fuel limiting.

I would like to be ability to make it so tyres have to be changed. IMO this more reflects reality. In races where the cars can make the full race with no re-fuelling do sometimes not refuel but simply pit for new tyres.

The thing I hate about noob is he never talks on team speak

+1 for pre qualifying system with the promotion/relegation at the end of the season.

Nice, I like them. They all look good so far

I like the arrows skin alot, good work

Sorry for the long delays between replies, not always possible to get on my sisters laptop. Doing system restore and not updating windows seems to have fixed the lock up's but it was only temporary before so time to do what you have suggested, will reply later with the results.

Thanks again for all your help.

How long until that peugeot stops smiling?

Quote from Jakg :

300W PSU?

What brand is it?

Sounds like it could be that.

System Restore puts a lot of load on the HDD's, not the CPU - but if it happens in 30-60 secs loading a game wont really say if it's sped it up or not.

I'm a hardware geek and i'd blame the PSU, but the fact System Restore didn't make it keel over is.... suspicious.

Devil?

Yes 300W, as for who makes it I would guess Novatech as i bought the pc ready built from them and it doesn't have a brand logo on it. So either Novatech or some other generic one.
I did the system restore to go back to before the problem started to see if it got it working again which it did, not to test out hardware.
After talking to another friend who works in the pc field he suggested it could be a faulty driver update which automatically updated itself, which system restore rolled back to before it auto installed and then it automatically installed itself again causing the problem. Which he said would also explain why it runs in safe mode as it doesn't load all the drivers. No idea if this is plausible but anything is worth a try lol.

Quote from Albieg :

Generally those symptoms aren't related to software: it could be a failing power supply or (more often) a bad RAM module, even a mobo failure (I had this problem on a mobo with condensers leaking brownish stuff). If you're able to boot in safe mode, do some stress tests. Start with a torture test with Prime95, doing at least some cycles. This will test only your CPU and your RAM. If it fails doing it job and halts you could have some bad RAM. You can also try Memtest86, but sometimes it fails to discover some issues: but at least, if it shows some errors, you most likely have some faulty RAM, so you can test some other modules and see if they're fine. Prime95 is a bit more picky, but it cannot identify the problem, it just shows you have one (CPU? Mobo? RAM?). Then use some more general benchmarks that test your hardware. Use HDTune to test both health and performance of your hard disk. Check voltage stability of your power supply, if you can compare voltages with suggested values.
Generally, however, it is a good idea to test hardware without running the OS on your hard disk: prepare (or have someone prepare it for you) an UBCD for Windows, most diagnostic tests are already there: it's useful and not time consuming. The GPU is the only component that may need a test with your original OS.
On the software side, you could have some nasty rootkitted software. I can't tell you how to look for rootkits since it's a job that requires some OS knowledge, but anyway if you look for some anti-rootkits you'll find them on the net. You MUST know how to use them anyway, so I won't enter the discussion. My favourite one, however, is GMER. And, absolutely, ditch Task Manager in favour of Process Explorer, and get a serious antivirus. Symantec is evil. If you have some suspects about a single file, virusscan.jotti.org is what you need, but it's sometimes very busy, so you have to wait in line. Otherwise go for housecall.trendmicro.com or other online scans (like Panda) for a faster job.

I am busy today, but I will try those as soon as i can

Thanks for all your help so far guys

System specs
AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3000+
WinFast PX6200 TC GeForce 6200 TurboCache 128 MB
512 MB RAM
300 W PSU

Windows XP service pack 2.

To answer the hdd question previous, the hdd lights comes on but as soon as the pc has frozen/locked up its goes off.

As for something I am doing and the lock up, the lock up happens whatever I do or don't do. If i just turn my PC on, xp loads and the login screen appears, If i leave it it will lock up, If i or any other user logs in the lock up happens also. So it seems completely irrelevant of what is being done as the lock up happens within about 30 seconds - 1 minute everytime.
It could be getting too hot but, looking at this logically, I don't see it being the answer as the lock ups happened, after a system restore the pc ran for around 7 hours under varying load. Then the lock up's happened again, and happen after the same time. Also I have had it running in safe mode for a few hours with no problem either. I will have a look though for dust and clean the heatsink if dusty.

Quote from Jakg :

Freezes - Does it recover? Does the sound "loop"? Does the screen lockup or just go blank? Does the HDD light do *anything* while it's frozen?

If you happened to know whats your PSU?

No once my pc has frozen it doesn't recover. Never had any sound playing to know if it loops. The screen just locks up, whatever is on screen just freezes completely. I am pretty sure HDD light doesn't do anything when it is frozen. I can't check right now but I will find out when I can. I will also find out my PSU too. Although I have changed no hardware and the case hasn't been opened in a few weeks.

Also just incase it is important, watching my cpu usage it doesnt spike before the freeze, in fact it islow, with cpu usage being about 5%. Short of timing it with a stop watch the freezes happen at the same time everytime.