Honda_Boy

Well, now that it seems I have got my new laptop sold finally (yes NEW), I'm looking to get yet another one. This time however, I'm saving a few extra $$$ to spend on a higher end model. I'm looking for something that can meet these requirements. 1. Play at least HD H.264 video at 720p (.mvk and .mp4 format) using the Haali Media Splitter in Zoom Player (in other words, using the Combined Community Codec Pack). My recent experience with a Mobile Athlon X2 QL-62, 2GB of RAM, and a GeForce 8200M has told me to go Intel this time around since apparently it could NOT handle this task despite the f

They are all alright. I'd go Corsair XMS2 though. I have this in my rig but it's slower timings. Doesn't bother me a bit though. Not noticeable enough to justify spending more on the other memory in my personal opinion.

Holy crap, for fun? Fun for me is some good anime and first person shooter, then takin the car out for some "spirited" driving.

Well, i searched on Honda-Tech and found a recent posting with someone having the exact same problem out of a D16Y7 (1.6L SOHC non-VTEC, the engine that my car originally came with). I posted in it explaining that mine was a completely different engine doing the same thing and I posted the video of my B16A2 doing it (the OP also had vids of his D16 doing it). So far the responses have been mostly things that my boss and I had theorized.

Wow, MIT! Geez way to make me feel dumb. I go to a community college But hey, I'm not majoring in tech crap though (anymore that is). Gots me A's in Digital Graphic Arts and Social Problems and B's in Psychology and Networking I. Dumping the CIS major for something more along the lines of either, Mass Comm, Psychology, Sociology, or Art with an emphasis in Digital Graphic Arts. Not sure what yet. Hope you aren't majoring in Theoretical Physics. (It's a Half-Life joke for those of you that don't get it)

I would have no clue if it's throwing a CEL code for something cause my CEL has been blazing from the day I bought the car cause of a Code 91 for a nonexistent FTP Sensor that 96-00 Hatchbacks lacked but 99-00 Si's had (motor/transmission/ECU is out of a 99 Si). I'd need a diagnostic tool to find out most likely. My car is gonna take a trip to Jimmy's Automotive (Honda Specialist) after Christmas any way. Gonna save up some money, buy any parts I know I need, do what I can and let Jimmy finish the rest.

Well even after new gas, it's doing it again and it's spread to idle now. It does real mildly at idle then opening the throttle a little makes it worse until you go past a certain point then it revs fine. My boss and I were looking at it yesterday and his theory is something is wrong in the ignition. I think it's something wrong with the fuel delivery or the throttle. I think either a dirty fuel filter, clogged fuel line, dirty injectors, TPS is messed up, idle valve is messed or something is up with the throttle body. My plan is to change the fuel filter and give the car a tune-up and hope it

Try sticking the drive in a freezer for a while and try it again. I did that when I had a drive failure and was able to recover all but 6 or 7 videos (out of hundreds that averaged 175MB or so a video).

Well that's what happened last time. It kept happening till the next fill-up. Plus it wasn't erratic idle. It was bouncing while slightly opening the throttle. In the video you will see me getting out of the car and slightly pressing the throttle from under the hood making it do that. The idle was fine. But now it's not doing anymore so I don't care. I just assume it's bad gas cause both times it's happened, I filled up stations I've never filled up at before and the problem disappeared the first time after I filled back up at a usual station and it appears the same has happened again.

Probably just crap gas. My engine isn't tuned really. Just at it's factory 10.4:1 (or is it 10.6:1?) compression ratio with an intake and exhaust.

Well, it only did the bouncing revs thing that one day. The next day I never went past 3rd gear trying to burn up that gas quicker. I was purposely doing jack rabbit starts and winding it out. I only did it one day but I certainly wasn't trying to save gas after that. I knocked my fuel mileage down from the typical 26-28 to 23 MPG. Filled it up with fresh Texaco Premium this time. That's what I did last time I had the bouncing revs. I'm sure filling up at my usual Shell would've been fine too but I figured I'd just repeat what I did last time.

Yeah no kiddin. Right now, I don't care too much cause it only cost $18 to fill my car up with premium today. That's less than when I was last filling my old car with regular over 2 years ago.

According to Top Gear (or more specifically James May), Hydrogen is the future of motoring. It makes sense since it is the most abundant element in the world. Note folks that Top Gear is a legitimate automotive show (from Britain) but it's also an entertainment (comedy) show as well so forgive some of the jokes in this cause overall it's a serious review (which is why James May is doing it and not Jeremy Clarkson or Richard Hammond). Also another note, in the same episode a Tesla electric sports car was also tested. That's what he was referring to.

VLC Media Player has a built in screen shot function. I've used it to take screen shots of different videos.

Not sure if anyone has mentioned it but I like to use Comodo Firewall. It's incredibly ANNOYING but it's just trying to protect your system. The newer version is less annoying than the old version I used to use but still can be a tad annoying. it's a good firewall and I'll continue to use it. And I also use a free CD burning program. I use CDBurnerXP. Despite it's name, it works in Vista as well (I use it on Vista x64). The only problem with it is it does not have support for burning DVD video. I burns Data DVD's though. A good CPU/Mobo/Chipset/RAM identifier that's good to put on a thumb driv

Most of the people that slid off the roads here were in Front Engine RWD cars. There's still snow on the ground here. I took pictures with my cell of what it looked like yesterday at around 11:30 AM and 3:45 PM and my parents took pictures with the digicam at times later than that I think. I just gotta get em and upload em.

Gettin in the Christmas mood!

Musta gotten some bad gas again. On my way to work, my revs started to bounce around 1700 RPM's and it jerked real bad takin off at one point. Looks like I'm gonna be driving in lower gears until I get all that crap out of it and get the good stuff back in it. Last time it happened, I filled up at an Exxon. This time it was at a Shell but not one I had ever filled up at before. Usually I either go to the shell outside my neighborhood or I go to Texaco. Last time this problem happened, I put in Texaco and the problem disappeared. Here's a video I took last time it happened:

And having said that: As of 6:30 or so after the friggin power came back on Yeah, it came a flash snow storm causing many to slide off the roads, many wrecks, and me to leave my car at work and ride home with the manager who has a 4WD Jeep. It snowed for good 2 hours HARD. Usually if there's even a hint of snow, road crews have already salted the roads but this was entirely unexpected.

Weird. We've only had just a tiny bit of flurries a week or 2 ago. Right now it's a light (but cold) rain.

I wouldn't knock consumer models. My older Compaq has been slung around and had the crap knocked out of it, and it still runs like a champ. I broke the LCD by dropping a the metal side panel off a tower on it (corner hit it I think) so I think that'd take out the LCD on any laptop. After replacing the the LCD though, it's still chuggin along. And why do you want the little stick mouse. I used to think they were better but really, touch pads to me are the way to go once you get used to them. Plus they can click by just tapping the pad.

I recommend you buy my laptop for $500 Nah. I've been trying to get rid of my new one (yes the NEW one) cause it disappointed me some and some other little things. Couldn't decode HD 720p H.264 video using CCCP codecs quickly enough to play video correctly (lagging video), hour and a half battery life, MS Office 2007 Ultimate couldn't be activated (my license limits me to one desktop and one laptop and it was already registered to the old laptop), and the gloss exterior annoyed the living crap outta me (fingerprints EVERYWHERE). I've liked my HP/Compaq's just not the newest one. It's biggest

Been a while since I've updated. The clutch pressure problem disappeared ages ago. Guess I didn't bleed it right or something but it's perfect now. Recently, my car hasn't been warming up while moving (in this cold weather temps 40 F and less). I could leave it idleing for about 15-20 minutes and it'd warm up but once I got moving the temp would plummet. The temp gauge would drop below the C mark. Now this meant I would FREEZE MY @$$ OFF while driving most places cause the heat wouldn't get going right. While talking to my dad I realized it was thermostat cause my 1985 Pontiac Sunbird had the

I would freak the %&*$ out if I was up on that.

I spent money on myself and didn't feel guilty but regretted the heck out of it. Dropped $633 a new laptop (a crapload for me) and DESPISED it. I despised it so much I spent $100 to fix my old laptop and went back to it. Now I can't get anyone to buy it on TennSpeed for $500.