Literally the only reason is so that my parents don't start shouting at me from driving 70 on a motorway instead of 50 even though its legally allowed in the highway code. Would this fail MOT?
So I finally got a working windows CE laptop (I had a wm8650 netbook before but it powers on and shows nothing on the screen, if anyone knows how to fix that lmk).
However it has a password on it and is stuck on the screen. There is a bios menu that lets you erase 3 storage options (NAND, Flash2 and XIP) but I don't want to brick it. Tried looking for a firmware and this manufacturer doesn't offer downloads for some reason.
Anyone have an idea on how to remove/bypass the password?
The model is a Disgo Netbrowser 3000 running Windows CE 5 and has the AK7802 processor
So I have a MK3 Renault Clio which originally has 4 coaxial speakers. The car could have been specced with tweeters but on mine they are just dummy components and instead there are front coaxials. The connectors are there though so I got a pioneer TS-G130C component set, would I be able to just use the OEM tweeter connections with no crossover box?
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This is on the stock radio setup, only upgrades I am doing is the front and rear speakers (rear would be a Pioneer TS-G1320F)
Somehow got this thing running games (not very well though due to the crappy PowerVR GMA graphics) Also overclocked to 2.2GHz with SetFSB
Model: VGN-P35GK
Clio 1.2 TCe dynamique, cost me a whopping £750 great British pounds. Only mod i did so far was retrofit tomtom and delete bov for turbo flutter. And its red.
Got this insane deal a while back for just £35. Unfortunately fucking buyee damaged it in shipping so it has broken hinges (on the palmrest side) :( Hopefully I can get it restored soon, so far it runs windows 11 great with the quad core i7.
Found this old PC as well as a newer dell (Inspiron 620) in a friend's house, this one had been sitting outside for presumably a number of years inside the Dell PCs box (hence the cardboard on the side panel). Did some heavy clean up and it fired up, only issue is the motherboard needs recapping as usual with hardware of this time so its unstable. And the PSU probably needs replacing/recapping as well as I saw a bulged cap while cleaning.
Specs:
AMD Sempron 2000+
Gigabyte 7VT600P-RZ motherboard
ATI Radeon 9250 128MB AGP
512MB RAM (I had some spare sticks so upgraded it to 1GB)
80GB HDD
DVD-ROM drive
Floppy drive
Presumably this was built around 2005 ish judging by the manufacture date on the DVD drive, probably going to use this as a Windows 98 build. And it's my first retro desktop (I have had tons of laptops but never a desktop this old)
I've seen this a lot on autotrader lately, dealers are selling cars as "auctions" which I'm assuming is the latest way to get around the consumer rights act. BINCA is probably the most well known one as they have a YT channel called calvin's car diary. Personally I think its dodgy as hell.
Here's some examples
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202605142389952
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202605142391357
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202604181661364
And if you want to take a browse:
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-search?channel=cars&keywords=auction&make=&sort=relevance&page=4
I need to retrofit cruise control and the steering wheel is peeling so I'll have to rewrap it anyway, for some reason the megane steering wheels are way cheaper than the clio steering wheels. Will it fit and will the cruise control buttons work?
Took me a while but finally managed to retrofit tomtom on a Clio MK3, it was the only option missing that I wanted. However the unit won't detect the SD card for some reason, its an original Renault card and works fine on a computer, just not on the screen.
Used to come up with a do not remove SD message but it doesn't show up anymore, I've also tried reseating the flex cable for the sd reader and it didn't fix it.
Other than that the radio works fine
Says a lot about the car market at the moment IMO. First it was the Japanese in the 70s-80s, then Korean in the 90s-2000s, now its the Chinese.