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check the wear tabs inside the grove of the tire. a small rised line inside the grove is the wear limit point. if the wear is even and the marks are lower then the top of the grove then look for side wall for damage and don't let them tell you the fine cracks are bad its nomal. If that all checks then keep driving. dry rot can happen after around five years but normaly will show other problems first. I get about 100,000 and six years to a set. pay around 950 to 1200 for 13 inch tire. cheap is good enough its not F1 or NASCAR out there.

I did mine in Phitsanulok it went about the same, no problem both car and bike.

I never have done it before to install a new XP Version - how do I proceed?

I have to mention, that I am using already a external USB-Keyboard, due to some Malfunctions in my

Laptop Keybord AND using an external DVD/CD-Player .....

With this external Hardware will it work out?

You may find it hard to do a back up to CD. Most HD are vary large and you may have alot of files to save. You say new version do you mean re install XP that came with PC or do you want to up grade to vista. plus not knowing your system usb keyboard could be problem, but if install repairs your standard keyboard then it will start working during the re build. Sounds like you better get a on site check out of what you have going on there before you end up deleting anything.

I have downloaded and tried about 26 distros of Live Linux and found one that is working realy well. Puppy Linux 2.17 with seamonkey. As I am new to Linux I needed a live CD type and a dristro that worked so I can spend time learning. I formated an old 6 gig drive in FAT 32 and have it connected via USB. I boot with the puppy cd and after the first shut down it now reads my setting off the USB drive during start up and I have a location for saving data. I was also able to build a vertual memory on the drive to extend the RAM during operation. After using the Linux I pull the cd out shut down and reboot into XP. It never mounts the HD in my laptop because it is NTFS so everything in that drive is safe. After I restart in XP I can get things off the USB drive in FAT32 if I want a copy of it. I found it is handy to manage disks in the XP and then switch back any time. I installed a Opera 9.0 package just for the learning and it went well so now I have a choice of browsers. I seem to have a bug with the Video player, but I think a codax pack is going to resolve it. Its been fun so far and look forward to more. Anyone thinking about Linux for the first time come on in the water is fine.

alot of networks like comcast in the US and others have a low tolerance for resolving where an eeail comes from and when in douht kick it out. Part of killing the spamers. I had a hard time with POP coming out of Thailand even when the POP account was in the US. Not ever ISP is on board with the header required and if you send direact out of your PC it maybe does not look good to the receiving servers. May have to POP to ensure the header has details the servers want to see.

Two years with windows and no crash. That has to be some kind of record. I don't know what you mean by errors would assume programs often hang up or freeze. things like that. Fresh install can clean everthing up, but your going to have alot of updates to do, and if your not doing back up and don't have a system for back ups you need to get that in order before you start. You need to know where and what programs you have and are they in a place that you can reloasd them from. Things can and do go wornge with complete rebuilds, but if you get orginzted first then it is just a matter of starting over nothing lost. If you have never done it before would be good to have a pal help anfd teach after that your good to go.PS about the clean up programs. Most assume alot because ever system is alittle differant. Thay don't do anything you can't do yourself but they are fast. Then again if you stay on top of house cleaning it never that much to do anyway. Full rebuild will teach you alot about your PC the system and get your back ups stright.

That is a good ref art. to keep around, but this start up problem with Hp and is interrmit does not get even to the BooT.ini it is in the CPU step with the chip set not a software problem. Because I have naver seen this but in an Hp or Compaq I would say design fault. I don't think even another new BIOS patch would fix it. I have been dealing with it for near two years. I am lucky to have a reset button, but even before I found that I could use the reset button with the power off. I could always try again agian and then it would start. I also have a small USB problem that is hardware related and replacing parts won't fix it. They just don't match up well. It s like the noise my truck makes that I can't find, but four years on it runs fine. I have rebuild the files and downloaded and flashed the best BIOS run ever test, had Hp do it all remotely as well. Hp gave up they don't know Nothing. still does it Sometimes. Really do suggest aviod hair lose and get a reset button installed. and I might note the year of production of his PC is the same as mine. I bet his is a remanufacture PC sold as new just like mine.

Yes- my question was stupid.

Wonder if it could be a power issue? Checking all the pins connections might be worthwhile?

no no not a stupit ? I should have used ?? mark after what I typed just making conversation. it's a good point things like that get overlooked.

I use the ToT 256/128 package at 1500Baht and always get the full speed in fasct with the downloader program I can avg 270 during a download. I don't know if I up graded to 1024 if I would get it or not, but planning on 512/256 up grade if that works out for awhile I may go again. Up grade only req. phone call.

I agree there are many better options, but my whole family back home is on the MSN platform and it makes it easy for me to just use it for video conf. with mom and stuff. I keep it shut down as much as possable. It will eat bandwidth if ya don't shut it off when not in use.

WARNING: If you do use MS products for this and email like hotmail make sure your Geo info is other then in thailand. It will determine where the ads it sends at you come from and the ads from Thailand server are full of hover buttons and other things that block your use of controls if you don't click the ad. Resent Cock pit tire sale ad was the worst of these lately. profile yourself as US or UK so you don't get the intrusive and disrpecful type ads.

I think he would have said something about the clock needing reset. It boots fine most the time noth wronge but BIOS init

Yea really sounds like the same thing it is not even getting to the start of the boot up. Sometimes the BOIS is crupted and sometimes it is OK that is when it goes into boot up. When I do the reset it is forced to re read the BIOS from the CMOS chip which it seems to try to save time and skip that if it thinks the BOIS is good. You said you were flashing the BIOS to get it to boot, But Flashing the BIOS means you would download a new BIOS program and burn it into the CMOS chip in order to upgarde or patch it which is a rare thing. BIOS is hardwired program in the CMOS chip EPROM in the old school. What I think you are doing is a reset but purhaps you have no ext reset button like I have on the under side of my lap top. I don't think you have a ser. problem just the same Hp hang up that I have had for several years. Maybe easyest to hard wire the pins you have been jumping to a reset button. then you can just push it before you hit the power button and naver see the problem again.

Getting stright to the point. Tax payer gets a brake. This is done all over the world not just in Thailand.

exp. The Zoo in Tacoma, Washington USA cost $36.00 day pass. Show ID with local address and you get a free day pass. The park and Zoo are funded with tax dollars, your tax dollars. If you don't live in town you get your chance to donate at the gate. This is what is done in many places around Thailand. Please report privete business that do it, That is braking the law.

i can boot up...i'm using the beast now...

its just that "sometimes " it will not boot and just hangs until i flash the CMOS.

even "sometimes" is a pain as the 'puter is important to me...

the partition is OEM setup..bought from IT city pantip..she was fresh outa the box.....i checked...

i understand the disc is partitioned....the D partition has nothing on it..double click and it shows nothing...properties shows 65 MB used out of 37 GB...hmmmm..

thanks...

Wher does it hang at the power light? or do you get any drive active first.

I may have missed something back at the start did he say that the CD went active and is hanging at the CD during boot. If the cd drive is empty it should look to the HD if its hanging on an empty cd drive then the cd drive could be not communicating all the time. Had that happen with a A drive and went into BOIS changed start up to disable drive at start and started using the cd for boot never replaced the old A drive. This same problem can also be intermit and just hard to get booted.

I think he means it does it sometimes and can be hard to start. I know what it means the Hp laptop I am on right now did it just this morning. Power light comes on and that is all. Not a hard drive problem the drive never got involved. Not a CD drive problem never get that far. Don't even get to see the BOIS option flash on the screen just nothing happens. I power off and use the reset button under the PC the power light will flash as it clears the ram and the CPU will reload the BOIS from the CMOS chip at the next start up and it works fine again for weeks. But it also looks like some wired install because of the empty NTFS part. which is half the drive?

What OS are you using do you have firewall premission for MSM to connect to the interrnet. If using Win xp go to firewall setting and be sure messager is allowed. Norm this will happen by itsself and a warning that it has seen MSM and is allowing it, but you may have second firewall or norton or something. MSM norm works vary well I use it everyday.

You have an 80 gig drive with two partitions. Normaly would be a second operatng system in other partition of a differant type with it being loged into at start up maybe from a LiLo type program. What files are on the D: drive does it show up in My Computer along with things like My documents and the CD drive etc. explore D: drive and see whats on it. It could also be an image of C: for restore? You may have to re istall everthing and delete that partition if it has one real purpose. Did OEM set it up like this or some local shop maybe a used drive.

ps second drive looks empty like its just wasted space starting to think maybe setup is wired all strange and a better install may solve much of your problem.

I have to say I did bin NORTON a few months ago it was a pain, It caused me more trouble then virus ever did. I am just using windows live one care and seems to be woeking vary well without slowing down system at all. That and firewall is all I need for XP. Don't open Fwd Fwd Fwd Fwd e mails even if from a friend and tell your friends to get you off the group list they used to send the junk. When on Linux just don't be logged in as root. I like that.

My laptop with WinXP will often do this same thing. After I run Linux live it will always do it. If it does it at start up I just power down and use the reset on the bottom and the power light flashs it clears the cr--p in the RAM which will sometimes stay even if you pull it out and then it starts fine. Its like the BIOS won't reload that little bit it does if it thinks it is aready there it has to be gone to replace the bad stuff.

Well, it appears that the report is about one particular community and one particular business - elephant park.

People feel threatened and their reaction is unreasonable. What is so surprising? They've invested years and years of hard work and feel that new sons in law may take over their business.

How would small western business owners react in the same situation - a group of immigrants settles in the area and they look like they want to open new, competing businesses there, or marry their way into existing ones.

In the USA, this happens all the time. One that comes to mind is when a group of Vietnamese refugees settled along the Texas and Louisiana coastline and then began competing with Americans in the shrimping business. Along the Gulf Coast, generations of Americans had been involved in shrimping. They felt the Vietnamese were intruding in an area where they did not belong. It was not a pretty scene but eventually the situation was resolved. Today Vietnamese and American families co-exist and compete on an equal footing.

Most of the problem back then in Texas was the Viet did not understand the rules and fished anytime anywhere and took everything the got. After they learned the lease and contact grounds seasons and limits things got better. Still today many new comers don't understand things like this that is why around Seattle you still find fishing rules posted at docks in five languages including Thai. And yes my wife has paided a few tickets concerning limits over the past 35 years.

I wondered if it would be possible or feasible to set up a web cam or series of web cams in a remote farm. The objective being to see live images from computer in another part of Thailand and in Europe. I thought the web cameras could be hidden and a small solar powered computer with permanent internet connection would make it possible. Maybe security companies do soemthing similar. I do not live in Thailand and I presume I would need to get a wireless satelite internet connection.

Any ideas or comments, other than the obviouse ( don't be a lunatic, all Thais hate us anyway so it can't be done. can't do it so leave Thailand etc.).

I live in such a place and have a Sat. connection. I have also downloaded and have been testing various webcam set ups which include the use of longer range wireless cam to place them in other local areas. I am a vary long way from deploying any system as I would prefer to serve it myself and I am also building a linux based server. It is my intention to provide a window on the daily activity of the SEA outback. I am also in no hurry because of money concerns, but will at some point be connecting. My wife thinks its a dumb idea.

The law is pathetic but the Thais have a right to be the way they are. Don't forget that so much of this country was built by law breaking. It's the way of life here. Just keep a smile on your face and you will be able to get what you want. It works most of the time but there are exceptions, Thaksin.

The King of Thailand was born in Massachusetts.

BTW Did you know Thaksin's son was born abroad in the US? Is he an American citizen?

99 percent of the time yes. But if they are in the States protected under emerssaie protection rules. No.They have to be in the states under any normal status. Not as part of another State. I don't know what status Thaksin was under at the time.

Well, it appears that the report is about one particular community and one particular business - elephant park.

People feel threatened and their reaction is unreasonable. What is so surprising? They've invested years and years of hard work and feel that new sons in law may take over their business.

How would small western business owners react in the same situation - a group of immigrants settles in the area and they look like they want to open new, competing businesses there, or marry their way into existing ones.

Ha ha ha. Just how do you think america was built. Thats just what happened and its OK.

Sounds like all P2P traffic will get redireacted to a location that they can control content, which means there won't be much. Thailand is building a firewall and control gate modeled after China.