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[quote="Biggvl"]Current lap top

The ever reliable Sucaba Laptop ,like all laptops it still has issues on rough roads.

Biggvl wrote:Stop being tight and buy a laptop that was made this millenium

Surely with your job it would be classed as a tax deduction?

after using newer ones im not keen. quality is shit and lack of driver support.

mine required 0 special drivers and worked out of the box by formatting it clean and installing win 7

What about the special driver that uses the laptop

just installed the ram, holy shit! its 10 fold faster now.

other news the gear set arrived. very happy! input shaft meshes perfect.

My hypothesis of the profiles being different for the clusters on the same tooth count/ratio was correct, they don't mesh at all lol.

So when replacing the cluster you must get the correct corresponding matched gears to suit even if the tooth count and ratios are the same.

I really recommend also fitting an SSD.. Solid State Hard Disc for those that are uninitiated.

They're cheap now, get an (also cheap) external USB enclosure... install the SSD into it.

Run free clone software.. like Macrium Reflect, to transfer 1:1 everything off your old hdd.

Swap the drive into the machine. Everything should boot normally.

Re-install your old hdd into the enclosure, use it for future backups using Macrium to do periodic imaging of the ssd.

Less chance of a physical crash, heaps faster, longer battery life. Win-Win.

The only real trick is to check for sure your old hdd is a SATA type... but that it easy to find out.
Download a little utility called HDtune, it can tell you how fast the old drive is to compare with- and also tells you the interface type.

Do it!

ralcool wrote:I really recommend also fitting an SSD.. Solid State Hard Disc for those that are uninitiated.

They're cheap now, get an (also cheap) external USB enclosure... install the SSD into it.

Run free clone software.. like Macrium Reflect, to transfer 1:1 everything off your old hdd.

Swap the drive into the machine. Everything should boot normally.

Re-install your old hdd into the enclosure, use it for future backups using Macrium to do periodic imaging of the ssd.

Less chance of a physical crash, heaps faster, longer battery life. Win-Win.

The only real trick is to check for sure your old hdd is a SATA type... but that it easy to find out.
Download a little utility called HDtune, it can tell you how fast the old drive is to compare with- and also tells you the interface type.

Do it!

Just the info I was looking for

Been considering upgrading to a SSD so the laptop doesn't crap out in the dyno room.

i did exactly that with an old dell i have. has 4GB ram (max) and a 250GB SSD. running windows 10, only additional driver needed was for the ricoh SD card reader. completely usable (although google chrome gives it a bit of grief with some of the video rendering due to shared graphics memory) before the tunerpro and the like - it is perfect.

yeah SSD is the only way these days.

ralcool wrote:I really recommend also fitting an SSD.. Solid State Hard Disc for those that are uninitiated.

They're cheap now, get an (also cheap) external USB enclosure... install the SSD into it.

Run free clone software.. like Macrium Reflect, to transfer 1:1 everything off your old hdd.

Swap the drive into the machine. Everything should boot normally.

Re-install your old hdd into the enclosure, use it for future backups using Macrium to do periodic imaging of the ssd.

Less chance of a physical crash, heaps faster, longer battery life. Win-Win.

The only real trick is to check for sure your old hdd is a SATA type... but that it easy to find out.
Download a little utility called HDtune, it can tell you how fast the old drive is to compare with- and also tells you the interface type.

Do it!

kinda pointless for a laptop from 2004. Its a very basic system, only tuning software, firefox and nothing else.

Starts up in 30 sec now where it took a good 5-10 to finishing loading everything up before.

I like this one as its still industrial quality unlike what they sell these days.

gear set is here, so sorted all the new bits to make sure its all going to work and put them in a box for now.


picked up the plated bits. Don't really need half of the stuff as my vacationer box was very clean so what I don't use I will put aside for future use.

now you can see the difference in R teeth. note the diamond shaped face on each, old one munched up a bit.