trev260764
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There are a few manuals on eBay on CD for about a fiver. Anyone know whether they are worth buying?
CD manuals
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Probably not if you have broadband or can wait for dial-up as they are free on Rick's site: http://www.cannell.co.uk/Manuals.htm
trev260764
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I have had a quick look on there - but it seems that the downloads are mainly engine based. I am looking for interior removal etc Fen.
FWIW I bought a CD based manual (for 993) off ebay a while ago and it turned out the PDF file was corrupt - waste of money and time.
trev260764
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No not really Fen. I just wanted to have a trawl through. A bit like a Haynes manual I guess. I got one with the car (thrown in) and it is shite - I have seen what you guys think as well!
I am still struggling with my air con however. Not sure what the buttons operate - and not even sure what the two sliders with the arrow on actually do!!
I am still struggling with my air con however. Not sure what the buttons operate - and not even sure what the two sliders with the arrow on actually do!!
Quick summary of the heater controls:
Top slider controls how much air flow goes to the upper half of the system - basically the screen and face vents. If you want screen you set the slider between the middle vents to the windscreen symbol at the top and for face level you slide it down. It can be set part way in between. You also of course have individual open/closed on the end face level vents.
The lower slider is to allow air to the footwells. You can basically consider the system as two parts with a shared fan and temperature control, although the top gets cool air while the bottom gets warm in some conditions.
In terms of buttons you have one for recirculation which means fresh air from outside is not drawn in, one for demisting which overrides all the other controls (apart from the slider between the centre vents) and blows max fan speed, max heat with all output to the windscreen, and if you have air-con one to turn the cooling on.
Being an S2 with the numbers round the temp dial it will maintain a set temperature regardless of outside temp and vehicle speed so long as you don't set it lower than ambient temperature. If you have air-con and turn the cooling on then you can get control to lower than ambient temperature.
That's basically it, if I explained it clearly enough.
Top slider controls how much air flow goes to the upper half of the system - basically the screen and face vents. If you want screen you set the slider between the middle vents to the windscreen symbol at the top and for face level you slide it down. It can be set part way in between. You also of course have individual open/closed on the end face level vents.
The lower slider is to allow air to the footwells. You can basically consider the system as two parts with a shared fan and temperature control, although the top gets cool air while the bottom gets warm in some conditions.
In terms of buttons you have one for recirculation which means fresh air from outside is not drawn in, one for demisting which overrides all the other controls (apart from the slider between the centre vents) and blows max fan speed, max heat with all output to the windscreen, and if you have air-con one to turn the cooling on.
Being an S2 with the numbers round the temp dial it will maintain a set temperature regardless of outside temp and vehicle speed so long as you don't set it lower than ambient temperature. If you have air-con and turn the cooling on then you can get control to lower than ambient temperature.
That's basically it, if I explained it clearly enough.
Trev,
Here you go:
944, 944S and 944 Turbo owner's manual : http://alordofchaos.com/Documents/944_owners_manual.mht
I've started a 944 links page here:
http://forums.tipec.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=1904&p=16976#p16976
with lots of other good stuff.
HTH,
Here you go:
944, 944S and 944 Turbo owner's manual : http://alordofchaos.com/Documents/944_owners_manual.mht
I've started a 944 links page here:
http://forums.tipec.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=1904&p=16976#p16976
with lots of other good stuff.
HTH,
trev260764
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Cheers Fen (again) and Jim. I don't have the Owners Handbook so the link is really useful. No pictures though, they have not downloaded. Do they exist origionally, or have I done something wrong?
trev260764
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DON'T WORRY!! I have opened it in 'word'. Sorry guys - I know this is not a computer forum.
But if anyone has some vista recovery-discs for my Acer laptop I would be chuffed...
But if anyone has some vista recovery-discs for my Acer laptop I would be chuffed...
Vista recovery disks - otherwise known as a Windows XP CD [
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I just spent several hours last week rebuilding both my laptops with XP (that's a fairly powerful one that has a "Windows Vista Capable" sticker on it and a less powerful little one that came with Vista on it from new) because they were both painfully slow. It was a fair chunk of work as both have hard disks that weren't around when XP was current (and there is "no XP driver" for the smaller one), but I got there and it's like night and day now. Of course I find a bit of software every few hours that I haven't reinstalled yet.
]I just spent several hours last week rebuilding both my laptops with XP (that's a fairly powerful one that has a "Windows Vista Capable" sticker on it and a less powerful little one that came with Vista on it from new) because they were both painfully slow. It was a fair chunk of work as both have hard disks that weren't around when XP was current (and there is "no XP driver" for the smaller one), but I got there and it's like night and day now. Of course I find a bit of software every few hours that I haven't reinstalled yet.
trev260764
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Windows installed Service Pack 1 for Vista (auto update) the other day and now it won't boot up. On switching on it tries to fix itself but can't.
I guessed the only option left was to recover it with my Recovery Discs that I made when I first set-up the PC, but the first disc only reads up to 1min 40secs (1%) - then freezes.
The PC was not supplied with a Vista disc (I guess this is why I was prompted to make the recovery-discs), and my recovery-discs don't work - so what can I do do you reckon?
Look forward to hearing from ya, Fen.
I guessed the only option left was to recover it with my Recovery Discs that I made when I first set-up the PC, but the first disc only reads up to 1min 40secs (1%) - then freezes.
The PC was not supplied with a Vista disc (I guess this is why I was prompted to make the recovery-discs), and my recovery-discs don't work - so what can I do do you reckon?
Look forward to hearing from ya, Fen.
trev260764
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Just printed out my Owners handbook (A4, 195 pages). How am I going to staple it together?
geoffbateman
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My wife bought me one for £2.99 off ebay. Complete factory manual. Complete strip and rebuild information, special tools etc.Full electris for all options, UK, US, SA and ROW. Looks like a genuine factory manual scanned in and saved onto dvd. Threw away the Haines book of lies as no longer required. So impressed I bought one for my MG as well.
Try what Simon suggests to get disks, but you could also try bashing F8 while it's trying to boot and see if you can get into the safe mode menu. It's possible that it will boot in safe mode even if it doesn't boot normally, and while there's the slimmest of chances that simply booting it to safe then rebooting might clear your issue it's more likely that you can then do some diagnosis.
I can't remember where it is in Vista (and haven't got a Vista machine to check any more), but if you can find system restore you might be able to take it back to the point before you installed SP1. Take a squint at Microsoft's recovery options page: http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/windows/en-US/help/2b3724d1-f4ad-5b26-16dc-3e9e66f4be5e1033.mspx
I can't remember where it is in Vista (and haven't got a Vista machine to check any more), but if you can find system restore you might be able to take it back to the point before you installed SP1. Take a squint at Microsoft's recovery options page: http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/windows/en-US/help/2b3724d1-f4ad-5b26-16dc-3e9e66f4be5e1033.mspx
trev260764
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It won't boot in safe-mode. And because I can't boot, I can't access system restore...
I have burned some eRecovery discs on my daughters Acer laptop and they ARE READING in my laptop as I write this. Don't know what will happen when they complete!!
I have burned some eRecovery discs on my daughters Acer laptop and they ARE READING in my laptop as I write this. Don't know what will happen when they complete!!
Should be OK if you burned them from you PCs stuff, might be driver issues otherwise. You will lose everything using a manufacturer's recovery process.
You can run system restore from the command line if you can get to that - probably also from DOS if you could boot from a floppy disk, but of course your laptop probably doesn't have a floppy drive, does it?
You can run system restore from the command line if you can get to that - probably also from DOS if you could boot from a floppy disk, but of course your laptop probably doesn't have a floppy drive, does it?
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