Water pump priming

October 18th, 2011

Not sure if this shows an underlying issue or not (probaly does) but to prime water pump

Switch filter value off

remove NRV from pump and reattach imput pipe

open filter value and allow water to backflow down input pipe (to prime it) (loosen pump prime valve to let air out)

run pump a few cycles

turn pump off, close filter value and replace NRV

open filter value and prime pump

turn pump on.

 

Linksys WAG354G hidden links and other stuff

November 24th, 2010

I use a linksys (again) for my ADSL connection due to the long line length and the fact that the netgear DG834 V5 switched chipset to one that cause me issues, the linksys chipset works much better (broadcomm) for me but sadly does not work as well with routerstats software.

Firstly this link can be used in routerstats to reboot the router (in the alarms pages) (I have removed my password and username)

http://192.168.1.1/apply.cgi?submit_type=HRebootvalidate&action=Rebootvalidate&reboot_username={username}&reboot_password={password}

And some hidden URLS that are of use (there used to be site that had these but the pages has long since gone)

http://192.168.1.1/ADSLCStatus.htm (I use this for routerstats since it is the simplest to parse)

http://192.168.1.1/Summary.asp - A summary page of most if not all of the router settings including some not visible elsewhere

http://192.168.1.1/dhcp_reserved.asp DHCP reserved list, not tried to use this page so don’t know if it works or why it is not shown on the main screens

Mybook world edition II (blue rings) – Web GUI stuck

March 22nd, 2010

When replacing drives and rebuilding raid arrays the drive management page got stuck on formatting….

This is caused by a temp file being left in place when something goes wrong.

If you have ssh installed you can log in to box and delete files from /temp that cause the issue, in the drive management case this was /tmp/dm_progress

Scripts which name the temp files are in /usr/www/nbin

TVRAGE.COM API

December 13th, 2009

I have been playing with a java program that looks up the TVRAGE site via the published API calls to retrieve the next episode information for TV shows. Most shows work easily when accessed but I had a problem with any that use the greek SIGMA letter and in the case of the show Greek I could not get a url for the API to work until I realised that entering %CE instead of a capital sigma works even if it did not show correctly on the URL line

AMD Athlon XP 2600+

November 25th, 2009

Info for setting up my old machine that has this processor (took a while to find the last time).

(Mine is 333 FSB)

 
 
There are three types of AMD Athlon XP 2600+ desktop processors.

Athlon XP 2600+ with 256KB L2 Cache and 266MHz FSB
CPU Speed: 2133MHz (2.133GHz)
CPU Frequency Multiplier: 16.0x
CPU External Frequency (MHz): 133

Athlon XP 2600+ with 256KB L2 Cache and 333MHz FSB
CPU Speed: 2083MHz (2.083GHz)
CPU Frequency Multiplier: 12.5x
CPU External Frequency (MHz): 166

Athlon XP 2600+ with 512KB L2 Cache and 333MHz FSB
CPU Speed: 1917MHz (1.917GHz)
CPU Frequency Multiplier: 11.5x
CPU External Frequency (MHz): 166

The CPU External Frequency for Athlon XP is half of the FSB Frequency. Thus, with a 333MHz FSB, the CPU External Frequency is 166MHz.

On the ASUS A7V8X-X Motherboard, for a 333MHz FSB Athlon XP, the setting for CPU External Frequency (MHz) should be 166/33. 33MHz is for the PCI Bus, while 166MHz is for the System Bus (a.k.a. External Bus).

For PC2700 RAM, the Memory Frequency is 333MHz.

(was on http://hankfiles.pcvsconsole.com/answer.php?file=564)

HOAT Antifreeze

November 25th, 2009

Had a greate deal of difficulty in finding the recommended antifreesze/collant for my Jeep in the UK, in fact even one Jeep dealer I asked was using the wrong thing.

So for future reference there is only one make of HOAT antifreeze that I could find for sale in the uk.

Comma Oils Xstream G05, it makes matters worse since the material for this does not actually mention that it is a HOAT amtifreeze but it does contain the correct formulation for my jeep (a diesel btw).

Go to their web site, search for a local dealer and they should order it for you, that’s what I did.