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Well with my computer being fried this may be my last post in the IHOP for quite some time. The only other computer I have access to is at work but I'm too nervous to enter the hop or off-topic sections in here for fear of something bad being in it that the all-seeing eyes pick up on. I've gone into the regular audio sections and probably will continue to do so, but only once per day during my lunch hour. So if you were sick of me before, here's your chance at a bit of a reprieve.

Well I'm pretty sure the hard drive is fried. When I go into the setup screen by hitting F2, there's a list of the hardware, except next to hard disk it says "none." well, I suppose I'm going to get a new desktop. Any suggestions on a good brand? I've always liked Dell.

Good thinking, I had forgotten about that.

One of my coworkers suggested doing a system recall, where it basically refers back to the last time your computer was updated or worked, and you'd lose everything between when that happened and now. Does that sound like a decent option? That seems like it would be a lot easier, although I really don't know when it would back up to.

Yesterday my girlfriend was doing homework on my computer and was trying to open Microsoft Word when the computer froze. She said it was making "thinking noises" but grew impatient and did a hard turn-off. Then when she turned it back on it said "Operating system not found" and wouldn't load. I've never had problems with it before other than an occassional blue screen if I leave the computer on too long because it seems that it doesn't like my wireless adapter sometimes. I just unplug it and it reloads fine. It's a Dell Inspiron 2600 laptop that's almost 7 years old now. I get home after work, oblivious to the problem, and turn it on. It comes up with an options screen asking how it would like me to load it, and the options were to load in safe mode, load with last known working settings, or load normally. I didn't know what happened so I just chose to load normally. It thought for a while, the Windows XP screen popped up and seemed like it was working, then came up with a blue screen. So I shut it off and the process repeated itself. I should have chosen to load either in safe mode or with last known working settings that time, but I was still confused and again chose to load normally. This time it thought for a really long time, then came up with "Operating system not found." So I turned it off, waited a while, and turned it back on, and after one screen saying it was loading MBA, it said "OS not found" again. Then each of the 47 subsequent times I tried restarting, it did the same thing. So apparently it seems that my computer can't find my operating system (Windows XP). Nice conclusion, huh? Anyways, I don't have an XP cd to reload it. I was going to take it to the Geek Squad at Best Buy to see if they could fix it, but being the fix-it-myself kind of guy I was hoping to try and reinstall windows first. But Best Buy no longer sells XP, only Vista. I like XP. I don't want to buy Vista just to try it, because that junk costs $200 and I can just get a whole new laptop for twice that. Has anyone had any experience with this before? I'm hoping I don't have to reformat for obvious reasons, the main of which is that I've never backed it up. Oops. But if I did, would there be any way to get the data off of my hard drive without the OS working? Like basically syphon it off with another computer through the USB port or something? My girlfriend has the touch of death. Her laptop just messed up last week and has all kinds of errors and won't do anything. We barely got all of her thousand pictures and school stuff onto an external hard drive. We'll be reformatting that before long because it's totally worthless as it is.

Why do you want to take one out and port the other? Also, I assume you have dual 2 ohm coils? Were they just wired at 2 ohms at the amp and not giving all of the power the amp could provide?

yeah, wiring the two voice coils on each sub in parallel. + to + then to the + on the amp, same for negative. That will lower a dual 2 ohm voice coil sub to a 1 ohm net load at the amp.

I take it you're measuring DC resistance? And what sub do you have? If it's a 4 ohm voice coil it's not supposed to read 4 ohms on the meter. It should read like 3.2.

I suggested dual 1 with the premise that you were getting a single amplifier for both subs together and wanted a 1 ohm final load. You asked if BTLs came in dual 4, which led me to believe that you needed a single 2 ohm load for each sub. The dual 1 ohm coils wired in series will also give a 2 ohm load per sub. So if you kept your single amplifier, get dual 1. Each sub would then receive approximately 1300 watts. But if you're going to just add another hifonics 2600 watt, you should get dual 2 ohm coils so that you can wire each sub's coils in parallel for a 1 ohm load on each amp. 2,000 watts is plenty for a BTL. It may be able to handle 3,000, but it doesn't NEED that much. 1,300 watts will also move the sub decently.

I'd say the single 15.

BTLs come in dual 1. That's what you'd want. you can wire the voice coils on each sub in series then parallel the two subs, bringing the overall load to 1 ohm, just like dual 4's would in all parallel.

It can..... and it will if you feed the amp a dirty signal, clip the signal, or not enough power to it causing dirty power. OR pump bass through them. clipping and "dirty power" don't kill speakers. It's simply too much power.

It is illegal as far as I know. So you may get a ticket.

I can't think of any situation where that could happen.

Are you sure you're reading this right? The subsonic on that amp only goes from 10 to 50 hz. The lowpass crossover, on the other hand, goes from 20-200 hz. Are you sure you aren't getting the two mixed up? If so, that could be the cause of the problem. The subsonic needs to be at like 25 hz and the lowpass at 70-80 hz or so, and not the other way around. Otherwise you have problems.

I'm not really sure why he typed the first post in that thread like that. I checked his previous posts to see if it was a trend, but he seemed to type completely normal until that one, which was real stupid sounding.

They are just shoes, seriously. That attitude is unacceptable, immaturity at it's best. That's Chris Rock, yo. I'm talking about the people that actually do get in fights about that stuff. Oh I definitely agree, I just wasn't sure if you caught the quote.

It's a nice install, but every time I see these with the sub partitioned off facing the trunk I have to wonder how much output inside the cab they are losing because the bass gets trapped in the trunk. IMO, it would have been louder if you had faced it forward with the same setup, and maybe put some plexi on the back of the box to allow you to see the motor inside.

Yep, will be loud enough. Even an extra 500 watts will only give you another 1 db or a tad more. And you definitely need the BL.

They are just shoes, seriously. That attitude is unacceptable, immaturity at it's best. That's Chris Rock, yo.

One compartment is much easier and it saves you a little room with port displacement.

What won the pizza eating contest?

You can do the cone area theory that says twice the cone area on the same power will yield a 3 db increase. On the site it says the 15" has 810 cm^2 and the 12 has 480 cm^2. That's about 60% of the cone area you had before, so 40% loss x 3 db = about 1.2 db lower. But that's purely theoretical and the way the different size subs interact with the box their in (where the peak is, impedance, etc.) can/will affect that as much as the cone area decrease.

It will sound like boom boom boom

why is it that no hair cut place can cut my hair correctly? I've been to 3 different shops in the last 6 months and each time when I get home my gf says "here let me get the scissors, they left some long hairs here and here and here....." This is why I've stopped tipping until I find somebody who doesn't make me go through that and I repeat with them.