Who needs a HDD enclosure? At the least, just plug it in to the other computer, set the HDD on the desk. It works fine without an enclosure. Want an eclosure? Have another desktop PC? Simply open the case of the working computer and temporarily “install” the hard drive off the dead computer into a working one long enough to get the stuff off the drive you need. I have yet to see a computer that does not have at least one open drive slot in the case and an open HDD connector on the MB.

This also works in a pinch if you have an infected computer that will not clean up no matter what you do, piggyback it on a clean system and run your anti-virus, malware on the infected drive.

I know your unit is working now. Thought I would add this suggestion in case it happens again. My LCX-37 does the same thing. Gets to the screen with the fish pic hangs for a few seconds and shuts off. If you have a map chip installed, remove it and reboot, if it works, try the map chip in the other card slot.

This works for me, it seems my top card slot is dead and causes the behavior you described. Moving the map chip to the lower slot lets the unit boot up and work properly.

Several years ago, public ramp near Isle, MN a buddy and I were next in line to launch. While waiting for the truck to clear the ramp and before we could move into posistion a 16ft tiller pulled along the dock and one of the guys got out to retrieve his truck. At first I thought he would get the truck then get in line and wait his turn. Well, the guy still in the boat just sits there right over the ramp holding onto the dock. By now, we had backed down close to the water and I finally ask the guy if he could move so boats could continue launching.

He argues it is their turn, I reply his buddy should be getting into the back of the line and wait his turn and he should move the boat out of the way so other people can continue to unload, and that the boats already in the water were waiting their turn and he was jumping line ahead of them also. I get a few mumbles under his breath I could not hear and he pulls himself to the back corner of the dock and to my amazement steps off the BOW of the boat onto the dock. You know what happens next, the boat goes one way and after doing splits no man in his 60’s should do he ends up in the drink, nothing but his red man baseball cap visible!

I look in disbelief as he slowly surfaces looking PO’d beyond belief, I hop out of the boat and offer a hand, which he refuses. One of the other boats that were waiting their turn to put in, who these two butted in front of also, retrieved the boat that had drifted off and my buddy moved out of the way to allow these “TIMMY!’s” to get out and get the guy into a warm truck. “It was late Oct. water not too warm!”

Trailer lights are 5 pin, it is a Bear trailer not sure of model number atm, roller bed, single axle.

I had not noticed the brakes sounding like they were dragging while backing up before. I had heard the issues of some of the trailers locking up the brakes in reverse with the lights unplugged. I thought that my trailer did not have the electric part of the control.

A habit of mine from being a mechanic in the army was to touch wheel hubs whenever I stopped to see if any one was getting hot. I still do this, while warm after a trip from Rochester to Richfield, I would not call the hubs hot enough to cause me alarm. Also, no burning brake smell noted when I first pulled into the driveway, I may be looking at things too close.

I was guessing the guy I store my boat with snagged that breakaway cable with the tractor he uses to move it around the yard, it appears to be pulled out like 1/2 inch based on a slight kink in the cable.

Was going to be out there installing v2 of ipilot today, will take some pics for you to chew on also. Thanks!

I too have been burned by Lowrance CS, 2 failed 113’s and a failed 38. These were installed at the same time my 1197 was installed. In that time I had the failures mentioned already and Lowrance issued all of one, maybe two updates to the software. Nothing has come out since the new HDS series came out. The HB on the other hand has given me zero problems and about two software updates a year seem to come out. To include the addition of the downscan or whatever they call to give equal functions to match the feature that Lowrance came out with when their sidescan came out. Played catch up there yes, but the update was no charge.

My Lowrance units have worked now for 2 or 3 years now, I do wonder every time I turn them on if they will work though. When they die they will be replaced with a new bird. I have heard that the Lowrance quality has improved and that CS has made improvements too. My units are so far out of warranty that I guess I will never know. As much as I would love to, I cannot afford to buy $6k in electronics every couple years when Lowrance releases a new design and they drop support for the previous model. For that $6k, I also expect it to work for more then the duration of the warranty.

Only other transducer mfr I have heard of is Airmar. I bought and installed one of theirs last spring for the same reason you are looking. It’s a BIG sob! Like 5 times the physical size. I think mine is installed a bit to deep, it kicked up on me in some big waves on Millacs once. It does have a more narrow cone angle then the Lowrance. Fairly easy to find with google search of Airmar. They run about $120 and I had to buy online, no one I could find local who sells them.

The dealership knew I could transfer the plates to the new truck. What makes no sense to me is they told me they could not sell it with my old plates, they would come off regardless if I transfered them or not.

What miffs me is the $400 I paid for tabs last month is gone according to them, I need to pay an additional $500 something for new tabs to cover up the ones I bought last month with no credit for the money I just spent on the last ones.

If the plates could stay with the old truck, at least the new owner could get 11 months of use out of them. I am being told that cannot happen. I have no clue why. If the plates are valid and the tabs are valid, except for being greedy, why would the state care WHO owns the vehicle until the tabs expire. The special fee for the plates and the cost of the tabs is in the coffers already. I am gonna swing by the city hall registration center on my way to pick up the truck and ask.

Yes, plates on all of my previous trucks have been critical habitat. Prior to this purchase, I had never been offered the chance to transfer them so I probably never realized the state seems to have a scam going on. This is a $40k + rig, it is more in principle that I am P&Ming about $400.

Just seems to me, if the next owner cannot use the 11 months remaining on the tabs I just purchased and I can transfer my plates with those tabs to my new truck, I should pay the DIFFERENCE in registration tax on the value of the new truck versus the value of my old truck. This would send the state about $200 more from me, not $700.

The state would still see the revenue from who ever buys my old truck and buys plates/tabs for it.

When I had my kicker installed I was asked what side I wanted it installed on. I had not given this any thought what so ever before being asked. For reasons I do not remember I had them install it on the drivers side of the transom (steering wheel boat). Now, I wish I had it installed on the other side. Ever since installing it, the boat lists a bit to that side with my big butt, the starter battery and the kicker on the same side. I have a heck of a time getting the boat on the trailer flat and level. I actually make sure my live well is filled and move my heavy tackle bags to the opposite side to try to even things out.

Just a thought.

My Sierra has squeaked since I drove it off the lot under those barely moving, barely pressing the brake pedal for the first time. Drives me nutz! Especially while crawling a field deer hunting, the brakes pick up a little moisture and I am sure I scare anything away within a mile or two.

I have had warped rotors twice, front brakes had one pad worn down almost to metal so I had to replace all of them. The others were still 90% life. I tried to get dealer to warranty the work and was denied. My Silverado never made any brake noise what so ever. I was told my calipers were sticking because of my off roading during hunting season and not cleaning the undercarriage well enough. Bunch of bull.

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As citizens we have the rights to enjoy public waters. Walk in them, swim in them, drink them. But we do not have the right to do them harm. If your elected officials believe the invasives do harm to the public waters it’s their duty to protect them. If it requires inspections so be it. If the results are tickets, so be it. If you don’t like it, then again, so be it.

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My problem with this whole situation is that the state/federal governments have simply sat on their thumbs for decades bowing to transport companies that run the cargo ships from whose ballast water these critters come from. Or most of em. Laws should be in place to stop this from happening to begin with!

Now, the cat is out of the bag, there are still no laws to stop new critters from getting into out water and fields and now we get to pay the price for “slowing” the spread. I have been watching the slow steady march of the asian carp as they move upriver for years. Groups have been sounding the alarm for years. DNR’s from several states have been sounding the alarm for years and yet all we have is some “electric fences” that appear to have either failed or not worked as intended. I don’t know about this gee-wizz DNA test that can isolate asian carp DNA from river water and everything else that is in it, but, if it is true then the buggers are already to the northern suburbs.

The east coast states pretty much sued every state to the west over pollution from power plants. Why can the upriver states not sue the bejeezus out of what ever state allowed these fish to be imported and then accidently released?

I carefully pick any weeds off my boat before I leave the ramp/parking lot, I have removed my drain plug since I bought the boat. Lol, I thought it was a law before it was a law so no big deal to me there. I wash my boat when I get home and only once in 5 years have I been lucky enough to go out again the following weekend. Except for that one time the boat sits for at least two weeks between outings. From how I understand the law any boat could be tagged for not being clean just pulling out of the ramp. No way to get it completely dry, it just came out of the water! What if it is raining? I am sorry, I am NOT going to crawl under my boat in a gravel parking lot, with mosquitos and other summer time bugs gnawing on me to look for some tiny speck of weed that hung up out of view from me. If that warrants a ticket, so be it. They start doing that and people will just stop buying/using boats your just about certain to get a ticket if/when you get caught up in one of these roadside checks. Sure, the guys pulling out with weeds visibly hanging from the trailer deserve a ticket. I don’t feel I do if some DNR employee specially trained to ID and locate the almost microscopic speck of a spiny water flea or zebra mussel larvae discovers something after contorting himself to get eyes on some dark inaccesible recess of my boat.

Yes, I will say yessir, yessir, three bags full WHEN I get checked, I will TRY to comply. Do I think I will still end up with a ticket, yup. Dunno how any boat can pass with the wording of the law.

Big money grab is all this is.

Love to read! Am reading everything new and catching up on the old from Brad Thor, David Baldacci, Clive Cussler, Tom Clancy, W.E.B. Griffin, Alex Berenson, Dan Brown, Steve Berry and Vince Flynn. I am more of a spies and military thriller fan and have not read any of griffin’s cop series, but am current on everything else and slowly replacing some worn paperbacks with hardcovers as I find them. I think Griffin has a new Presidential Agent novel coming out next week also!

If you want to check out a new author who may be similar to one you enjoy try out this site.
Literature map

In it, you enter the name of an author you know and enjoy and you get results showing other authors you may enjoy.

Yes, works, jsut wish the screen was larger

I will see your drug tests and raise you mandatory birth control for peeps on public assistance!

I have no clue how people can live for extended periods on PA bennies. I have been laid off from 2 jobs, the first one was a kick in the ‘nads for me. My first job after getting out of the Army. I worked for 3 years with them before the new owners told us to get out. I had already taken a second job selling tires and batteries at Sear’s trying to get ahead a bit. Wife decided she wanted out just before all this happened also. At one point I was getting about 4 hours sleep a night between the two jobs during my divorce, wife had moved out and was pressuring me to take the easy way out and file bancruptcy. Was too proud to do that, I had enough to pay the bills and by a little food. Thank god gas was less then a dollar a gallon at the time!

When the layoff was announced I was bummed. After looking around and only finding work for 7.00/hr I decided that someone above was telling me it was time to move back home to MN. I took my last check and rented a truck and moved back home. My new job here was a 2/hr raise over old job. Saw writing on the wall and bailed out just before layoffs happened, new job another raise, laid off again, was in school at the time for welding, 2 job offers at school job fair no raises this time but only one unemployment check before starting.

I have been a mechanic, a machinist, a assembler/installer, a painter, a dishwasher and a gas station attendant before learning to be a boiler operator. I will do anything and work my butt off doing it to keep my head above water even if only barely so. I never did file bancruptcy, my lazy ex did though and I had the joy of paying off her bills also.

As a kid my dad was active with the American Legion, he went to the proverbial one room school house in rural SD, never graduated from HS and after getting layed off from a job after 25 years discovered that not having that diploma mattered, he retired as a security guard. He was out giving food baskets to the needy and after getting laid off was visited by his friends brining him a basket while he looked for work. Never have I seen dad look so embarrassed. He declined that food, telling them to give it to someone who really needed it. We were eating hot dish (cream of mushroom soup, noodles and some hamburger?) almost nightly at the time. That night stuck with me and I have done whatever it took to not need any help from others.

If I got laid off again, I will again, do whatever it takes to at least keep what I have.

I am surprised that a company with sales in the amounts they have are allowed to get by with only paying $30 per label for this license that is creating such a stink.

Heck, I pay more then that for my boiler license.

Lol, thought this would be a post on the cool spring we have had so far.

Dang that sux! Any chance of elevating the request to a higher up and explain your less then satisfying experience with them so far?

A long time ago, (in the days of the 486 computers) I bought a Packard Bell and this was where I learned of “proprietary” parts. My PB had a motherboard mounted in some funky way that required a daughter board as they called it, to line things up with the rear of the computer. This pretty much made it impossible to install anything but PB parts into it. The way the priced stuff you would think it was made of gold!

I have only purchased a “pre-built” computer one other time. A POS E-machine. I knew it was. It was cheap and I just needed something to surf online with. 9 years later it still lives, the motherboard, CPU, and some of the memory chips anyway. I hacked it apart, put it in a new case with new power supply, video card and added a few hard drives. I need to replace some gunked up fans, I think it is about ready to die from dirt inside.

Anyways, that is why I started building my own machines. I really hope you keep trying with them. Seems you really got hosed over on the deal, especially if your warranty clock was still ticking while they had it for repairs the first time.

Boy, Dell has taken a nose dive has’nt it?

Kdawg is trying to update an older LCX series Lowrance. A 37C I believe. Though Lowrance says cards up to 2gb in size work, he is having issues getting it to run off a 2gb chip and it was suggested he try a smaller card. Cards under 1-2gb are not real easy to find retail these days.

Lol! This same thing happened to me a couple years ago at the Isle public ramp on Millacs. Guy pulled his boat to the dock ahead of others waiting to load the polite way. One of em jumps out and heads to get his truck. I thought the guy in the boat would move around to open up the ramp so the 6 or so trucks waiting in line could do their thing.

Nope, he sits there holding onto the dock, blocking it for everyone else and it wsa my turn to back in. I asked him if he could please move around the dock some so the ramp would be open and everyone could continue to use the ramp. He protests some and I point out that his buddy cannot even get to the ramp until the boats in line clear out. He walks the boat around to the end of the dock, well the bow anyways, and to my surprise he tries to step off the boat onto the dock and hold the boat with one foot!!!

The inevitalbe happens and his boat moves away from the dock and his legs spread wider and wider till he falls in the drink! Mind you, this was fall walleye fishing, late Oct. water was COLD!!!! You could just about see the steam coming off his head as he came to the surface he was so PO’d. I ran down to make sure he was alright, still dumbfounded by what I just saw. Someone waiting in a boat grabbed his and brought it over to the dock again. Everyone shifted around a bit to let them load up and get the wet guy into the warm truck. Unbelieveable!

If your close to me I can loan you a card so you can get the update installed. I am near the MOA.

I think you have the correct files. None of them end in .exe and have the .bin extension instead. Those file names look familiar to me. Try a smaller memory card, smaller then 1gb and try it again.

Edit: I grabbed a 256mb card I have and ran the installer. I ended up with the same files as you did. Pretty certain you need a smaller card. Don’t know why, these units supposed to work with cards up to 2gb in size but they don’t. At least not very well.

If you do not have the broadband sounder, then nothing to worry about. It is an add-on box that you plug your transducer cable to. Was just offering a heads up in case you had some other equipment that might need to be updated also.

Make sure the card your using is small, they say you can use 2gb chips in these, I have the 113 and 37C, but I have had crappy luck with them. For updating use something less then 1gb. I had an encounter with CS at Lowrance about an update that would not install. I tried it a dozen times with the CS person on the phone. We were both getting p***ed so I asked to talk to someone else. His first question was what size card was I trying to use (2gb) and he asked me to try the install on a smaller one. Think I found a 256kb one laying around. Downloaded the software again to the new card and BOOM! worked like a charm. Hope this helps!

Edit BTW, what GPS antenae you running?? Think there was an update to the LGC-2000 that was supposed to be run BEFORE you run the update for the head unit. If you look at the list of updates and check the LGC-2000 link it will say to run it first. Almost certain of that. Not sure what demons from hell you will release if you do not update it first. Check for any updates to your GPS also before you try to run the update and make sure if there is one you get them installed in the proper order. Was a few years ago since I did this, but I sure recall something about running update A before B for something.

Edit: I looked, nothing on the LGC-2000 update about doing it before the head unit, the LBS-1 broadband sounder though does call for the broadband sounder to be updated before the head unit, in case you have the LBS-1. I knew something was there about updating the head unit last.

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APR is not going to balance the heard all by itself but it is a step in the right direction, we also need to find a way to get hunters to take more does in intensive harvest areas. The common theme I heard from farmers at the town hall meeting last week was that there were way too many does doing damage to there crops. I have heard in some areas the buck to doe ratio is 10 to 1, one farmer said he did not think that ratio was correct, he believes that the buck to doe ratio in his area is closer to 30 to 1. If we are ever going to cut down these numbers we as deer hunters need to take more does plain and simple. How do we get hunters to take more does in areas that allow you more than one deer? I do not know the answer to that question.

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I would LOVE to help you and the state out with this problem. I would gladly pass on a state record buck (horns? ) and instead fill my tags with does. As I said in a previous thread about APR there are a few problems, such as landowners who have leased the land to a person/group for buck season and will not/ cannot let hunters in during doe season. Landowners who think they have their own little trophy habitat set up and are “managing” the land to produce bigger bucks for themselves. Non-hunter types who have moved into the area and will not allow even a couple hunters to walk the land to push the deer out of hiding spots.

I really should drive down to the area I hunt (area 343) and take a look at how many buck hunters are out for that season. In the area I hunt for the 3B season it is like my group are the only ones in the field. That in turn leads to the deer getting stirred up less and fewer doe being taken.

I do not care for the APR, simple as that. When a deer flushes from the woods or crests a rise or otherwise comes into view it is not easy, no, darn near impossible to make a positive ID on horn count unless the deer cooperates and stands still for a few moments while you take a long hard look. Is that a point? or a cornstalk behind it? Or a branch? I need to be dang sure of the points before I pull the trigger or I am gonna be in trouble if I walk up and find out I mis-counted.

I agree with the poster who said this will only lead to a worsening of the land access problem. I believe more land will end up in lease for trophy hunters with the cash to do it. The number of safe havens for the deer will increase and it will simply get harder to take a deer.

My area is intensive harvest, too many deer, period. If the state wants to reduce the overall size of the herd they need to address why landowners will not allow access to the land for the doe season. Earn a buck? I would love to take that doe from you, I have seen some posts in this thread that make it sound like some of the horn hunters think of the meat gained in a kill as an afterthought. I was raised in the you eat what you kill school. To me going out purely for the thrill of the hunt and/or kill, not to gain sustanance for myself/family is not right. I just do not get the people who go through all the expense of hunting only to donate the meat to the state for dispersal to food shelves (the lead issue is something else altogether ) I can place a fish back in the water that I catch and be pretty certain that it will recover and live to be caught again. Hunting is a one way street, pull the trigger and you just killed something. To not want the meat of the animal you just killed?

I am not holding my breath that the APR will be stopped before this experiment plays out. I will play by the rules and deal with it. I am concerned though to learn from this or one of the other APR posts that the questionaire about APR was on the DNR’s website and that anyone could submit it that way. This makes me wonder if the pro APR groups could have loaded the results by ensuring it’s members were very aware of it being online. No one in my group of about 12 recieved a survey. I was not aware the survey was on the DNR’s website until I read it in one of these posts. It would stand to reason that someone who holds this issue near and dear to his heart would take active steps to get his point of view across. Was I sleeping at the wheel? Perhaps. I start to think about hunting in Oct. when I need to hit the range and check the zero on my shotgun. If any swinging cod could take the survey online, how can anyone be certain that the results accurately portray the general populace? The more I hear about the results and how the votes in the survey were taken, the more I question it.

Yes, I could just buy a side of beef. Venison tastes better.

I am pretty sure the few times I have posted with a link, there was an explanation to go along with it. When I have been the one looking at the link, I always look at the bottom of my browser to see where the link leads. If it said click here and when I hovered my mouse over the link and below it said virusesgalore . com or something unsavory I would back away slowly. If it just said cabelas . com I would probably click it.

I do the same thing with emails, links in emails show the real address at bottom of screan, those emails from “ebay” that I get that do not go to ebay get deleted asap for example. I hope that I am not dropping my drawers just by previewing them this way.

Cannot even remember the last time I voted for someone in either of the two major parties. I vote every election and being in the incumbant spot is a sure way to not get a check mark next to your name. Has not done any good…. yet. Maybe next election cycle will see more votes for 3rd party canidates.

What the heck was he shooting them with? Looked like a shotgun with an extended magazine tube. Some of the dust clouds made me think he had shot (looked like multiple projectileshitting the area around the pig) in there also. Thought these feral pigs were some tough hombres and you needed a cannon to take em out.

Sweet video some other neat ones on the tube also!

And coming from someone who tried it, save yourself the headache and use a card UNDER 1gb in size for the update. I tried it with a 1gb, maybe 2gb card and it would not install. Had CS on the phone with me and conversation was getting “strained” until I talked to someone else who suggested installing the update on a smaller card.

Downloaded onto a 256mb card and it went in without further troubles.

Did not see ram mounts.

I did see a red/blue or blue/red adaptor cable for about $20 not sure which cable it was though. No tees, think I saw a blue network starter kit. (t and some cables)

I was really bummed seeing those lowrance parts there knowing I paid full price a couple years ago for them.

Glad I was able to help hook someone up though!!

Was against using taxpayer money for Twins stadium. Now that that got built anyway I cannot see how we could fairly deny the same thing to the Vikings. Still would rather not use taxpayer money to build something for folks with salaries like pro sports players make. What’s done is done and I cannot see how gov’t could be convincing as to why the Twins got one and the Vikings did’nt. Like everything else, it gets put on the back burner till it’s an emergency and gets crammed down our throats. Sorta like the invasive species bill this thread is about!

Meant no offense by that. Heck I live next to the airport and MOA, I am a “city folk”. What I meant was what seems to be tree hugger types, I see em driving BMW’s down the gravel roads, who like being away from the hustle and bustle but want nothing to do with hunters or hunting.

Story told by the guys I hunt with from before I started hunting with them of a doctor type who bought a wooded hilltop and built a house there. He would not let any hunters on his property. (his right, I know this) The deer figure out this is a safe haven during hunting season and hang around there. They eat his landscaping and begin to damage his property. (we all know how this COULD be handled) no, he goes to the city council to complain about all the deer damaging his property.

These are the types of people I was refering to.