Be kind. Do a Scandisk.



Is your computer running slow? acting weird? I suggest you do a scandisk (google and find out how to do a scandisk) once a month. (with the 2 boxes checked) Have been reformating this computer and found out that the HDD file allocation table has been severely damage. In the end, the whole harddisk gone. But its lucky that it is still under warranty.

Keyword you can search for if your harddisk is damage. This is a 'Western Digital' Brand so I just type in Western Digitial RMA in google. The website will allow you to check your warranty status and teach you how to send the faulty drive back. presto.

Most Challenging Computer.


For 2 days I've been meddling with this dell P4-2.4Ghz. It has been damn tough to fix this thing. First, it took me 10mins just to open the case. The internal component design was different. The whole case was damn heavy. The graphics card area all very fragil. The PC gives me attitude when I plug in my mouse to the front USB port. The hard disk can't be clone. kaoz.

Anyone have RDRAM x2 (256MB) wanna sell? Manage to fix up this computer after 2 days. Level up one more due to dealing with completely different structure.

I hope tomorrow will be the last PC I fix.. its going to be my brother PC. Helping him to reformat. After that find a job for life.

Officially No More School

Its march 28 today.. I'm official a reservist

My Very Own Book



The Navy must be very despo to recuit people. The name written is no photoshop. What's inside the pages? Pay me $10 and I will sell the book to you. hahahaha....

Just Do It.

Bloody Ex Spectacles!

Busy Day

Today meet up with my army friend to discuss my resume. I show him all my cert and he was just superb in English writing and editing. Save my resume under the name 'My Awesome CV.doc' lolx.

After that I decided to drop off at orchard road to a optic shop to get my glasses fix. What intially turn out to be a trip just to get a replacement frame become making a ridiculous expensive spec. The spec is damn light weight and the metal can be twisted anyhow without snapping... damn high tech. Cost me near to $300... kaoz.

Went home 'blindly' cos I have to leave my spoil specs for them to take out the lens and transfer to the new specs. I can't see a thing without my spec... had to see people reaction to the bus and I act like kiasu to squeeze in cos it was peak hour. Lucky it was the correct bus.

Put on my kuku old spec and drove to Tampines to sell some stuff. Took the chance to return some flash MX books to my friend. Monday going to friend house to fix PC.. this time its at Jurong ... damn far.

Oh ya... today I was playing with my address book in outlook express and there was this sync button. I press and my address book was filled with tons of extra email address... I deleted all the extras and sync again.. to my horror, my zippy_24hrs account reduce from 100++ ppl to 6 ppl !!!! OMG... had to re-add one by one to my zippy_25hrs. DAMN SIONG.

PPL reading this, pls add me at zippy_25hrs instead of zippy_24hrs. Thank you!

Problem Solving




Have been wondering how to silent this computer which I've been fixing. It's running on a Pentium 4- 2.4Ghz Processor (not celeron) aka prescott. The small casing consist of 2 harddisk and 2 DVD writers. Problem is that the CPU fan will go from 2000RPM to near to 4000RPM.

For a PC to be of acceptable range, you need the fan to be running at 2500RPM. anything higher then 3000RPM is consider noisy. I manage to silent it to so-so condition by adding a fan on top of the CPU. Job done.

$$$ collection tomorrow.

Sick Yesterday. Ok Today.

One whole day of productivity wasted yesterday. Was drinking barley water, sleeping, eating medicine the whole day. I think I slept for a total of 20 hours.

Was checking my palmtop and found out yesterday I was the pianist. I donno why they call me before week 3 of the month for pianist. Maybe God wants me to have a rest.

Well planned indeed. Thanks dear for the care and concern.

Sick

Fairly high fever today at 5am. Woke up feeling all cold. was 38 degrees. It's donkey years since I got fever.

Didn't went to see doc cos feel better after the first dose of medicine.

All Work and no Play makes a dull person.

Today I spend half the day reformatting the computer. There was phone call from my previous courts manager and I guess he was rather happy with what I'm done to his computer that day. This time round, I think he throw me whatever computer hardware he has in his house and ask me to fix it.

Not every computer that I fix earns me money. The previous computer which the graphics card was giving problem and I bought a new one was giving problem again. They say that the new card which I bought has problem. kaoz.. all the way to outram sec sch to get the whole CPU again. Don't think will be charging them any $$.

Around 7pm today, there was another computer coming in. This one was from my church friend. I was not around to collect due to badminton session with shelly, kok, shallum, tze yong and fransin. It was damn fun and tiring. Came home and try to figure out what's wrong with the compaq PC. Actually nothing much. Just that the computer needs to reformat. Weird... it was reported like motherboard spoil, graphics card not working.. Tomorrow got time then fix.

Today badminton session was great. I still haven't done my resume.

Random Post.

Went out to church in the afternoon to help out in the 'band practice'. Fransin went too. She got a hang of the drum. 10mins and she was playing smoothly. Proceed to Sim Lim Sq to get Motherboard + Processor + HDD Rack... etc.

Came back home to get the vehicle and proceed to hougang to fix my cousin computer. Recently they subscibe to Singnet Broadband 1500. I told them to get an Ethernet Modem but turn out that the system does not have an ethernet card.

New Year Resolution : 1280 X 1024


19" Display is just different...

Transform




Clean 50% of my room today cos found out that the DVD writer that I bought on IT show was not reading any movie DVDs. Waited for 30 mins for the exchange. I torn down all my cert from the wall and put into one file. I haven't start on my resume yet.

Army friend came and brought a computer along for me to fix. Going to fix it tomorrow. Just came home from dasmond house after fixing his PIII.

work work work.

It's no wonder why IT show is a hit.

I receive a call from Melody (my canon supervisor) that she need me to help out in the IT show. I was quite unwilling but didn't want to turn her down. Moreover, it was my duty as pianist in church.I didn't regret going. It was breathless.. sorry to renhui... I didn't know anything about the laptop... I was selling printers at the rate of 3 printers per hr. Sold 21 printers at the end of the day. MADNESS!

It feels like I'm selling printers every 15mins. The crowd is insane... come in and buy, come in and buy... omg.Earn around $100++ in 7hrs. Thanks to Jessie for the green tea drink.. didn't eat also.. damn hungry but its the $_$ that keeps me going.

Bought some items from the PC show for myself also:
LG DVD writer: $109
Philips 190B6CB : $529
USB power adaptor: $15

Total Damage: $653

Welcome to my new blog. This blog will be about my working life.

School is finally over in my life.