Archive for the ‘Hardware’ Category

My Sheeps Are BACK!

authored on Wednesday, December 12th 2007

For over 2 months ago, my best computer was running smoothly where multiple heavy processing softwares can run simultaneously without a hitch until I found out that my RAM burned internally.

Thank GOD I work in a computer company that can send it back for its lifetime warranty claim for free! How nice, that saved me RM50.

So for over 2 months, I’ve gotta disable all my programs from starting up at startup to reduce the usage on RAM. Imagine playing DOTA on a 387MB RAM on XP.

Man, running dreamwaver is already a drag, imagine photoshape. Swt.

But now my “Big Sheep” is back. Tada! 1GIG of RAM! Plus the existing ones, I’ll get nearly 1.5GIG of RAM!

Ah, life is good once again.

Catagorized under Computers, Hardware • 2 bellows & a yawp »

Have You Been Slaughtered While Computer Shopping?

authored on Friday, April 20th 2007

Have you been to a computer fair? I did. I stopped going once because I found out that the price there ain’t that much different from the everyday computer stores in Lau Yat. Yea, but this time I was very enthusiastic about going there because I was looking for a discount on a mouse I had set my eyes upon.

The Logitech MX Revolution Cordless Laser MouseÂ

Logitech MX Revolution Cordless Laser Mouse

Ahhh, my dream mouse. So while looking, I saw many stores such as SONY.

Okay, back to the topic. If there is a fair, one should see a price slash in all the products… At least that was the mentality I was brainwashed to be.

But alas, there were some products that I had got myself acquainted with and I know their prices like the the back of my hand. However these items were sold $50 above the normal price! I’m talking about an item that costs about $269, and they price it at $299, giving a it a cool ‘hot deal’ icon on their leaflet. Oh, someone save the pockets of those unsuspecting ones who will buy them.

Once again, this experience has now thought me to never buy at impluse but rather always do your research. One won’t die because one doesn’t get the latest iPod or laptop.

It has also strongly reminded me why I never go PC Fair for the past year. Until they come up with a better reason, they has very much lost a good customer.

Catagorized under Computers, Hardware, Marketing • Be the first to holler »

Recovering from a Computer Crash

authored on Wednesday, March 21st 2007

My last post says that the moment I switched my hard disk, my whole computer crash.  However the solution to it, wasn’t to reformat my whole entire computer system.

The problem was this, when I took out one of the hard disk to be replaced with the temporary hard disk, the BIOS read my operating system disk and modified to boot sequence to my computer.  I had just to change the order of my hard disk boot sequence and I would have got back to my normal computer.  However this solution was only found out after I have formatted my computer.  What a waste.

It usually takes me a day, to set back up my whole computer system.  In a way it’s good because it helps to remove a lot of old junk from the registry.

The good news is, I had learned a new thing.  If I was to send my computer system to another computer professional, it would have cost me quite a bomb.

As you read this post, this is the first post I can do from my newly formatted computer.

Thank you for your loyal reading,
tomagogame.

Catagorized under Computers, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software • The first outcry »

Just One Minute and My World Came Crashing Down

authored on Monday, March 19th 2007

Just yesterday I made a decision to reuse some of my old hard disks. Whistling that everything is beautiful in its own way, unplugged my current harddisk which doesn’t contain the Operating System (OS) and in goes the old harddisk.

Just flicked the switch on when SUDDENLY “Insert Boot Disk, Failed to detect Operating System” 8O

One will think ‘reverse what you do lah’! I did and still that fr***king error was still there.

This isn’t the first time and it isn’t everytime I plug an old HDD that will crash my computer. However it has always been my habit to backup before I mess with new hardware.

Backing up is crucial to one’s sanity. A wise man once said ‘you are as good as your last backup’. In other words, when your computer goes down, your life is back to the square of your last backup DVD (or VCD) found underneath your bed.

If you work online often, the internet could be your backup. But the internet do tend to crash too don’t they?

Catagorized under Computers, Hardware, Operating Systems, Uncategorized • 7 bellows & a yawp »