Saturday, August 13, 2005

Another Computer(s) Resurrected

I think I havent posted it yet ... so I shall just post it now (DUH!)

For the past week, Ultra coy was posted at Marina@Carnival ... We were in charge of doing static displays. Khuan Loon, JX, Ant, and me were incharge of the HMG and the AGL and the Bushmaster Cannon. Lots of cute kids came about ... and some very old men. Had the privillege to meet a few guys who were the first batch of NS men ... :-X

And I did a lot of computer work there.

First was 2WO Toh's laptop. He was planning on selling it, but its operating system, no matter how he tried, couldnt load. Kept coming with a "NTLDR not found" error message. He told me he was like spending 4 hrs each day for 2 weeks .

So I was fiddling with the laptop to see whether could get it back to life... almost everything failed. So the next day, I brought my usual arsenal of CDs ... popped in EBCD and ran the memtest for the fun of it. (I didnt mention we formated at least 10 times and installed the OS at least a dozen times - We had time to kill) And poofed! Memtest should error messages on the RAM ... so I got out a jackknife and took out the screws and BINGO... the blasted CONFIGMG message disappeared and everything was good to go. Heh heh.

Now, MWO Eddie saw this ... and he told me, "Soldier, I have a laptop which aint functioning. I gave my Son-in-law who's a computer engineering grad and a capt and he cant solve it. I sent to NEC and they told me to get a new motherboard. I don't care whether you knock it, throw it around, just try to get it to work." Stunned. I plugged in the power supply, and the damn thing was comatosed. Not good. Stressed already.

I took out the jack knife again, and despite 2WO Toh's objections (cos' he already tried to change the RAM), I still unscrewed the damn cover, and removed a piece of the ram... AND IT WORKED! I'll be damned ... haha. I think it was a faulty RAM slot ... MWO Eddie was overjoyed ... haha. To say the least.

And just yesterday, my damn computer gave way. Shit. Couldnt fix it yesterday ... but just now just got it fixed. I still don't know what the problem was, but I had to remove the idiotic processor to get the thing working again. Thank god!

Then today went to Ant's house to fix his computer. Actually can, now cannot. (Pardon the singlish!). Seems like it starts ... then it stops. I have an inkling that the power supply is sluggish. Hence causing the power failure. This one is proving to be difficult. And I already accepted the $20 payment! (Cause' it was working OK when I left. Always the case.)

This week we're having long weekend !! TILL TUESDAY!! WOO HOO!! Haha ... SOC I'm left with one more ... one more Standard Obstacle Course to clear ... I broke my personal best ... quite happy. 9:12 ... still not under 9 ... but considered not bad ... haha.

Posted by Unknown at 8/13/2005 06:16:00 pm