Saturday, March 04, 2006

the hoohaa over pc upgrade

Over the one week hols, i've finally decided to kick myself and start pc maintenance. After sorting out my files, burning whatever tt's necessary into the CDs, I took the plunge and clicked system recovery. From there, a series of "incidents" happened, and i can nearly say "bye bye" to my one week of hols... T_T

1. after recovery, i switched on the com only to find all my files still there!!! to think i spent so many hours waiting!! @#!$!@#$!

2. after another recovery, i finally got a "clean" com (incidentally, the 2nd recovery took less than an hour.. haix.) As i am happily reinstalling my files, i realised i don't have 2 things -- 1. Microsoft office 2003, becoz apparently some1 tt i can't rmr nv return me; and 2. my printer driver!!!

3. got a copy of office from my friend. so i can now do my assignments... w/out the printer.

4. next day, my com suddenly refuse to connect to the internet!!! the guy from singnet says to open and adjust the lan card... but the hell!! y i can't open the damn cover???!?!

5. decides to bring my pc to the com shop downstairs... haix, i might as well upgrade my system lo...

6. spent 6 hours in the shop. apparently my lan card is integrated so there CANNOT be a misalignment of the card... and the shop keeper seems v interested why i can't connnect to the net?? Anyway, the prob solved on its own in 6hours, and i gotta fork out $299 for the additional 80GB HDD, 512MB RAM and the 64MB graphics card.

7. finally changed the faulty floppy drive in my old com myself... i can save files now!!! finally!! So tt means i can transfer files from the new com to the old for printing easily rite???

8. WRONG. when my old com floppy drive is functional, the new com's decided to die. haix.

9. Bought another floppy drive thinking tt i can install it in the new com myself. screw here, change there... done! ... eh? darn! stupid Compaq custom made their floppy drives so i can't push the button!!! @!#@$##%$^$

10. brought it down to the shop again to see what can be done. i mean, if i can't use the commercially available floppy drives i would want a refund rite? but luckily the guy made some alterations to the commercially available one and tada! can be used... though sometimes the diskette will get stuck...

And there marks the end of the major overhaul of my com. it better last for at least another 2 years man, otherwise all my time, $$ and effort are wasted!

P/s: the great thing now is, becoz my RAM is bigger, i can finally run MSN messenger, open Word, and play Maple all at the same time!!! muahahahaha~~~

華子 yawned @ 9:42 PM

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