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Painful Waiting Time to Boot Up Laptop

Friday, December 5th, 2008

I really have to throw this out (rant about it)! The office laptop, HP nc6000, that I am currently using right now is getting from bad to worse. Christmas is coming to down, and Santa Claus is checking if you (laptop) are good or bad. And the answer is, it's ...

Home Laptop Configuration

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Shown on the right is the memory configuration of my Dell Inspiron 5150 Laptop. Indicated here is a 512 MB memory ram utilising CPU-Z application, downloaded from the CPUID site. Powered by Samsung chip, it can run up to a maximum of 133MHz, with its PC2700 memory module. The date that ...

Work Laptop Configuration

Monday, September 1st, 2008

The screen-shot (shown on the right) is a configuration of my work laptop, using CPU-Z application. As it can be seen, the memory is running on a PC2700 133MHz memory chip, manufactured by Infineon late in 2005. Is there a way to power up or increase the memory chip processing speed ...

Bought a New Western Digital Hard Disk Drive

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Due to hard disk failure on my Dell laptop, I decided that maybe it is time to get a new hard disk drive. Last Saturday, I scrambled over Sim Lim Square, an IT shopping mall full of electronics and computer accessories, to compare prices of laptop-sized hard disk drive. The specification ...

Hard Disk Data Backup In Progress

Monday, August 4th, 2008

After spending some diagnosing the breakdown of my laptop system, I found that the contribution factor could be my hard disk drive. After checking out the faults using a couple of old hard disk drives and some laptop systems lying elsewhere, it seems to me that the my Fujitsu 60GB ...

Dell 5150 Laptop Finally Crashed

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

When the time has come for the system to go, it has to go. This morning, when I switched on my personal Dell 5150 laptop, something went wrong. At first, the system could not boot up. It hang at the BIOS screen. Then, I felt, oh dear.... this does not look ...

My Nokia 3310

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

I cannot remember since when did I own this mobile phone, but the Nokia 3310 has been with me for a long time. Despite the latest gadgets and innovation in today's mobile phone, I still fancy using the Nokia 3310, as it left a deep impression as the most durable ...

Benox Cup Warmer – A Cool Christmas Present

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

I did not have time to write about this; I attended a poolside barbecue last Saturday, organised by a colleague of mine. It was partly to celebrate for Christmas, and also as a farewell party. It was really nice of him to have invited me over, and I am honoured ...