Yesterday I went to SIM LIM Square to get my graphic card. The manufacturer’s price and the dealers price are almost the same so I decided to let the dealers be a little bit richer than the manufacturers. In case of faulty items, its just 2hr bus ride from my house to that place.

While I may be lost with my techie side for a few weird years of my life, I do keep tracks of the latest development whenever a computer software/hardware problem arises. As it is, it took me 3 days to read up on the different graphics card out there in the market, compatibility and also price hunting.

While I was happily marauding my second most favourite shopping area, I didn’t realise the attention my little sister and I were drawing uh.. I was drawing. My little sister looks totally in place amongst the geeks while I was dressed in a sunny and cute flaring skirt and my shirt with my heels.

Yup, I looked like a total bimbo.

It was not surprising that no one was helpful enough to sell me and give me counter proposal for my graphic cards. Almost all the shops I went to, they just give me the prices and mind their own business instead of waiting on me.

HELLO!! Bimbo looking doesn’t mean I am a total airhead!

But in the end I got the graphic card I wanted from a nice HELPFUL saleswoman who gave me many counter proposals with lots of good discounts on all my purchases.

However there was a moment when I was stopped by two uni students who were doing a survey for their thesis. The questions they asked were nothing that a university student should be asking. WHY would I ever want to pay for an anti-virus while I can get it for free? Updating them everyday and doing scans weekly are the steps to prevent those pesky virus, worms etc from affecting your PC.

They were shock when I told them my age and currently working. They were expecting another student and too bad for them, they had this geek in bimbo suit instead. They don’t even know that you can counter the virus, worms, trojans manually when your anti-virus died on you in the attack.

AND they are IT university students?!! *face slams*

If these are the types of people that the university are passing out in the future, the world is going to be filled with air-heads and smug morons who know nothing of the world outside their little realm.

My computer is finally up and running after days of banging.. uh I mean repairing it. I can’t really remembered what I did to make it… oh!! I remembered.

First the RAM died, got a new one, plugged it in and it didn’t want to boot up properly. Then I had to reset the BIOS to default setting and then it worked.

After the successful boot up, my internet connection didn’t want to work. I tried everything up to using winsox and everything. Still didn’t work. I had to hijack my brother’s network card and then it worked.

A week later, it died again. I was frantic and almost cracked my head on the wall. In the end I realise it was the modem problem. Guys, you are experiencing Limited Connection/No connection and you are using ethernet connection, this is the solution.

Turn off your modem using their on/off button and then off the mains. Then unplug the power adaptor or your modem n leave it off for a minute. Plug everything back in and turn it on.

It should work nicely.

Today my beloved 5 year old desktop once again nearly drive me to the ER. At 7.45am this morning, the machine glared at me with its black screen and demanded that I replace its missing ntldr file.

Like how was I suppose to know what in the world is a ntldr file? After much thought, I think I realised the cause of the error. It was my virtual world I made last night to rectify my problematic game. What made it worse, I couldn’t log into the Safe Mode to deactivate the virtual mode. Smart.. I know.. I should have made a manual switchover button/ command that I can access through the MSDOS.

I had tried calling for my Technical Geek of a brother but as usual, 8am is way too early for the hibernating walrus to wake up. It was a panic attack as I scrambled to my laptop and Google the answer to the error. Most of the helps made it worse until I read one of the forum posts.

Below was how I solved my missing ntldr file:

(only for Windows XP)

1. Put in your Windows XP CD and restart your PC
2. Once they boot up from your CD by pressing F8 once it hits the boot up screen.
3. Next you should see a blue screen with Windows XP logo on the top bar. (the process may take a while) Press ‘R’ for Recovery Console
4. You will be moved into DOS. A screen will ask which windows installation you’d want to repair. In my Case its 1, press ENTER.
5. Type the Administrator password, and then press ENTER.
6. Type in cd \ and press ENTER.
7. Type Map and press ENTER.
8. Take down which drive is your CD-ROM. for example if e:\ is your CD-ROM, than that is your drive.
9. Type in the below codes:
   1. copy drive:\i386\ntldr c:\  (eg. copy e:\i386\ntldr c:\)
   2. copy drive:\i386\ntdetect.com c:\
10. If you are prompted to copy Press Y.

NOTE: In these commands, there is a space between the ntldr and c:\, and between ntdetect.com and c:\.

Then I reboot my PC and its back to normal!! Wee…

Oh yeah if you are using Deamon Lite Tools Virtual CD-ROM, disable it every time you have finished using it, else the same error may occur. But in my case, I have to disable my Virtual World that I had programmed so meticulously last time.. hehehe

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I am currently searching for the best web hosting service. I am quite Ok with the current one I am having but the rates they are giving me is making me grit my teeth. For almost 2 or was it 3 years.. they have never once gave me a discount to entice me into further using their service.

In fact recently their servers crashed and disrupted my hosting and inevitably my company’s email system. It caused a major mayhem and my boss was not a happy bunny. We were inaccessible to our customers. Even though we had faxes, we weren’t able to send massive documents and pictures through our phone line.

Momentarily, we were in the dark. In the end during the dark hours, we had to smile and apologise to our customers for the breakdown. Let me assure you, an angry unsatisfied customer mob screaming at you is not a great way to end your day.

Therefore, I am hunting for other web hosters… Gr..

My beloved desktop PC nearly gave me a heart attack. It insist on not cooperating with me and stubbornly refused to boot up. There was no light, no alarm, except for the whinning sound of the fan. I had thought my power supply or motherboard had died on me again.

The stress was close to sending me to a hospital. I hate waking up to a horrible morning with a dead PC on my desktop. So at 9am, I unplug every cable accessories to my PC and lugged it into my dad’s bike and vroomed off to my favourite computer repair shop.

Luckily the shop was opened and after an hour of watching the technicians fussing and vacuuming (yes vacuuming!!)  my PC, my darling finally woke up from slumber and whirred to life. I was so very happy that I nearly hugged the my friend over the counter. The last I visited them to bring my PC to the ICU, I had to burn a few hundred in my bank account. Furthermore, I’m so going to get the PC that she was selling as a new set.

Then as my dad and I headed back home with my darling resting comfortably at the front, I caught sight of an enraged motorcyclist couple quarreling on a road shoulder. They had parked their bike and was on the road side, quarreling loudly and pushing each other to the road. Not really sure why they were quarreling but the guy really had a huge chin acne on his face.

So many eventful things happened within 2 hours and its not even noon yet!

Sick and tired of those irritating pop up ads whenever you turn on the internet? Really hated and despise of entertaining irritating fake ‘Security Alert” windows that dings from your task bar? Gritting your teeth as you swear at the idiot who caused the inability to turn on your REAL anti-virus?

Don’t bother slamming your head onto your desktop. I have the simplest solution.

A few days back, one of my family members unknowingly fell into the “Security Alert” malwares. Ever since then, the irritating application turns on every available minute to remind us that we have trojans, virus and all that sorts in my computer. It’s a messy job to clear up the registry but it only took me 5 mins to download the Anti-Malware program to end this war.

Malwarebytes.org is the best thing that can ever appear on the Internet World. It is somewhat like Spybot but instead of massacring Spywares, it destroys Malwares. It is recommended by Cnet so don’t worry about it being fake applications.

You just need to install the Malwarebytes software, update it to its latest updates and then run it. You’d be amazed at the beauty of what this baby can do. Even your super-dooper anti-virus can’t beat this honey.

To download the free version, you just need to click here.

Remember after you have cleaned your computer of these pesky pests, make sure that you weekly update them and scan your computer! Never be complacent!