Oh man, this is really tiring for me...
My block leave after BMT was seriously wasted.
It's has been two weeks since I've been frantically fixing my friend's computer.
First screw up
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His computer could not boot up, not even the Power On Self Test... so I wagered that it was a problem with his memory, or his video card. I eventually found out it was the memory.
Took out three chips, two are PC100 double sided, 128MB each, one was PC133, single-sided 64mb.
Of all three, I choose the great 128MB Kingston SDRAM.
And it worked!!! Everthing was okay and then I dillied-dallied with his computer for a bit, before he took it back home.
And then he called me from home to say that...
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Second Screw Up
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His operating system crashed.
"$*%&$*^(#$(*$%(," I thought. Just how did it crash? Was it the movement that caused it to not work?
So I went to his home, and tried to revive it back to life. All I had was a Win98SE boot disk, two HUGE 80GB Seagate Hard Disk Drives, using the NTFS File System. And with a LOT of scattered bad sectors, it was a real chore testing the disk intergrity during FDisk, and a real waste of time when the Fomatting attempted to recover the bad sectors. Boy, the formatting program is a REAL turtle. Just why won't the utility skip the bad sectors?
In the end, I brought one Hard Disk Drive home. Cleanly Install it with an operating system should work...
Haha... to think how stupid I am... I thought it was easy when I used my OS to format and partition the HDD, but to install the OS on the formatted HDD when my own HDD is connected to the computer.
My friend's HDD was finally working again, and I detached the HDD and brought it to my friend's home with much anticipation. Until I realised...
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Third Screw Up
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The operating system cannot boot when attached to my friend's computer. After an analysis of the problem, I found out that the boot data is on my HDD, even though the OS are installed on different HDDs.
And I spend the sleepless night trying to get his computer to boot again....
It was all in vain. I left in the wee hours of the morning, and reached my home. I turned the door handle only to see....
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Fourth Screw Up
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I was locked out. Parents, sister was asleep, brother was out at chalet. Not wanting to awaken my father and his wrath (he hates insufficient sleep) through ringing the door bell, or calling home, I wandered a while... and did some thinking...
With four hours left before I needed to leave home for the movie marathon, I formated the HDD through my OS (again), made two partitions and installed two operating systems, WIN98 SE and then Win XP Pro over it. haha... everything was perfect, except for the fact that I had to forsake my first movie, "National Treasure", and treated my sister to the movie because the ticket was already booked.
The boot data is finally in his HDD, and I installed two OS to allow any fallback.
I swear, everything worked, and I was quickly installing the patches, programs and such... with two hours left on my watch.
Then my friend asked me to install the second SDRAM chip to increase his computer memory.
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Fifth Screw Up
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Yeah, another one here..... the added SDRAM, unluckily, corruptted my Windows XP. The damage was irreversible, and i could really see my friend getting really pissed at the computer cock ups...
I thought about loading Win98SE instead of XP Pro (Two OS remember?), but... WIN98SE could not load. The different File Systems for the paritions I created, namely FAT32 for WIN98SE, and NTFS for WIN XP Pro, was the final blow.
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Sixth Screw Up
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But that was not it... I was really late for the movie : Blade Trinity, and left my home at 2.30pm after a quick shower and change of clothes.
Took a Transcab taxi, and got a little taste of something to calm my nerves called... TV Mobile. The ride was very eventful, the taxi driver talked quite a bit, mantaining a constant speed of 60km/h. I guess, safety is first on her mind in the rainy weather, but I swear man, the whole ride seemed like a circus show in the middle of a very very long jam in the city area...
My late became very late, and I reached Plaza Singapura's Cinema in time to...
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Seventh Screw Up
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Screw Up Again. Late for my movie, the action was already starting, and I had to get the attention and irritation of the upper half of the hall to get into my seat...
On top of that, my head felt heavy all the while from lack of sleep. Everytime I bend down, my head feels like it's anchoring to the ground and won't get up. I looked real bADDd for the occasion on that day...
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Argh.... my faults are really getting the better of me. Tardiness, the always wonderful ability to cock up, and the present procastination to rectify it...
Must "admit it, learn from it, and never do it again..."
Thanks for the quote man...
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