Monday, October 22, 2007

Lega...

After months of wrestling with the laptop, watching it die, and subsequently being frustrated by sister's 'siput' computer, I finally solved the problem without too much cost. Asyik jam ajer, keja tak siap, nak download tak boleh. Frust aku!

Nekad ajer bukak casing tu, tengok kot2 boleh masukkan my HDD ganti the other one. Tengok2, tak muat plak. But at least ada la idea layout benda2 kat dalam tu.

I was contemplating to buy an external HDD and installing my ori Windows XP on it. Thot the 'ehem.. lanun copy on the comp was causing the constant jamming. Checked with IT advisor first and he pointed out that it won't do much good if the problem was the RAM. After much fiddling, found the size of RAM was 128 Mb. Dude pointed out 128 was too small for current softwares and suggested I upgrade it to 512 Mb. Benda alah memory stick tu pun I tak kenal rupa dia... Sabar ajelah.

Googled for info, gambar, installation instructions, etc. Pastu bukak casing lagi sekali, cabut benda alah tu bawak sekali pi kedai komputer. Nasib baik bawak. The 1st shop tanya - DDR1 ke DDR2? Alien language alert!! Paling senang, tunjuk benda alah tu kat dia. "Sorry, tak jual. Ini PC133 dah obsolete la..." Darn. Sumer kedai kat OU tu tak jual. Terpaksa jugakla pegi Digital Mall.

Nasib baik ada informant dah bagi tau kewujudan Digital Mall tu. Thanks, bro :-) Aku ni paling malas nak pegi Low Yat. Best gak round kat sana. Sempat la usya laptop baru semua boleh tahan murah. Cari punya cari, finally dapat la jugak beli RAM tambahan tu. Last kopek punya 256 Mb, RM105 je. Kira ok la tu.

So lepas Isya' kasi install dua2 sekali, dapat la 384 Mb RAM. Baru la boleh multitasking. Kalau tak, nak bukak Firefox + Words, sangkut. On Limewire, jam. Nak pasang lagu/Quran + Words, takleh. Pasang AV pun sangkut. AAARGGGHHH!!! Tension!! Camna nak buat keja. Asyik reboot ajer...

So now dah takde alasan kenapa aku takleh siapkan keja... Ahh.. Lega, rasanya...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

To be able to run Windows XP on 128MB of RAM? Thats surprising. But doable if like you said, tahan with all the hiccups...

Wishing you all the best with the new lease of life on the lappie... it should squeeze a few more years life.

Cheers and have a good week ahead!

Paus Biru said...

Thanks, dear.

Kalau 'keja' main game boleh la operate on 128 Mb RAM. Pasal dah tak tahan sangat la pegi merayau cari RAM tu. Nasib baik ada... My lappie still belum ok. At least I can work on my sister's PC for the time being.