AGD's New PC
Topic: work
I was poised to install the new PC today, but unfortunately, something came up and I couldn't start before 1:30pm (had to fix Magdalena S/S PC), and AGD arrived soon after that, so my task was aborted as he told me he had some very important things to do.

Magdalena S/S PC
Topic: work
Subject PC wouldn't boot. Eng'r. Lapuz brought it back to the main office and I quickly cleaned out the accumulated dust. I think I harvested 10 kgs. of Sweet Potatoes!

It turned out that the PSU was busted. At least one (1) component, probably a capacitor, leaked out and the circuit board got wet. This was surely caused by overheating as the PSU Fan isn't spinning. I couldn't even turn it with my hands!

Good thing the Busted RadioRoom PC's PSU is still working, so I installed that as a replacement.

I also replaced the CPU Fan with the other Black Mapping PC's CPU Fan.

I spent around 4 hours on this PC (past 9am to past 1pm).

Posted by Samboy at 12:01 AM WST

Updated: Thursday, 3 March 2005 9:22 AM WST

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Mapping1 PC
Topic: work
DongG's PC suddenly wouldn't run VIEWER properly. Something has been corrupted, because it's the only Viewer-capable PC that gets this "Run-time error '5000': Valid object expected as argument", a google search for which doesn't return anything. :-(

I asked Rico to do the reinstall after I failed several tries, to no avail.

He suggested what I feared: reinstall the O.S. I gave the go signal and now they're still at it.

I had to relinquish the task to Rico because the Magdalena S/S PC had trouble booting and Eng'r. Lapuz wanted me to fix it by around 1pm.

APC UPS 650VA
Topic: work
When I asked Rey C. to bring to the Billing Section the newly delivered UPS units, I noticed that they were lighter.

I discovered that they're now smaller, even the batteries shrunk. :-(

No wonder their price whent down. :-(

AGD's Printer
Topic: work
BJC-2000SP black output was inconsistent, so AGD washed the cartridge under the faucet (!!!).

I tried to revive it, but it would print fine only on the first half of the Test Print.

Borrowed Atty. Mac's BC-20 (pure Black) and it worked fine (See "side story" about Atty. Mac's cartridge). None of the other "OLD" cartridges would work, so I asked Mrs. Lopez to throw them away.

Decided to replace BCI-21 cartridge with pure black BC-20.

AGD's New PC
Topic: work
Found out how to import/export OE Mail/Contacts.

I asked AGD when I can do the switch. He told me to do it on Wednesday while he's in the board meeting in Manila.

Atty. Mac's Printer
Topic: work
While troubleshooting AGD's printer problems, I tried to borrow Atty. Mac's BCI-21 cartridge, which was a replacement unit from last week. To my surprise, I discovered that the ink installed is now a BC-20 pure black unit! :-(

Mrs. Lopez told me that Atty. Mac asked for a new cartridge because someone allegedly used up the ink on the now missing cartridge. "NIPNAP DE!" was what he uttered, according to Mrs. Lopez.

So I asked him to return to me the BCI-21 cartridge, and he told me he'd find it first, then give it to me, but he never did give it to me.

AGD's New PC
Topic: work
Started 4pm, Finished installing O.S. and Office suite (same brand) after 6pm, including activation.

On vacation leave tomorrow, will resume on Monday.

Will research on importing/exporting OE mail/contacts.

Nette's PC
Topic: work
Subject PC won't boot.

Cleaned it out for around 2 hours. Problem solved.
:-)

Atty. Mac's Printer
Topic: work
Replaced ink cartridge with the one from Liza's busted BJC-2000SP.

Spent about an hour troubleshooting it.