New notebook PC
Topic: work
Finally decided on my office notebook PC, after more than a month of research and confusion.

Initially liked Toshiba, but it comes ONLY with XP Home. Another P8,700.00 for XP Pro is too much.

I was ready to settle for XP Home, but then heard nightmares about Toshiba's, especially those that came with Toshiba-brand HD's, so I searched for other alternatives.

Unfortunately, Fujitsu models I liked cost too much. The Lifebook S7011 was quoted at P112,000+, so I decided to go for the upgraded ThinkPad R50e.

I hope I can install linux on it without too much hassle.

Posted by Samboy at 4:12 PM WST

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AGD's New PC
Topic: work
Finally! This task is done. All I have to do now is to wait for any complaints from AGD. ;-)

He told Dinah he didn't want to adjust to a new O.S. but new boards nowadays don't support the older O.S. version anymore, so...

I switched his new PC with the old one at around 1:30pm. Had to clean the table first.

Now I'll have to clean the old PC so it's presentable to the new "owner." Have to reformat it, too, but that'll have to wait until AGD says he's satisfied with his new setup.

Atty. Mac's missing cartridge
Topic: work
2+ days have passed, and still there's no sign of the missing BCI-21 cartridge. :-(

Will ask Liza to call him and remind him again for me.

Great!
Topic: Viruses
Seems like no more viruses are being sent to us. Patak-patak na lang. :-)

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.