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[NEED HELP] Repair PS2 Slim

adammale — Mon, 07 May 2018 20:17:47 +0800

Hi,

I have an old PS2 Slim need to be repaired, probably lens problem. Any shop in Lowyat that still repair PS2 & how much would it cost?

TQ

Vote for KL in this fast-dealing PROPERTY game

adammale — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 17:24:26 +0800

Since this is related to property talk (and gaming) I think we should at least vote for our beloved city too, right, making it a prominent property hotspot one should never miss out, even in a boardgame.

MONOPOLY is having their 80th Anniversary this year and will be celebrating it by having the MONOPOLY HERE & NOW which will give Kuala Lumpur a chance to be a property on the board!

Let's vote for Kuala Lumpur! @ http://votemonopoly.com/

Voting will end on the 10th of March.

big iphone 3gs problem!

adammale — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:41:59 +0800

hye everyone...i just got my iphone 3gs yesterday. i've tried to jailbreak my iphone using blackrain. after i turned off my iphone and restart it, it goes to recovery screen. then i do blackrain again. now after several turning off and on my iphone, it stucked on the recovery screen, i tried to turn it off but it won't turn off no matter what. add to that, now my pc doesn't even recognized my iphone connected via usb. i'm freaking scared now. what to do?

Need Help To Upgrade CPU and Video Card

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 07:30:00 +0800

Need Help To Upgrade CPU and Video Card

adammale — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:30:39 +0800

Hi, I'm looking forward to upgrade my PC by next week but would like to get some advise on my choices

(Current System)
Motherboard: ASUS M2N-E SLI (Socket AM2, DDR2)
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 BE-2300 @ 1.9GHz
Video Card: ASUS NVidia GeForce 8500GT 512MB DDR2 128 bit
Memory: 2GB RAM

(Wanted System)
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual 7850+ (Socket AM2+) @ 2.8GHz, 3MB Cache - RM218
Video Card: XFX NVidia GeForce 9800GT/DDR3 512MB 256Bit - RM365

I was wondering whether my motherboard support socket AM2+ or not.
And also, can I only upgrade my video card and keep the CPU or will it bottleneck the performance?
Is these two upgrades worthwhile?
Do I need to upgrade my power supply or RAM as well?

Sorry for so many questions. Thanks in advance!

Motherboard: http://www.afterdawn.com/hardware/product_.../asus_m2n-e_sli
Graphic Card: http://www.dealtime.co.uk/xPF-ASUS-ASUS-EN...deo-Card-Retail

From what I read: AM2+ CPU can be put into AM2 socket: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_AM2%2B
And that, DDR3 Graphic Card can't be put into DDRS mobo..: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qi...09231450AAEZ5vH

Monitor Big Problem

adammale — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:12:31 +0800

After I changed something in my PC BIOS, my monitor became like in the picture, which I cannot read anything or see anything.

However, even after I reset my motherboard bios to default by removing the cmos battery for several minute, the problem still occur. help!

THE SIMS 3

adammale — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:44:14 +0800

THE SIMS 3

Feature 1: Explore a Seamless, Living Neighborhood
In The Sims 3, your Sims’ lives no longer revolve around the home. Open the door and discover a new town alive with possibilities. Every Sim has a unique personality including your Sims’ neighbors, co-workers, and friends. Your Sims can meet new neighbors on a brisk morning jog; visit their best friend’s home for a dinner party, take the family for a day of sun in the park, or even take that hot new Sim they’ve met for a romantic sunset picnic on the beach. Cultivate life-long friendships and stormy rivalries. As you explore your Sims’ surroundings, who knows what might happen! Your Sims might run into an ex-boyfriend or girlfriend, a long lost pal, or a fierce rival. The town is open for your Sims to explore! *The neighborhood itself has a personality, created in part by the unique personalities of the Sims. Will you create a soccer mom who lives with her family in the suburban subdivision not too far from town? Or a wealthy businessman who owns a spectacular mansion in the hills overlooking the sea? The choices are yours; you can change the neighborhood into whatever you want it to be. (The Sims 3 probably follows Spore step in becoming an offline multiplayer game. This feature could be tracked back to Space Rangers where other characters are not static and continue their lives without you directing them)

Feature 2: Create a Sim
Create Sims who look like you or anyone you know. The all-new Create a Sim is easy to use and more powerful than ever, letting you completely personalize your Sims’ appearances and personalities. *Fine-tune every feature on your Sims face, customize their hair color, select the exact shade of their skin tone, and determine much more to make realistic Sims. Outfit your Sims with infinite fashion, make-up, and accessory styles. It's never been easier to make Sims that are thin, full-figured, muscular, and everything in between!

Feature 3: Personality Traits System
Designate your Sims' personality based on an innovative trait system. Select from dozens of personality traits and combine up to five traits to make a variety of interesting characters, who live in the neighborhood. Will you create an idealistic, creative dreamer who relishes taking risks thanks to his daredevil streak? Will you make an insensitive, drop-dead gorgeous socialite who neglects her romantic side and whose deepest secret is that she is actually a certified genius? It’s entirely up to you. (This is more like the way we interpret ourselves in networking sites like Myspace, Friendster or Facebook. Some of the known traits are Computer Whiz, Absent Minded, Excitable, Anti-TV, Schmoozer, Party Animal, Unflirty, Flirty, Party Animal, Rude, Lucky, Evil, Light Sleeper, Heavy Sleeper, Inappropriate, No sense of Humor, Friendly, Mean Spirited, Insane, Kleptomaniac, Paranoid, Brave, Hates Kids, and Genius )

Feature 4: Customize everything about your Sims’ homes
Design and build homes with complete freedom to customize everything and make your very own neighborhoods. Infinite possibilities to design the interior furnishings of your Sims. Select any color pattern for your furniture that you can imagine. Match all your furnishings with the same pattern & color, or mix patterns & colors of the furnishings to create your very own look. The possibilities are endless for creating your Sims home of their dreams.

Feature 5: Gameplay
There’s more to your Sims’ lives in The Sims 3. Enjoy the challenge of short-term and long-term goals and then reap the rewards! Based on personality traits, skills, and career choice, your Sims have short and long term Wishes that provide constant fun challenges—things to do and achieve. You have the ultimate freedom to choose whether (or not!) to fulfill their destiny, giving them lifetime happiness and rewards! *Will your Sim attend the right training exercises, salute the right military personnel, and skyrocket from a lowly Latrine Cleaner to a high-flying Astronaut? Will they hit the sports stadium, impress the talent scouts, and make winning plays that catapult them from a Rabid Fan to Sports Legend? Maybe your Sim will perfect their guitar skill, headline concerts, and be worshiped by legends of fans who propel them from the life of a Roadie to Rock Star status. Your Sims’ destinies are up to you!

Feature 6: Movie-making!
Be the Director of your Sims' movies! Never before have you been able to make your own movie with a cast, a set, soundtrack, a story and editing without leaving the game. Now you can with the movie making mash up tool set. Make a movie and share it with the world! (More customizable than The Movies - the actors, the actresses, the clothes, there are so many customization to fulfill your lifetime dream to be budding machinima creator! But facial emotion and body language is yet to be confirmed)

For more info on The Sims 3, visit its official site at http://thesims3.ea.com/

More details from Wikipedia
The entire game is played in real-time, so Sims that the player is not using will still age and may get married, have children, and/or gain other memories and experience other events. With the absence of loading screens, it is possible to zoom in and out from a complete view of the neighborhood to the inside of a house.

Of the eight needs of The Sims 1 & 2, only four - bladder, hunger, energy and fun - will remain. These will be completed by moodlets - attributes which are acquired by special events (minor events like tooth brushing, and major ones like wedding), and affect the Sims' behavior. The Want and Fear system of The Sims 2 is replaced by Wishes and Opportunities. *Several features from The Sims 2 expansion packs will appear in the original The Sims 3, such as the "young adult" life stage and mobile phones (University), private cars (Nightlife), fishing (Seasons) and jewelry (Bon Voyage).

Each career has a workplace building in the neighborhood, which Sims travel to for their shifts. Sims can also apply for jobs with these buildings. Though Sims are hidden inside buildings during the workday, the player can control their behavior at work to a certain extent. There are also part-time jobs. Sims can also take actions to increase their productivity while not at work, such as bringing work home or working overtime. (I wish mini games for career!)

Create-a-Sim is the character (Sim) builder, where the polygon 3-D models of Sims can be modified by changing a wider variety of properties than what was available in previous installments. This opens the door to creating completely unique Sims with regard to stature, height, weight, hair, and clothing. Players can customize nearly everything in the game, including furniture, clothes and shoes. *Toddlers have two traits, and a new one is added for each new life stage, until they reach young adulthood - so they will have five traits for the rest of their lives. In addition to this, individual fitness bars have been added to adjust the Sims weight and muscle. The player can now choose their Sims' favorite color, music type, food, etc. (You can customize your Sim s voice as well. You're given voice samples and from there simply adjusting the pitch gives you a unique voice. Your Sim's hair is also customizable, it is broken down into four basic regions: Roots, Base, Tips and Highlights. Each region can be colored differently using RGB palette)

Ideas for The Sims 3 expansion packs: The Sims 3 Ride (You can drive your car around the neighborhood, cruising with boat from shore to shore, flying a helicopter above the town. You can even help the police, ambulance and firemen helping other people, which in turn will open up more benefits for you to reap! And you can even join racing club!), The Sims 3 Underworld (You no longer restricted to live on land only, you are now able to live underwater and underground. You can also explore fantasy world with mermaids, elves, ghosts, witches and any underworld creatures you can think of), The Sims 3 Jungle (You see the jungle out there? Now you can explore it too. Be ready for a journey no Sims have ever take, in the jungle! Sightseeing, wildlife catalogue, camping, fishing, parachuting; the adventure is endless), The Sims 3 Bon Appetit (You can create your own recipe using different ingredients! You can own a restaurant and play mini-game like Diner Dash, hiring waiters, cashiers, chefs)

End notes: 1) Simlish language is a mixed of fractured Ukrainian, Tagalog and Navajo. 2) The Sims (a live action, drama fillm) is currently in preproduction by 20th Century Fox, written by Brian Lynch and produced by John Davis (of Norbit and Eragon) 3) The Sims expansion packs: Livin' Large, House Party, Hot Date, Vacation, Unleashed, Superstar, Makin' Magic 4) The Sims 2 expansion packs to date: University, Nightlife, Open for Business, Pets, Seasons, Bon Voyage, Freetime, Apartment Life 5) In The Sims 2, alien abduction can cause male pregnancy!

Need Advise On PC Upgrade

adammale — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:50:16 +0800

Hi everyone,

The usual question of what to get

My current spec
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 1.90 GHz
Motherboard: Asus M2N-E SLI
Video Card: Asus NVidia GeForce 8500GTS 512MB
2GB RAM.

If I stick with AMD
...change CPU to AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual 6000+ RM260 (I'm not into Phenom)
...so I can keep my current motherboard

But if I switch to Intel
...change CPU to Core 2 Quad Q6600 RM690
...which means I need to change motherboard to Asus P5Q series (not decided which model yet but price ranged between RM300 to RM700)

And must-haves are
...a new graphic card Asus NVidia EN9800GT 512MB DDR3 RM530 (Not into ATI Radeon too)
...1 TB Seagate 3.25" internal hard drive RM375 (because its 32MB cache and I don't believe in external HD anymore)

OR
Should I reconsider other Intel chipset and video card? Which motherboard should I get then if I want to switch to Intel? How about a new AMD motherboard? Is my 2GB RAM enough or should I add more?

I can't put my budget into numbers because I don't plan to maximize my PC spec by getting the best of the best product, and yet I don't want to just get the cheapest and live with it. The best words to describe my budget would be, "Preferably as low as it can go but still great enough to play recent game releases, hopefully in its best visual and smooth"

<help>how to use huawei usb modem on fedora 7

adammale — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:08:42 +0800

hi everyone. i've just installed fedora 7 into my pc for the first time. the reason is because i heard the internet speed is faster using linux and fedora 7 is the only linux copy i have in hand. however, i'm stuck on how to use huawei usb modem e220 on fedora. i tried to read all forums and googled it but i don't understand a thing cos it is something new to me. can anyone help me on step by step how to setup the modem? the os can't even detect the modem.

Ive also read about this somewhere

Connect your nokia phone with linux without pc suite!!
July 11, 2008

Connect your phone via datacable
open terminal & type

lsusb

now u will get the following output

owais@owais-desktop:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0421:0445 Nokia Mobile Phones
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:092f Logitech, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
owais@owais-desktop:~$

it is on my compter,ur will not be exactly the same…

Now note the line in which NOkia Mobile Phones is written…it has two number one is 0421 & other is 0445…we’ll take these numbers as 0×421 & 0×445

0421 is the Vendor ID & 0445 is the Product ID

Now enter this comand.

sudo /sbin/modprobe usbserial vendor=0x(vid) product=0x(pid)

eg, in my case::: sudo /sbin/modprobe usbserial vendor=0×421 product=0×445

Now enter this command

wvdialconf create
u’ll get a long output which will be like

Scanning your serial ports for a modem.
Port Scan: S0 S1 S2 S3
WvModem: Cannot get information for serial port.
ttyACM0: ATQ0 V1 E1 — OK
ttyACM0: ATQ0 V1 E1 Z — OK
ttyACM0: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 — OK
ttyACM0: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 — OK
ttyACM0: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 — OK
ttyACM0: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 — OK
ttyACM0: Modem Identifier: ATI — Nokia
ttyACM0: Speed 4800: AT — OK
ttyACM0: Speed 9600: AT — OK
ttyACM0: Speed 19200: AT — OK
ttyACM0: Speed 38400: AT — OK
ttyACM0: Speed 57600: AT — OK
ttyACM0: Speed 115200: AT — OK
ttyACM0: Speed 230400: AT — OK
ttyACM0: Speed 460800: AT — OK
ttyACM0: Max speed is 460800; that should be safe.
ttyACM0: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 — OK
Found an USB modem on /dev/ttyACM0.
Modem configuration written to create.
ttyACM0: Speed 460800; init “ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0″

NOw.. notice the output says that there is a modem at /dev/ttyACM0 & max speed is 460800

now enter this command

sudo gedit /etc/wvdial.conf

A file will open in text editor…now delete everything in that file & paste the following there

[Dialer Defaults]
Modem = Your Modem Name(eg, /dev/ttyACM0 in my case)
Baud = ur max speed(460800 in my case)
Init1 = ATZ
Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
ISDN = 0
Modem Type = Analog Modem
Phone = *99#
Username = username
Password = password
Stupid Mode = 1

save the file & you are done

NOw whenevr u need to connect…open terminal & type wvdial,,wait till some sort of IP adress is displayed like

pppd: �[06][06][08]` [06][08]
primary DNS address 218.248.240.135
pppd: �[06][06][08]` [06][08]
secondary DNS address 218.248.240.79
pppd: �[06][06][08]` [06][08]

Now you are connected….hit cntrl+c to dissconnect…

U can also create a laucher on desktop(application in terminal) & keep the command as wvdial..now double click it & u r connected

Your Perfect Phone

adammale — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:52:04 +0800

My perfect phone would be...

Brand: Nokia (the most compatible phone in Malaysia)
Camera: At least 5MP with Xenon Flash (can take the best pictures even in low light especially during clubbing)
Internet: WiFi, HSDPA, flawless web browser just like Safari in iPhone
Games: Support nGage games and emulators (oops)
Music: Audio jack on top of the phone, iPod like music player
Video:Can play movies - a really portable media player
Customizations: Ringtones, Wallpapers, Themes
Other features: Touch screen, video calls
Price tag: Cheap

Hopefully the next Nokia touch phone would fulfill my dream. Et vous?

GBA Emulator for PSP

adammale — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:33:55 +0800

I've searched for this topic here but failed, don't know whether can ask or not, but I wanna know which GBA emulator is the best for PSP? If there is already a forum for this, mind to show me the link? I'm looking forward to play some GBA games with my PSP Thanks in advance!

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N95 or iPhone?

adammale — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:30:32 +0800

It's been months I've been thinking about this and I still can not make a decision on which phone to buy, Nokia N95 or iPhone. The best feature of N95 is its 5MP camera whilst iPhone is its touch screen. Style point would certainly go to iPhone but I love taking pictures and videos at the same time. And most important is the price to justify which phone is the best. Anyone willing to help this confused future N95/iPhone owner?

Repeat Format Hard Disk

adammale — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:49:24 +0800

If I keep repeating formatting and reformatting my hard disk, will it cause any damage to the hard disk? Just today I already re-install Windows XP almost up to ten times due to technical problem that I'm facing.

Command to Change Active Partition from Console

adammale — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:03:50 +0800

HOW DO I MAKE AN XP PARTITION ACTIVE AS I CANNOT GET INTO WINDOWS TO USE THE DISK MANAGENT TOOL. I CAN GET TO XP RECOVERY CONSOLE BUT I DONT KNOW THE APPROPRIATE COMMAND TO MAKE PARTITION ACTIVE, OR IS THERE NOT AN APPROPRIATE COMMAND, WHICH SEEMS RIDICULOUS.

HELP! How to repair corrupted external hard drive?

adammale — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:42:46 +0800

Yesterday I have done two mistakes, turn on and off my external hard drive in a short period of time and also remove it from the computer without safely remove hardware because it always hang. Now it is unreadable and corrupted. Can anyone suggest me any software to use? Or is there any shop in Klang Valley that can fix, repair and recover data from a broken external hard drive? Any information and help would very much appreciated. I have too much important data in the 500gb external hard drive! Thanks in advance!

Which LEGO games is the best?

adammale — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:47:26 +0800

My vote to Lego Star Wars 1! The best!