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[Help] Can not login Remitano

VinceCheong — Wed, 26 May 2021 17:40:54 +0800

I recently discovered that I couldn't login to the Remitano cryptocurrency exchange website. I’m a long term investor and have been keeping my bitcoin and some altcoins for about 2 years.

I’ve been using Remitano smoothly for a very long time. This is a real panic situation. After searching for solutions around Google. I noticed that Remitano has been blocked in Malaysia for some reasons, but that's not as important as how to login back to the exchange to make sure my digital assets remain unchanged. Please give me some advices.

Thanks.

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Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Vlpz0RSHQv...iew?usp=sharing

[WTB] Looking for TV => 80"

VinceCheong — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 00:03:24 +0800

So, I'm looking into selecting a new TV, but I really wouldn't know the bells and whistles of each of them, as compared to most of you guys who have their own personal experience or keen enthusiasm with TV tech.

I've sorta narrowed down between Samsung's UANU8000KXXM 82 NU8000, Samsung's QLED QA82Q60RAKXXM Q60, LG's 86UM7500 86 UM75 Series and Sony's 85X9500G.
I'm definitely open to more suggestions and will listen to everyone's personal opinion. So far, I don't know the "tech" behind each of these models as it all seems to have their own patented wordings for the "same" sorta quad core system to be running WebOS. (But don't quote me on that la, lol.).

I've considered putting aside the Samsungs from the selection because the panels I/O Ports are predominantly on the speaker right side, as compared to LG's and Sony's. I know that the SONY's 85x9500G has been discontinued and will be replaced by the 90H, but I still can find stock online for the older model sony. I'm also thinking of LG 86" one as a contender for the Sony's I've picked, with not much reasons to back up my decision.

I'd love to listen to your thoughts and opinion on what would be a better deal or worthwhile for the kind of 'tech' the TV comes with.
I don't think OLED would be something I'd consider because they're way too expensive and also don't come in sizes above 80", ALTHOUGH OLED is like THE reference point of TV pinnacle lol.

Recovering Files on Drive C after formatting x2.

VinceCheong — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 19:46:10 +0800

Ok,
So blur me was dumb and stupid, trying to fix a small software glitch on my MSI GF75 Thin 95C laptop with its Dragon Center, I dont know how I ended up reformatting or "recovering the system to how it was initially purchased"
and i forgot that I have about 150GB worth of video files from my trip last week that I'm thinking to recover.

Issue now is, I know i can easily recover most files if i reformat windows 10 once, but somehow i did it twice or three times, i think it's twice, and I can't seem to figure out how to recover the files/videos.

Any help, or data center services that you'd recommend? and what's its rough estimating price for the recovery?

WTS Mac Pro (Model before the CheeseGrater)

VinceCheong — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 21:44:49 +0800

Item(s): Mac Pro (Late 2013)
This would be a good deal for those in the video production line as a DIT, maybe? Can capture up to two(2) 4K streams and also eight(8) FHD with QTAKE.

Price: RM12,000 Negotiations are very much accepted

Warranty: Nil

Dealing method: COD

Location: KL, Cheras, Ampang, Klang Valley (be reasonable)

Contact method/details: PM or here.
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SPECS
3.0GHz 8-core with 25MB of L3 cache
16GB (4x4GB) of 1866MHz DDR3 ECC
Dual AMD FirePro D700 GPUs with 6GB of GDDR5 VRAM each
256GB PCIe-based SSD

Item(s) conditions: 9/10, moderate usage, mostly video editing and 3D rendering

Reason for sale:
Mac Pro cheese grater seems tempting, but main editor’s contract ended, project ended. Hence scraping a good workstation. Good for those that are doing DIT work with QTake.

Lens Cleaning?

VinceCheong — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 16:42:15 +0800

Hey guys,

So it's literally been a while since I've searched the net for places to where I can bring my lenses to service.
Last time I used to go to Mr Cheah at mutiara complex, but that was a LONG time ago. Not sure if that old sweet of an uncle is still there.

I just want to clean the damn fungus out of the lens that I bought from eBay.

Any places you'd recommend around KL area or Serdang area maybe?

The lenses I'm planning on servicing are the Mamiya M645 Sekor C range.

Thanks!

WTS: Hour Glass Voucher

VinceCheong — Sun, 27 May 2018 03:45:53 +0800

Item(s): MYR Thirty Three Thousand Cash Voucher for The Hour Glass Malaysia.

Package includes: Voucher Certificate

Price: MYR Thirty One Thousand

Dealing method: Bank Transfer OTC or COD

Location: Klang Valley

Contact method/details:PM or WhatsApp @ 017-three three one one six six eight
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Reason for sale: The model I’m looking for isn’t available from The Hour Glass.

Onkya AVR TX-NR89

VinceCheong — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 18:43:25 +0800

Ok, so I shot Onkyo several emails a few months later, and none of them replied, gonna try my luck here and see if anyone have faced the same issues before.

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My A/V Receiver qualified for the nationwide call-back over a defective internal hardware/chip, and I sent it to an authorised distributor/servicing center that I was redirected to previously "Hwee Seng (Electronics) Sdn Bhd".

When I received my AVR back from them, I was told that my HDMI board was replaced instead and nothing was mentioned about the initial hardware malfunction, as stated at http://www.intl.onkyo.com/support/contact/info.html. Now the issue(s) I'm currently facing is that it takes a brilliantly long time for my AVR to Start-Up the HDMI before detecting any signals from my Satellite Codec console or HDMI direct from my laptop, to a point this feels more like a hardware issue than a firmware fault.

Prior to this, I was able to receive audio/visual to my TV via the HDMI Pass through mode into the AVR when it's on stand-by mode, but recently I need to turn on my AVR just to receive audio/visual back to my TV.
My setup has always been the same and has never changed "Satellite Console>HDMI>>Onkyo TX-NR809>HDMI>>TV"

So, what are my recommendations or troubleshooting steps I should do to tackle this persistent issue?
It's definitely not my Satellite Console provider problem, or my TV problem. My cables are 100% working condition.

Do I have to send it back to the authorized dealer for repairs? and IF it was the HDMI hardware which they replaced, am i supposed to bear the cost of the parts, should the scenario that my AVR's 'network chip' wasn't changed by the service center i sent to?

Thank you

[WTS] OPPO X9009MY F1 Plus Gold

VinceCheong — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 02:37:19 +0800

Item(s):
OPPO F1 Pls (X9009MY) Gold
http://www.oppo.com/my/smartphone-smartphone-f1-plus#page1

Package includes:
Phone only, as is.
Tempered glass, with small chip at the corners
Transparent phone cover

Price:
RM1200 Nego

Warranty:
NIL, but assume warranty end before Q2, 2017

Dealing method:
COD

Location of seller:
KL, Subang Jaya

Contact method/details:
PM preferably

Age of item:
Slightly less than 1 year

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Item(s) conditions:
Phone 9.999/10, but logically nothing is 10/10 once it's out of the box

Picture:

Reason for sale:
Acquired from a friend (from company lucky draw), used as test device for app development for about 1 week, now left on the shelf to take random selfies or collecting dust.

[WTA] Servicing P8Z68 V/Gen3

VinceCheong — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 18:16:44 +0800

Hi again,

I've got a question, does anyone know where or whom I can approach to service/check my old ASUS P8Z68 V/Gen3 LGA1155 Motherboard? To see if it's fully functioning and etc? ANd also the rough estimated prices I'm looking at?

I do not like my current temporary MOBO that I bought here because it feels weird.

Thanks!

[WTA] WD MyCloud EX2 Ultra

VinceCheong — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 18:12:42 +0800

So I pulled the trigger and went for a data backup/archive solution with WD"s NAS for their RAID1 function, more specifically the MyCloud EX2 Ultra 16TB series.

My question is that anyone experienced with it "overheating" or just getting really hot in general? I'm worried it might affect ware and tear and also depreciate the HDD itself since it's SO HOT, probably within around 40~53 Degrees Celcius range...

I'm thinking of getting like a laptop fan, pry it open and just power the fan off the USB of this NAS storage.

1155Mobo?

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

1155Mobo?

VinceCheong — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 17:02:53 +0800

Ok, so apparently I've been told that my ASUS P8Z68 V/Gen 3 has some issue, thus I cannot go past POST.
Anyone know where I could get another mobo like this or somewhat similar around the market?
I know it's kinda obsolete or gone from the face of the earth, I just don't wanna pull the trigger to get a set of Proc+mobo+ddr4s for my rig...

If plan A fails, Plan B, i'm still contemplating between 6700k or 6800k?

Unable to POST

VinceCheong — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 17:07:06 +0800

Do bear in mind, if everything passes POST, everything works like normal.

For now, issues I'm facing are either the red light being displayed for CPU or MemOK during boot up, no POST beep distress sounds or anything, during start up.
My temporary way of going around this issue is that I press the MemOK button for three seconds then it does its magic and sometimes boots up into Windows, then everything works as per usual.
When after a possible POST, I try to access bios, but when in bios, I can't even use my mouse or keyboard to navigate through it.

The things I've done,
Disconnected everything and reconnected everything.
Reseat the cup and all cpu/chassis fans.
All my rams are working find because I've tested them on another rig.

So what am I exactly facing here? A retarded rig? A problematic mother board? Or am I missing out something here.
Help.

[WTA] Windows Explorer Navigation Pane

VinceCheong — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 07:23:16 +0800

Hi YB Sifu sifu! lol

Introduction
Ok so I just finally got myself a WD MyCloud EX2 Ultra (known as "WDMYEX2U" thereinafter) NAS 16TB lapsaptong to dump and archive all my data . Not too sure how to freaking use it since I'm all greek and new to NAS.

Here's the question:
After I've set up everything, connected my WDMYEX2U to a TP-LINK gigabyte switcher (with internet access), and from switcher to my desktop.
Went to My Computer and on the Navigation Pane (Known as "the side" thereinafter), we should have our usual Favourites, Libraries, Homegroup, Computer and Network right? Initially I could see my WDMYEX2U under the Network tab at the side, but then after a while [no idea what i did, or whether did i do something to screw things up] it's not showing on the side anymore, it only shows my Local Desktop name and WDMYEX2U just vanishes from it. How do i set it up to make it APPEAR there back in the side of the Windows Explorer???

The Work-around
I mean it's no problem for me to find a workaround, I could go cmd or star menu and just type "\\192.168.xxx.xxx\" or "\\MyCloudEX2Ultra\" for me to open it.
But it's more for my family to access the NAS without much hassle.

Attachment(s)
Left window does not show the Network drive. Right window shows Network drive of WDMYEX2U after manually accessing it via CMD.
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Nikon D90, sensor hot/stuck pixel

VinceCheong — Sat, 23 Apr 2016 17:53:31 +0800

Hi, so I've did a short time lapse at Redang with my D90, and when I complied the image sequence, I saw a presence of an annoying bright/dull green dot on the same exact spot on my photos. Thought the sensor was too hot after a period of timelapse, but when I checked some photos a few days prior to my discovery of the green dot, it's also present on those normal photos.

I shot in both NEF and JPEG, and a number of few ISOs. The problem is still there.

How do I fix this Hot/Stuck pixel? Can any one recommend a fix for this, before resorting to a camera technician, eg Cheah's.

Thanks!

External Archiving

VinceCheong — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 17:57:15 +0800

Hi guys, so I'm thinking of consolidating my work and archive them properly. I mean buying 5 1tb/2tb external WD2.5" is a way, but I think it's just too messy for me, or I just don't know how to archive them properly.

I need some recommendations for an archiving system or styles (to be fairly organized), and also on the hardware to get.

Based on my signature below, all the necessary rig information is provided.
I'm thinking of looking for an external HDD bay with RAID controller so I can connect to my rig via an eSATA cable (better than USB3.0 as i've heard).
And maybe getting 2 or 4 HDD? either 2TB, 3TB or 4TB?

I'm thinking of going for RAID10, but then again, I'm only doing it for archiving purposes that doubles as a back up. So, what RAID setup should i be focusing on? 0, 1, 3, 5, 10?
Definitely not RAID0 lol, since internally I'm already running on RAID0 for my video work.

Let's say my budget is RM1.5k ~ 2k, what sort of recommendations or suggestions would any kind fellow like to advise on?

Thank you in advance!!!

BB1M Vouchers

VinceCheong — Sun, 05 Apr 2015 03:15:47 +0800

I apologise if i'm in a totally wrong thread.
I don't know which other should I ask in, since these vouchers are somehow related to education materials and essentials.

I've heard of people using their vouchers to buy like External HDD or SSDs, I'd like to know is this possible? If so, where can i get those, especially on SSDs...

Cheers

Windows Audio problem?

VinceCheong — Fri, 27 Mar 2015 02:43:25 +0800

Ok, I need help on my issue, every now and then my windows audio just dies on me... Like I have no sound... (when you click on the volume mixer) there's just no sound... My only work around to this issue is to RUN services.msc.. and restart Windows Audio

is there like a fix, or where should i find how to solve the root to this issue?

GTX970 or?

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

GTX970 or?

VinceCheong — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 01:43:03 +0800

Ok, so I think my current GTX560ti sorta died on me, my computer screens went glittery/glitchy and BSOD appeared during start up...

Sending my faulty GPU for repair isn't recommended by my friends right? So I'm thinking of the GTX970? I do a bit of gaming on dota2/CSGO mainly, and work on Premiere and Resolve for video editing. Which 970 is the best value to performance or is recommended? Or should I be looking at something else that's better or value for performance?

And would it be ok for the current PSU I'm using now, or I need to change my PSU too in order to run the 970/something similar?

Thanks... Idk if it's relevant, but let's say my budget is 1.3-1.5k? Maybe? (For the gpu la)