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Hard disk weak sectors keep on increasing

*********** — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 21:55:49 +0800

Hi.

I am using Acer Aspire 5750G, its age is around 2 months old.
All this while my laptop has no problem.
But yesterday it suddenly starts giving me a weird problem.

Its hard disk, a Toshiba 640GB is being reported by Hard Disk Sentinel to has some weak sectors, and 2 bad sectors.
I'm pretty sure this just started yesterday because I regularly check my hard disk performance.

At the start, there were only 100 weak sectors.
After every 1 to 3 minutes, it increase about 1 to 3 more weak sectors.
Now at the time I write this letter, it shows that the harddisk already has 846 weak sectors on its surface.
And what worry me is, now it increases about 10 weak sectors in 1 minute! Worse than yesterday.
To add some more, my laptop is now acting awkward; laggy.

What should I do now?
I tried to find Toshiba diagnostic utility but there's none from this company.
I already backed up important data in case of failure later.
Is it possible at this point to claim for warranty from where I bought this laptop?

I hope someone can guide me to get through this problem.

Thank you.

/k/

*********** — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:22:36 +0800

Is it a good idea?

*********** — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:02:15 +0800

Hi.

I want to ask, is it a good idea to use my LCD Screen Cleaner liquid to clean my DSLR lens?

p/s: Sorry if this question has been asked before.

Problem with printing

*********** — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:07:09 +0800

Hi.

I need help with printing.

I am using Canon PIXMA MP145 printer + CISS for about 1.5 year already.
Lately my printer is printing wrong color than what I want.

Here is the image for before (softwork) and after (scanned) the print.

I'm can't remember when was this started but was not less than 2 months ago.

Any help?
Have any idea to tweak so the color is printed correctly?

I need to print my flayers urgent..

Problem with new laptops

*********** — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:22:48 +0800

Hi guys.

The story is like this.

In February my brother bought a laptop. Acer 4740G.
In May I bought a laptop. Acer 4745G.

Today I checked both our laptop punya Product Key.
I'm quite surprised that our laptop have the same key.

And then I uninstall our preinstalled PK.
I try to install PK that is provided under the laptop.
But when trying to do so, it show me error, saying the key is not a valid Windows 7 key.
Both laptop displaying the same error although I try to install the key specified under both laptop.

The preinstalled key installed in our laptop is VQB3X-*****-*****-*****-***** which also can be found in Google.
And Microsoft said it is Genuine, but it's not the one specified under our laptop body.

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What should I do?
Should I claim the warranty and get our own new Product Key?

Network adapter problem

*********** — Thu, 20 May 2010 22:40:35 +0800

Hello.

I have a problem with my on-board Network Adapter.
This picture describes the problem.

I have tried:
- reinstalling /update driver
- disable Wireless LAN USB
but the problem persists.

What else should I do?