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Acer Aspire 4741G

Elmo — Tue, 08 May 2012 09:01:25 +0800

Where can I find replacement battery for Acer Aspire 4741G? I live in Petaling Jaya.

Repair old iMac

Elmo — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 23:41:38 +0800

I'm looking to repair an old iMac (the one with the half-dome base). Authorized Apple stores say no more spare parts for this model. Problem: won't start - no power. Anyone can recommend place in PJ?

Recpmmendation for grooming

Elmo — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 23:37:58 +0800

I'm looking for a good groomer for our Sheltie in the PJ area. Anyone have good recommendations?

Unifi

Elmo — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:13:26 +0800

Are there charges for in the installation of the fire-optic cables into your home? If so, what are the rates?

Installing Shared Printer

Elmo — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:00:04 +0800

I have a HP 1300 printer connected to a desktop PC and shared. I was trying to install the shared printer on my notebook running Windows 7 64 bit. Clicking on the shared printer icon starts up Windows Update but it could not find the suitable driver. I went to the HP website (for HP 1300 drivers) to download the Universal HP PCL6 driver (windows 64 bit) which is a self-extracting file (.exe) and which will also install the driver, I suppose. Here is where I'm stuck. Starting from the install file, I simply could not find the printer to install, and starting from the shared printer, I can't find the .inf file in the extracted folder. Can some someone point me in the right direction?

Acer Aspire 4741G

Elmo — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 20:55:25 +0800

Recently I bought an Acer Aspire 4741G and discovered that the wireless LAN in this model has lower capability than its "older" model.

My Acer has the Broadcom wireless LAN. My friend who bought his (same model 4741G) has the Atheros wireless LAN.
I have a Linksys basic wireless-N router that has the max transmit speed of 150 mbps.

My friend's older Acer is able to connect at the max speed of 150 mbps, while mine can only connect at 65 mbps max.

He can connect to his home router at 300 mbps, and I suspect mine will only be able to connect at half that speed.

I feel kinda cheated, as I assume newer models should perform better, and not worse.

I like to know if others noticed the same problem.

Unable to see network connection

Elmo — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:58:40 +0800

I just bought a new Acer Aspire 4741G. According to the specs, it has the Acer Npilfy ™ 802.11b/g/n wireless capability.
I have a dual-band Belkin Play Max router which offers 2 separate wireless networks - the 2.4 GHZ and the 5 GHz.
Now the Acer detects and connects to the 2.4 GHz network, but it can't see the 5 GHz network. What gives?

Streamyx Webmail Problems

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Streamyx Webmail Problems

Elmo — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:11:50 +0800

For some months now, I have been trying the get the technicians from TM to solve my problem which they have not been able to solve.
Last month, a new problem (related or not, I have no idea) has come up. Maybe, some of our experts can help the poor fellas over at TM. Each time, they call, I'll repeat myself in explaining the problem(s), and they'll say they look into it --- but nada, nothing's solved.

The problem: for some weird reason, my mailbox at the Streamyx server shows 30% full (capacity: 10 MB) even when there is zero byte in all the folders including TRASH. Fiddling with the options did nothing. Expunge did nothing. When the problem started, it was 28% full; now it's 30%.

Now, when I log in the TMNet Webmail, I see this message in the inbox: "This folder contains no message" even when there are new messages. Right now, it shows that there is 250K in the inbox folder. And when I download my messages with my mail client (Thunderbird); it will show 30% full on empty.

The first problem is annoying in that I have in effect only 70% capacity in my mail server.
The second problem is frustrating in that I can't check my messages on the road (which I had been doing through Webmail).

Anyone can help?

New PC Recommendations

Elmo — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:54:58 +0800

Looking for new pc for home office

budget = RM 5K

use for: working with graphics, photo-editing, producing newsletters, magazines, some video-editing

purchase date = now

brand preference = dell, willing to consider other brands, or local dealers/assemblers

life=expectancy of new system = 3-5 years

present networking infrastructure - peer to peer via router, streamyx 1Mb

OS = windows 7 OEM

No audio in Windows 7

Elmo — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:29:24 +0800

just installed windows 7 on my old pc
everything's good except no audio output device detected

motherboard model is Gigabyte GA-8I915P-G
on-board sound is Intel © High Definition Audio (C-Media/Realtek)
works fine in WinXP

can't find any updated audio drivers anywhere

wonder if i can disable the onboard audio (how? through device manager or mobo jumpers?)
and install win7 compatible stand alone sound card? any recommendations?

better still, if someone has found compatible drivers that work

Flea Problem

Elmo — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:48:01 +0800

Our bunny has a minor flea problem. We were able to catch a few with a flea comb. Looking for a safe flea powder. Any recommendations plus where to get them? Which to avoid?

PC Start Up Problem

Elmo — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:20:11 +0800

For a while now, my PC makes a loud whirring sound esp when the CPU usage reaches or exceeds 50%. Everything still works except for that dangerously sounding noise. I cleaned the PSU fan, CPU fan and GPU fan with an air-duster and it helped for a while.

Today, the screen suddenly went dark, and a few secs later the screen flickered on for a sec before going dark, the process repeating itself.

I shut down the PC and attempted to restart the PC. The boot up proceeded normally -- no beeps, no error messages -- until the window logo screen appears, and the PC rebooted by itself. All subsequent restarts went as described above.

My question: is this a PSU problem? CPU problem? or graphic card problem? or, something else altogether?

How do I go about diagnosing the problem?

I can access the Set Up screen -- everything there appears to be in order.

This is a 4 year old PC -- upgraded several times (graphic card, memory, hard disks) -- and still very usable, meeting all my current needs.

P.S. There is no BSOD.

Better Late Than Never!

Elmo — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:44:04 +0800

Just received an sms on my Celcom mobile to the effect that TM wishes to inform that my complaint has been logged and action is being taken. A reference number was given and if more info is need, to call 100. Started to scratch my head as I can't remember making a complaint. So decided to call 100 and found out by way of elimination that the complaint is not Celcom related, not phone related but to a complaint I allegedly made way back in August about my Streamyx service. Racked my brain to figure out what went wrong in August and came up blank (not so young now, you see). Anyway, I am glad to report that TM does attend to your complaints --- even though it's four months late!

Need Help to Configure Modem Router

Elmo — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:21:51 +0800

ISP: Streamyx 1Mbps line --- line not a problem --- works with old setup

I have problem setting up this router -- did the setup wizard.

SMC Barricade g Wireless Broadband Router
(SMC7904WBRA2) Wireless 4-port Annex A ASDL2/2+ Modem Router

selected PPPoE LLC
selected vic/vpi as 0/32 (when 0/35 is selected it shows asdl physical down)
username & password set
dns set both pri and sec
asdl parameter at auto
left routing alone (static route, rip, routing table) --- no idea what to do here

configured the LAN corrected I think -- dhcp enabled; I can connect to the router setup so lan should be ok
router lan ip is 192.168.2.1
my pc ip (manual) is 192.168.2.100

Though it shows that ASDL is ok (physical up), the upstream is 512K and downstream show 1.5M, I don't seem to be connected -- no wan ip, no gateway ip (ip down)

What setting did I miss?

IP question

Elmo — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:50:45 +0800

A quick simple question:

I know the first set is the dynamic IP assigned to me.
But, what's the second set of numbers?

Your IP address is 219.95.156.36

(36.156.95.219.klj01-home.tm.net.my)

Emule & Traffic Shaping

Elmo — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:31:02 +0800

Ever since TMNet started traffic shaping, I have not had very good experience with BT and started to use Emule more regularly, when even though slower had been much more stable. I would often get steady download speeds of 100+ KB/sec as well as steady upload speeds, especially when I get High ID, Obsfucated connection and Open status on KAD. I would change my ports whenever I suspect that TMNet have started to block my ports. Normally I would get 4000+ client on queue to upload and 5000+ sources from which to download. I believe I have "good credit" so normally I would move up the queue fairly quickly. However, two days ago, everything went south on me. Sources barely hit 1000 and clients on queue become strangely low, sometime even bordering at 0. All this even when I get High ID, Obsfucation connection and open KAD status. Has TMNet found a new way to block Emule? I realize that the Emule community here is much smaller than that of BT, but if there are some helpful souls out there with answers or even advice, I will be most grateful.