Johann Low

月曜日, 2月 18, 2008

[imac issues]

My imac was rock stable from day 1 but after abt 1 wk, things began to happen.

First of all, the display refused to wake up after i left it on overnight while downloading stuff and I had to shut it down by force. Then it happened a 2nd time when it refused to wake up again when i put it manually to slp. Then after doing some settings in the Energy Settings, it began to work like normal again. I even did a extended hardware test and everything was cleared. But yesterday, things went bad.

My imac crashed, 1st time, all the prgms froze, I had to force shut down. Then booting it up I had some error beeps (3 times) not sure what they meant then, then I forced it to shut down again. 2nd time, it managed to boot up normally but upon loading the main screen, it froze again, this time round it was a Kernel Panic. After shutting it down, the imac could not boot up seriously this time, there was a grey screen and there were beeps, 1st tone was a 2 tone beep, then subsequently 3 tones. I thought my imac was gone case this time but anyway i did a search with my laptop then I realised the 3 beeps meant a RAM fault.

I thought the additional 1pc Samsung ram was the cause of all this thus I removed it but to no avail. Then I removed the default Hynix ram which came with the imac and used the Samsung ram..MY MAC COULD BOOT UP NORMALLY!!! This meant that Hynix ram is faulty! I had problems with Hynix ram when I bought my 1st mac, it could boot up then but after awhile it will KP again. But back then, the effect was more immediate. After this, I did another self test. I removed the Samsung ram from its slot and place it in the Hynix slot, this was to determine both slots are working fine and my mac booted up normally too.

As of now, I am running on 1pc 1GB only. I could feel there is a slight difference. I hope to get half day leave tmr to exchange this pc of lousy Hynix ram.

Devil May Cry 4.

I first played this cool and stylish action game on my PS2. I rem back then I was so awed by the graphics then. It was a pretty fun game. Later DMC 2 and 3 were released but i did not buy. Now DMC4 is on the PS3 and Xbox 360. Graphics wise it was looking better of course. I was stuck in Mission 3 Torture Chamber where I need to 'swing' across the hall with spiked ceilings. It was pretty easy for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd swing. It was the 4th and later swings which I had problems getting across. I tried like 2 days but failed haha...but I did not give up. I tried again this morning after watching a video of someone who managed to get across the hall like a breeze.

I timed the movement and I roughly used the same timing and it worked!! haha..now I am on Mission 6 already.

-and my colleagues (7 of them including boss and manager) are in Suzhou for exhibition now. I wonder how fucked up the situation is for this year.

elow at 12:26 午前 |

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