BSoD fixed!!!

Reinstalled OS & other programs over the weekend and had a major BSoD problem yesterday. Whenever windows media player tries to play any form of media, BSoD comes out, and it’s related to my audio driver. (For those who REALLY dont know, BSoD means Blue Screen of Death. If you have never seen what one looks like, good for you, and pray that it continues that way.) The strangest thing was that VLC player could play media WITHOUT BSoD, and opening of windows media player WITHOUT attempting to play any form of media will not cause my com to go blue…

I spent most of the evening/night trying to troubleshoot. I tried to search the net for some clues, but those either aren’t similar to what i’m facing, or the advice they gave i’ve already tried. I even updated all the drivers - graphic, mobo (motherboard for those of you who dont know), audio (yes i did this first), but still the wonderful windows media player still initiated a BSoD uponing opening media files. I got frustrated and gave up. I even asked ZY to come over 2day during his night’s out to see what’s so wrong (he commented that this problem is SPECTACULAR.) Went to sleep feeling uneasy that my com still had this major problem. I say it’s a major problem because I watch ALOT of media (no porn). Anime, combo videos, occasional dramas & movies, and of course music. Yea, no doubt i can get VLC player to do the job, but windows media player is used in some websites that stream videos (not those youtube kind duh.).

And so, I slept a not-so-wonderful night away. The next morning i woke up, still thinking of a logical/possible solution to this BSoD. Initially i was still in half-asleep mode, so nothing could get into my head. During breakfast, something just struck me. For what reason i do not know, i thought that reinstalling my codec pack might solve the problem. So after eating, that was exactly what i did. Then, the only thing left to do was to test whether a BSoD will still happen. And so, i opened windows media player, then tried to open a media file. At that time i thought - “if this still causes a BSoD, i’ll just have to get ZY to come over to take a look” and started praying really really hard. Much to my delight, the video played smoothly for 15s continuously without any problems. (well, i dont have all the time in the morning. i need to get to camp.). Then i tried another file for about another 20s. Still no problems! No BSoD!! =D

I was so glad then. I managed to solved a computer problem by myself. But thinking about it during the day, i realised that i am still a noob -_-. The solution wasn’t very difficult and yet i didn’t think of it early enough. I think my future in computer engineering in Uni will be full of difficulties and obstacles for me to overcome.

For now, i just hope my com doesn’t give me any more stunt and i’ll be contented.

Oh btw, wednesday got medic cover. sianz.

HQ Bday CMV (WMV version)

As promised in an earlier entry. A little huge. But it’s higher quality mah…

Here it is —> Click Here

What’s Going On???

I wonder if the crazy weather the past few days has contributed to everyone’s foul/unhappy/unpleasant/grumpy/glum/insert-any-other-suitable-words mood. Seems like everyone is suddenly very bothered, more easily irritated/agitated than usual. Well, me included too, though i think i’m not anywhere near the worst case around =.=

OPS duty list is out. Once again, I’m bestowed with doing a friday ops. YAY! -___- that’s like the 6th friday duty i’m doing for ops this year. so pro! only Jan and Jul never tio friday. looks like the 2hr off is fated not to be mine after all. hope i dont get a screwy rt cover date…

Think my knee is slowly recovering nicely. At least now when i bend my knee not so painful, though i still can’t stand for long periods of time yet. I guess another week should be sufficient to revert back to almost-100% functionality.

I forgot to mention this, but no one’s gonna give a damn anyway. Thanks to Posix, i’ve finally learnt the method to record true 60fps for winkawaks!!! better video quality for my future videos (if there are still any…) =) Major props to him =D Now what i need are new combos and ideas for editing ^.^ Okok, shant continue to rant on sth that only i care about. shall keep the rest to myself.

Currently listening to: F.I.R. Latest Album Titled 飞行部落. I think it’s nice too! but i believe many people will think otherwise. oh well…

Weekend’s coming!! =D

Hurting Knee

argh. my knee still hurts, but at least it’s only when the knee is bent/straighten from a previous different position. i wonder when i will be fully “functional”. hate this feeling.. haii.. shant talk about it anymore and pray for early recovery. =D

it’s been some time since i updated this little space of mine. been too lazy (just like what happened to my previous blog. heh) after today, i’ve got 133 days to ORD~ and 74 working days =D sounds near but i foresee many things that CAN come after me in office. i shall be bad and pray that they’ll come as late as possible, but most importantly dont gimme a package. should just spend effort in clearing 1/2 tasks effectively before starting on other things… if not waste a lot of time doing changes here there everywhere. shan’t say more, in case it’s against the “rules”. =X

have been wanting to try out TC4 since last week, but thanks to my great knee, i couldn’t possibly be able to play such a game. hopefully can get to play soon, and leave my high score (with clarence) on the machine for fun. haha. our TC3 high score is still at 4th and 5th position after like, 3-4 years? wow… haha…

hope the rest of the week will be rather peaceful so that i can enjoy the weekends once again =D

Birthday

A new video made by my friend Scott. The previous sentence is the link to it. Requires real player to play though. Link to wmv/avi version will be available once it’s available (duh).

I must say this year’s birthday is the most celebrated in recent years. There’s a cake (thanks to richie and gang for the effort!), dinner @ turkish restaurant Sofra (thanks to those who treat me =X it was totally unexpected man. my turn next time dun worry.). My lousy english can’t possibly express the many, many thanks i have towards the guys in prev med.

Hopefully the few pics taken will be passed to me some time soon. (the previous ktv sessions pics aren’t even out yet. at least no one sent me anything.)

tired. and tmr afternoon still got medic duty. hah. go rest liao. cya!!

91.5

91.5. That’s the number of working days that i have left, after taking into account of weekends, public holidays, and leave+offs. Of course, offs i only forecast until the end of this week. Getting more offs will further reduce my number of working days left. ^_^. But the sad thing is that i still got 159days to go. Would be great if absolute days drop to a 2 digit figure as well. Well, that day will come.

Last night went to ktv with prev med guys (past and present) in Chinatown. I still am mike shy, though got improvement liao (not voice quality ok. that one still CMI max -_-). Quite enjoyable time there, though they should really do something about the IAQ of the room. Install ventilations fans but dont turn them on. How smart. -_-. Geez, me and my Occ Health stuff. After a 3hour long ktv, we all went to have porridge for supper at one of the stalls nearby. Frankly speaking, it’s my first time eating the porridge there, and I must say it’s good. (well, Richie said it’s good, so I guess it can’t be very wrong.)

Will post up pics when I do get hold of them.

Oh yah, RI actually shifted their youth day holiday to next monday (10th July) so that their students can watch world cup finals. Cool isn’t it?

Now, for a little of advertisement for myself: My latest video is out (finally). Click HERE for it. I recommend right click -> save as or use of download managers like flashget. Any comments on the video (for those who actually will watch it) can post it here on the blog, or just msg me on msn ^_^