Kurogane’s Anime Blog

The story goes like this…

The other day, I bought 2 x 1GB sticks of Crucial Ballistix RAM from Shawty (popular seller in LYN forums). Got the RAM yesterday, then took it to test on my new rig today. Booted up fine with all 4 sticks. Then decided to test with only the Ballistix. Guess what? The POST BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP of Doom struck. orz.

“Fine,” I thought, “Might have seated the RAM’s wrongly.”, so I reseated the RAM’s. POST BEEP of Doom again.

“Right, calm down…. let me try with the other slots.”, so I changed the slots pairing from 1-3 to 2-4. POST BEEP of Doom again.

“Shit, this looks bad.”, so I changed to the original sticks of Corsair Twin2x XMS RAM. Tried with 1-3 and 2-4. POST BEEP’s of Doom again.

“Oh f-ck, not good.”, so I reset the CMOS twice and tested with different set each CMOS clear. POST BEEP’s of Doom again.

“Great.”, so I tested the sticks INDIVIDUALLY, on each INDIVIDUAL slots.

16 POST BEEP’s of Doom (4 sticks x 4 slots) later, “F*ck, this is bad. real bad.”, so I asked for riku2replica’s(LYN forumer and friend) help to eliminate the RAM as the cause. All the RAM’s worked fine on his PC.

“Sigh… looks like my mobo is f***ed.” Called jy14(the original seller) to RMA the board and he said it takes 2 weeks.

So, there is how I killed my mobo in just one month of setting it up, har har har. Thank god the mobo is still in RMA period.

Moral of the story: Shit happens.

Oh, i’m taking the chance to sell my current casing as well, the LYN thread is here. You can also contact me directly via email if you want to buy it (no outstation buyers, thanks).

After nearly a 15 hour marathon of setting up my new PC, Vista finally prevailed over XP and saved my day!

First a recap. I’ve been planning to assemble together a new PC to complement my current rig, an old but reliable 478′er Prescott (haha). After nearly a year of skimping and saving, I managed to buy the components piece by piece and finally, yesterday, I took the big leap. Here’s the rig specs:

Intel Core2Duo E4500 = RM 380
2 x 1GB Corsair Twin2X DDR2 = RM250
DFI INFINITY P965-S = RM 550
Sapphire HD3870 = RM 660
Silverstone Strider ST56F = RM 320
Seagate 7200.10 320GB = RM 230
Encloxure Shinobi SH09A = RM 140
Total = RM 2305

I started the assembling all the components at 9, after a good night’s sleep, and finished it at 12, after some mishaps :(. So anyways, with the board POST’ed up, I proceeded to install XP SP2 on it, but the snag came at installing ATI’s Catalyst driver, where I tried not only with the provided drivers, but also their latest 8.3 and 8.2 versions, all of which caused XP to BSOD itself upon loading. Wasted around 12 hours trying to get it work, in the end, I tried Vista.

And lo and behold! Catalyst 8.3 installed perfectly on Vista, giving me 4.4 on the Windows Experience Index, plus giving me my first taste of the Windows Aero theme, and I must say, god damn, it’s beautiful. Definitely didn’t expect to see Vista actually making me go over the moon in happiness, considering the amount of bad rep I’ve been exposed to of it, but I’ll say, it ain’t that bad after all!

Anyways, retiring for a good rest first, before proceeding to play around more with my new rig.

EDIT: I’m selling off my new D-Link KVM switch, since it can’t support my keyboard well. Any local readers interested? :P

To the people on that Friday night/Saturday morning when Masakazu Morita-san came in for a surprise visit to the GACC committees, I sincerely apologize for hijacking myself in some of your group photos.

I was pretty caught up in the flow of things that night, being surprised and all, so I didn’t realize that it was inappropriate for me to be inside some of your group pictures. For that, I have nothing but myself and only myself to blame.

However, I would also like to say here that I am not a particularly socially sensitive person, and I admit that I am an dumbass at noticing social cues which are pretty obvious, so I would’ve appreciated it if someone could’ve pointed out my mistakes to me before hand. I am not a person who is afraid to admit my own wrongdoings, but I am a person who really hates to be kept in the dark and forced to accept punishment without any knowledge of the reason.

Again, I apologize sincerely for the incident, and I shall endeavor to not repeat the same mistake again, to the utmost of my abilities. I dearly hope for everyone who I have hurt their feelings will accept this sincere apology of mine.

Comments will be closed as this is not an incident that concerns my regular blog readers, but I felt that using my blog as the platform is the best way to reach out to all the people that I have offended as I do not have all their personal contacts.

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Wow, I don’t know what to say. Either life is seriously imitating art or someone’s been watching too much anime and has nothing better to do in their free time. I love how they actually printed out both perspectives of the problem as well.

Sorry for the hasty cut and paste. Don’t know how to actually combine both the top and bottom properly.

恭喜发财! Gong Xi Fa Chai!

I would like to wish all my readers a Happy Chinese New Year. May this year be another prosperous and happy one!

Ironically how that it’s the year of the rat, yet foxgirls seem to be on the centerstage of moe trends this year.

I’ll be taking a break for the next two days or so, for the usual festivities and obligations to fulfill. Normal posting shall resume pretty much by next week. 3

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LOL. I totally missed this, even when I had the hard copy right under my nose. I can’t believe I only knew about this from a Singaporean (for the record, you guys are the most self-centered cold bastards in the world).

Suddenly, I feel like following back Aunt Thelma’s column. I used to read it regularly… but it got too repetitive. I just gotta love “her” answer. “Put it on Youtube!” LOL.

メリークリスマスみんなさん！ Merry Christmas everyone!!! Yeah It’s a bit early for those not on GMT +8, but what the heck :D.

Hope it’s been a good year for all my readers, and I hope y’all won’t be getting coal from Santa ;).

Look forward to my Year-in-Review post sometime soon, perhaps before the New Year :).

Till then, enjoy!

P.S. Does anyone still have a copy of my Christmas present last year? Sadly I lost my copy in a HDD crash, and I can’t find it back.

Today, I should’ve written entries for sixth episodes of Ninomiya-kun, CLANNAD and Shana II, but instead I went out the whole day, blew RM1000 (okay, half of it wasn’t mine) and watched the Stardust movie.

This post will primarily be about Stardust, since it was the most enjoyable thing today really. The movie is definitely the best of all the (oh say, 3 or 4) movies I’ve watched this year so far, and I was actually quite expecting it. It surely didn’t disappoint, thankfully. It had endearing characters and a well-done fantasy setting that’s not too cliched nor too complicated to understand in the short running time of the movie. It also had some really awesome dialogue and really well done humor all round, especially Captain Shakespeare, god he was a real riot. Best of all? Yvaine is a tsundere! XD.

Well, that out of my system, rest be assured, normal blogging will resume tomorrow or soon. Quite a backlog I’ve accumulated today :P.

It seems to apply to me. A lot.

I just went through what possibly could be one of the most interesting days of my life. Ever.

First, the good news. I have finally achieved one of my otaku objectives, which is owning Kotobukiya’s Gothloli Asuka, thanks to Stripey-dono. I owe you an eternal debt of gratitude, my fellow brother-in-interests :).

Then, at night, I’m trying to install another HDD in to my PC, to fit in my ever-burgeoning collection of data, when somehow, I manage to fry my music HDD. OTL. 200GB of anison, gone. Just like that. Also fried another HDD, empty this time, to replace it. OTL, again. Not to mention, my newly bought VGA cooler wouldn’t fit on my video card thanks to two stupidly placed capacitors.

I’m surprised I’m still keeping my sanity. Wonderful day it has been, no?

Via Mainichi News:

CHIBA — A junior high school boy has been arrested for stabbing a high school boy after burgling the victim’s home, police said.

The 14-year-old, third-year junior high school student, stands accused of attempted murder and violating the Firearms and Swords Control Law. He admitted during questioning that he had murderous intent.

“He spotted me sneaking into his house, so I thought I had to kill him so I wouldn’t get found out,” he was quoted as telling investigators.

The boy stabbed the 17-year-old victim in the head and back with a kitchen knife on the premises of an auto repair garage in Wakaba-ku, Chiba, at about 3:50 p.m. on Thursday, local police said. The suspect and victim were acquainted with each other. (Mainichi)

Oh wow, this recent spate of deadly teenage crime is really getting out of hand. Is it merely coincidences or a sign of things to come in Japan? Let’s hope for the best.

P.S. I just noticed that in the three cases up to now, the perpetrators are getting younger and younger. Axe-tan was 16, Axe-kun was 15 and now, Knife-san is 14. I reeeeaaaaaalllllly hope I don’t see a seventh or eighth case was the same pattern. 6 year olds running around with sharp objects are not funny.