My comp is now a white elephant, in some sorts.
Maybe not really white lah. As de casing is made of aluminium, it's more of silvery/grey, with a black facade. I really like that part of de CPU. My floppy drive is black, as are my CD- and DVD-ROM drives. I was actually looking to get an all-black casing, but it wasn't within my budget when I DIYed at Sim Lim with Cikgu ard 2 years plus ago. Initially bought with a 40G HDD, 512MB RAM and a CD-ROM, another 80G HDD, 512MB RAM and a DVD-ROM were added on when I could afford it. It was good enough a rig for me, as I wasn't much into graphics-hungry games, save for CSCZ and de occasional online games.

It served me well during de whole of my NS stint, giving me no probs whatsoever. Lately thou, abt two weeks to be exact, smthg happened. Whenever I tried logging on to it, this error msg popped out, "The program issued a command but the command length is incorrect". Cikgu came to my place on the 9th, and after much Googling and asking ard, it was found that it was a virus. Damn that sucks! As he was in quite a rush, nothing was done that Sunday. He came again on de 14th, during which another copy of XP was installed. That helps, as I can now log on, but besides that, there's nothing more I can do.
Cikgu asked me to use this free online anti-virus by Panda. It was very 'heart pain' to use it. Firstly, I could see it scanning my files. Files which I can't access, as I'm using another XP installation, and not de previous one. Also, after scanning 73579 files, it was only barely half done. And this was after abt 4hr! WLD! How much longer must wait?? After abt 5.5hr, I decided to stop de scan. Taking too long lah..!

I can't wait to start sch, as I can then get a lappy under de sch's student plan, price or whatever it is called. Thinking of gettin de high end one, as it's priced quite lower than what it'd nomally be if not under de student thingy. Will see how it goes.. :)
Maybe not really white lah. As de casing is made of aluminium, it's more of silvery/grey, with a black facade. I really like that part of de CPU. My floppy drive is black, as are my CD- and DVD-ROM drives. I was actually looking to get an all-black casing, but it wasn't within my budget when I DIYed at Sim Lim with Cikgu ard 2 years plus ago. Initially bought with a 40G HDD, 512MB RAM and a CD-ROM, another 80G HDD, 512MB RAM and a DVD-ROM were added on when I could afford it. It was good enough a rig for me, as I wasn't much into graphics-hungry games, save for CSCZ and de occasional online games.
It served me well during de whole of my NS stint, giving me no probs whatsoever. Lately thou, abt two weeks to be exact, smthg happened. Whenever I tried logging on to it, this error msg popped out, "The program issued a command but the command length is incorrect". Cikgu came to my place on the 9th, and after much Googling and asking ard, it was found that it was a virus. Damn that sucks! As he was in quite a rush, nothing was done that Sunday. He came again on de 14th, during which another copy of XP was installed. That helps, as I can now log on, but besides that, there's nothing more I can do.
Cikgu asked me to use this free online anti-virus by Panda. It was very 'heart pain' to use it. Firstly, I could see it scanning my files. Files which I can't access, as I'm using another XP installation, and not de previous one. Also, after scanning 73579 files, it was only barely half done. And this was after abt 4hr! WLD! How much longer must wait?? After abt 5.5hr, I decided to stop de scan. Taking too long lah..!
I can't wait to start sch, as I can then get a lappy under de sch's student plan, price or whatever it is called. Thinking of gettin de high end one, as it's priced quite lower than what it'd nomally be if not under de student thingy. Will see how it goes.. :)