Backlight inverter was the culprit

My BenQ Joybook 5000 notebook have been acting out for about year now. In a few irregular occasion, the lcd screen just dimmed out (or off). You can somehow still make the image displayed but it was so dimmed like putting the brightness to the lowest level. And I was like, "Dammit, first the cooling fan gave up and now the screen!"

Fortunately, after educating myself (through Googling :p) of what causing it, I was bit relief. Apparently the backlight inverter (the thing that tell the lcd backlight to turn on or off) was feeling the heat from MAXed out brightness. Intermittently, it will shut down when it got too hot.

But the fortunate aren't so as it cost me RM280 for the repair! So last Monday (i.e. 10Nov) I dragged my 2.8kg notebook to Lowyat (to be more specific, Vital Computers on Level 2) and have my screen fixed instantly. Good that everything Lowyat's is prompt.

That reminded me of my sister's more unfortunate Compaq 1000 notebook disaster when the motherboard died (but of course due to spillage by her 2-year-old daughter). It cost her exactly RM850 to replace the entire motherboard but as Lowyat is, I walk away with the newly 'refurbished' Compaq in just an hour :)

Lesson Learnt:
1) Don't max out the brightness of your LCD
2) Don't let your children play with the notebook with drinks somewhere near!

Walimatul Urus Faiz & Nadirah

Time goes by, and you hardly notice. 4 years of my most beautiful life was luckily shared with my special someone. And tomorrow, I'll take the next step... getting hitched :) I'm here glad to invite those who know me or Nadirah to our wedding reception. Check out the jpegs...

Kajang. Saturday, 12 July 2008














































Alor Star. Saturday, 19 July 2008

PocoPoco Dance

It's January 26, and my day started early today. I'm up by 5.15 - that's even earlier than my work day, which i have to commute like an hour to KLCC. It's our PMU annual gathering (aka family day) today. So en route to Genting View Resort (the venue of course) at 7.40am, it was the usual hillside's foggy morning. So foggy, i barely have sight of what's up front 10 yards.

Sleepy, coz it's after all Saturday :p But I'm very much fortunate having my fiancé coming along or rather I'm coming with her... we both work in PMU.

Family day is just a family day, but to highlight the morning, we had a poco-poco dance to ramp up the crowd's energy. It sure is interesting seeing a bunch of people learning how to dance :p