Category: Tech Stuffs

I mentioned about my Ixus i Zoom’s E18 error yesterday right? I did a search on the net and guess what!?!??! It can be easily fixed! The camera don’t have to go RIP 😛 I tried the options provided to Repair Canon E18 Error but nothing work!

This is my camera taken with my sis’ camera, luckily she’s back in time as I need a camera later for food tasting session. Phew… This is what you see… The lens cannot retract at all…

After all the steps, we had to go to the extreme by dismantling it but this is not that extreme yet as we only dismantled it halfway and some people actually went even more extreme by banging the camera to hard surface with full force and it works! 😛 I did try to bang it but I dare not to bang too hard because I’m afraid later it leads to another problem, the CCD problem due to the impact which would be worst than this E18.

So… Dismantling it that’s it but to no avail.

Still cannot fix it because we dared not to go further, there are too many “layers” so we screwed everything back in place. Had to go further by dismantling even more pieces to take out the lens.

Basically every part of it have to come off. Pretty risky. So decided to bring it to camera shop and ask them dismantle it, it shouldn’t be too expensive as the major problem for E18 is due to dust or sand or the lens might have come out from its intended place and got stuck due to some unintended impact, there is nothing to replace according to the website, just need to place the lens back to its original location and clean the surrounding. So need people with the skill to do it.

Any place to recommend?

Hehehe… Remember I blogged about king.com previously? I did tell you that I like the game called Cookie Rookie. I played many times and never reach 70,000 mark. Then two weeks ago, I wasn’t plan to break any record or anything, I just clicked on the jackpot tournament and played like usual. Who knows this time I actually managed to hit the 100,000 mark! Unbelievable! I didn’t expect I could hit that level!

For the first time I saw something different, a huge gold cupcake fell to the table but it looks like you-know hahaha… I got the Best Baker award!! Hahaha…

Another surprise was that I didn’t expect that I could get into the top 5, I was in the 4th place. WOW! Unbelievable! However, later it dropped but still maintained in the top 10 until the time of the tournament ended. I was awarded with lots of jewels(300+ of them if not mistaken) and I managed to advance to the next jewel level which I didn’t expect I would be able to do so in just 2 days.

It’s so addictive 😛 However, I don’t think I can go till this level again hehehe… It’s all by luck, so better screen capture and blog about it 😛

I’m on XPS now!! Actually can use yesterday already 😛 Only update now hahaha…

The tech support came to fix it at 11.30am-1.30pm, yesterday. He unscrewed everything and replaced the motherboard. There’s some scratches but not so bad, the deepest is the one near the XPS logo near the on/off button… Oh well… What to do? This design is different from normal laptop, it’s not easy to take out everything. Want to see the parts? 😛 I took some photos when he dismantled everything, didn’t take all because I didn’t want to disturb him working *LOL* Just took some that were closer to me.

The “dead” motherboard.

One unknown part and DVD drive.

The scratch. Poor baby… *sob sob*

All photos taken with my phone 😛

The verdict!?!? OVERHEAT!!! WAH PIANG! For the first time I used a laptop until overheat! Motherboard replaced. I’m only using it for about 2 months and I heated it up so badly! 😛 I guess I’m too hot for the laptop to handle *LOL*

I know this model heat up very fast from the reviews I read, I didn’t expect I could actually kill it in such short span of time. I still can’t believe what I did! Hahaha… I think I have to go out and hunt for a fan for it *LOL* Else we’ll be seeing another overheat episode from Sweet Surrender and I will become Dell’s regular customer for motherboard replacement, sure will get blacklist :P.

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