This issues has been actively discussed on both Dell & Nvidia forums. While Dell representative is quite helpful, Nvidia just keep it quiet. But in the end, Dell also not doing anything.

The issues for this specific model Dell Vostro 3300 and 3700 is using Switchable GPU. Means you’re able to run on NVidia GPU (some one 330M, some on 310M etc) when you need it like for gaming. But when not needed you’ll run on Intel HD and thus saving battery life. The idea is good.

However, you’re limited to Dell provided driver only. And they’re not updating it. At first this was no issues for me, as I’m able to play all of my game. This become a problem when I can’t play Need For Speed Run. Because it required me to have latest graphic driver. How old is the driver? Now is the end of 2011, Dell driver is from 2010…. Duh!

Somehow Dell did not put disabling command in BIOS to. The Dell representative said, in pre-production BIOS the command is available…. But not available on production one. But it’s confusing one because in manual it have. And as one of the user point it out, the Dell support Level 2 simply said just return the unit and get a different unit without the problem. Why we buy from Dell anyway?

So here is how:

1. Uninstall NVidia Driver
2. Run Nasty File Remover (Please download from reputable website)
3. Download Intel HD driver from Intel web
4. Download NVidia Latest Driver from NVidia Web
5. Install Intel HD driver first.
6. It might not work, so after restart you need to go to Device Manager -> Display Adapter -> 1st VGA device, do Update Driver and browse for Intel HD driver you just download
7. After restart again, you will see you get back your normal resolution (1600 x 900). First step successful! Congrats! Clap! Clap! Clap!
8. Now go to Device Manager again. Go for the only VGA device (another one is Intel HD, which we install driver already) -> Right Click, Properties -> Details ->Select “Hardware ID”
9. You need to copy the Hardware ID. I recommend to copy it to Notepad.
10. Run Nvidia Installer
11. When it says No Hardware Detected, just cancel it.
12. Browse to where you extract the Nvidia Driver.
13. Find the file name “nvam.inf”
14. Edit this file in Notepad (I use notepad++)
15. You need to find this line -> NVIDIA_DEV.0A35.06 = “NVIDIA GeForce GT 325M     ”  (yes including the space and “)
16. Press Enter. Paste this -> NVIDIA_DEV.0A29.01 = “NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M” (yes including the “)
17. Then find this line -> %NVIDIA_DEV.0A35.06% = Section048, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0A35&SUBSYS_1F171043
18. Press Enter, Paste this -> %NVIDIA_DEV.0A29.01% = Section050, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0A29&SUBSYS_044F1028
19. Save the “nvam.inf” file
20. Re-run the NVidia setup again
21. Now you should be able to install driver already.
22. After restart, you will have the NVidia Control Panel icon on taskbar
23. You’re done

So you get it now? In NVidia drivers they dont have our hardware/device ID, so how in the hell the driver installer going to detect it? So the steps above simple adding our hardware ID into the installer list. Thats all. Oh, the Intel HD part? Because NVidia require the Intel HD to install first.

Now you can configure in control panel on which application to use NVidia GPU, or set it to auto. (This part I’m still experimenting)

Now I can run Need for Speed Run. But NVidia GPU will overheat and laptop will shutdown. This is another issues that has been discussed, poor airflow design by Dell for Vostro 3700 cause this. (This also I’m still experimenting on how to deal with it)

*Update – Solve overheat issues by using this big fan

Jadi aku pegi ke Skynet. So sekarang ni memang aku tak prepare apa, kamera masuk dalam beg, ikat beg ketat – ketat. Cukupla padding dekat bag tu. Jadi kat Skynet aku kata, aku nak pos kamera, ke Melaka. Problem pertama, takder kotak. Tanyalah aku kepada awek kaunter tersebut (kenapa semua kat kaunter mesti awek?) ade kotak tak. Dia masuk dalam dan cari. Lama la jugak, cam 10 ~ 20 minit camtu.

Bila dah keluar, dia bawak la kotak Skynet. Sekali ada lagi sorang staff ni keluar sekali….

(Pendek cerita, ni perbualan dengan staff tersebut)

Staff: Kami tak accept valueble items.
Aku: (Tunjuk ke dinding, ade notis Skynet) Ini takder tulis pun.
Staff: Oh! Diorang lupa letak la tu.

Oh. WTF moment. Apekebende notis camtu pun boleh diorang pertikaikan.

Staff: Kami boleh terima tapi tak jamin la (Pulak?? Tadi kata tak accept).
Aku: Saya tak kisah, sekarang ni boleh letak padding sikit tak, kertas ke.
Staff: Ni valueble items, kami tak jamin, nanti hilang ka, rosak ka, kami tak boleh bayar.
Aku: Memanglah korang tak boleh bayar pun…… (Duh!)

Time ni dia dah cakap – cakap ngan staff lagi sorang. Pastu cakap bahasa ibunda dia yang aku tak paham.

Staff: Bukan apa, nanti kamera ni diorang baling – baling nanti kamera rosak.
Aku: Ni, kat kotak “Handle with care” ? (refer kepada kotak Skynet)
Staff: Pukul 2 pagi dalam van, mana ada orang nak handle with care.

Ahhhhhh. Tensyen pulak aku dengan minah ni.

Aku: Sebelum ni saya pakai Skynet jugak, pos handphone apa semua ok je.
Staff: Itu diorang tak check la tu.
Aku: Diorang bukak je tengok semua barang.
Staff: Haaa??!! Macam mana boleh lepas?

Wah…. Ingat aku pakai jampi ke hape. Dah terang – terang staff Skynet tu yang bukak kotak aku, check satu – satu, siap isi borang declare barang ape. Pastu aku sign. Itu pun kire magic ke boleh lepas.

Apekah permaslahan dengan Skynet yang aku pergi tu tak tahu ler. Aku pun confuse jadinya, nak accept ke tak aku nak courier tu. Nak kata tak nak accept, siap ambik kotak, siap tolong box, potong kotak kasi fit betul – betul dengan item. Siap tape lagi. Tapi banyak mulut pulakkkk.

Jadinya… Siap selamat la pos dslr tersebut. Dan sudahpun diterima dan diconfirmkan ok semuanya oleh pembeli tersebut.

Moral of the story di sini… Aku sangat tak paham dengan staff Skynet tersebut.

This picture that I took at Taman Tasik Titiwangsa, KL always will be my inspiration. I think it as “There will always be light shine on you”. Shorten a bit, it become “There will always be”.

So many possibilities that could happen, there will always be new things to try out, every day, every second of our live.

Despite right now I am so down that I can’t even focus with what I am doing with my life, this picture give me strength that there is light in the end of the tunnel. There will always be a good ending for this misery right now.

Dear God, I beg for your forgiveness for that I did lots of stupid thing, lots of sin and please guide me to the right path. The path that lead to Al-Jannah.

Note: When people are in love they tend to forget God, they think they own the world. They don’t. I think I own the world. Truthfully I don’t and last night I learn the pain of truth.

I am happy for those who suffer

Shortest entry ever (for me)

After done eating we check out the closest cinema with the fastest showtime is Pavillion KL. It was actually my first time going there by car. I agreed that the parking is pretty much cut throat. We pay like RM 9 …. I was like WTF, better I go for Valet Parking if like this. Also lift is quite a puzzle. We go up 5th floor. When going back down cannot take the same lift (no button at all at outside), ask a guard there we need to take Service lift. This is just like The Gardens when I took service lift and whole light turn off. Shit!

Back with X-Men First Class.

The starting kinda like Dejavu where I think I already watch the movie and I think Oh Great, I pay to watch again…. Then only I realise it is totally different movie. Haha.

I’d say the movie is great.

Shows quite well the history of Professor X and the team and how Magneto is created.

The only comment I have is they does not show people trying to cure the paralyzed Professor X. From the moment he took the bullet, so we just assume Prof X just become paralyzed without even try to prevent it?

Maybe he just accept it?

Jadi aku pun tengok dekat TGV KLCC. Katanya ada renovation tapi tak nampak pun kat mana. Kerusi dia masih lagi sempit macam biasa. Lain kali tengok kat TGV Capsquare, ambik couple seat, selesa sikit.

Rasanya ramai orang sangat – sangat suka dengan Aaron Aziz. Aku lagi suka Aaron Aziz dalam cerita Dua Alam. Hehe. Tapi ramai orang tak suka cerita Dua Alam. Bagi aku Dua Alam ok apa? Tapi aku pun tak tengok kat panggung… Ehem Ehem jugak. Kalau Dr Rozmey jual cerita Dua Alam RM1 sekali download pun ok jugak kan? Tapi file sharing site dah kena block….

Apa ni, asyik off topic ja ni…

Ok. First sekali KL Gangster nampak sangat yang melayu nak cakap slang chinese, aku ingatkan sikit – sikit, tapi semua sekali macam tu. Cuma Malek (Aaron Aziz) ja yang kurang sikit slang dia. Mungkin sebab 5 tahun duduk dalam penjara. Slang dah hilang.

Kongsi bawak slang kelate (atau selatan Thailand) memang membuatkan aku suka. Lari dari kelainan. Mungkin aku expect KL Gangster menggunakan bahasa baku 100%. Haha. Gila… Jadi macam filem Yusof Haslam balik la…. Jangan jangan

Jalan cerita yang agak OK. Bagi aku kurang lagi penghayatan jalan cerita tu. Aksi pun kurang mendebarkan. Fighting scene tu nampak sangat staging. Walaupun memang la aku tau ni filem, bukan dokumentari ke hapa. Tapi kemon la! Gaduh tu gaduh la tapi dah macam tengah prektis pun ada. Scene yang patutnya cepat, pantas jadi slow sebab nak timing tangan dan kaki untuk tumbuk/tendang dan tepis/elak.

Komen pasal jalan cerita pulak, aku rasa banyak sangat unsur drama yang nak dimasukkan tapi kena cut sebab nak cukupkan masa ke hapa tak tau lah. Syamsul Yusof nak sambung buat drama ke?

Ada disebut King dengan Malek sama – sama naik waktu dulu. Tapi tak ada flashback (ke aku dah tertidor time flashback). Jadi aku rasa penghayatan akan lebih lagi kalau ada flashback tunjuk betapa taikonya Malek dengan King time muda – muda dulu.

Dan last sekali Syamsul Yusof pilih untuk bermain selamat. Patutnya masukkan sedikit realiti di mana orang – orang atasan pun ada hubungan dengan Gangster, tapi tak dipaparkan. Tunjuk jaga kawasan je. By orang – orang atasan aku maksudkan menteri – menteri di dalam kerajaan. Mungkin betul atau tak, tapi aku percaya realitinya ada involvement direct or indirectly. Jadi paparkanlah, lagipun cerita ni kan fiksyen, apa pun boleh jadi

Aku juga sangat berharap KL Gangster 2 nanti, Syamsul Yusof dapat bawak masuk Yus Jambu sebagai watak kaki pukul muka legend tapi dalam hati ada taman beb!

Overall aku enjoy tengok KL Gangster. Walaupun kesempitan disebabkan kerusi TGV yang kecik. Walaupun orang di depan aku ni kejap angkat tangan, kejap letak tangan atas kepala, kejap tegakkan badan, asyik nak blocking view. Last sekali aku hilang sabar aku tepuk bahu dia. Barulah dia tak blocking view lagi. Nak angkat tangan ke kaki ke tengok kat Astro First kat rumah la (ada ke?).

Ok so this pic is unedited, 100% straight crop. I just put a frame around it and some text. That’s all. Truly like its color.

Well I think this is a short story of a bird who just want a peaceful time eating and flying around without being stalking with big zoom lens. Haha.

Shot with Nikon D90, Nikkor 70-300 af-s vr lens, aperture f/8, shutter 1/500 sec ~ 1/640 sec, iso 1600, focal length 210mm ~ 300mm.

The more loyal I am to Maxis, the more I get irritated by its problem that affect me directly.

Their website is just for information only! Damn it!

Don’t ever try to change anything in your account in their website. If you change something, the system might go change every other thing as it please. Do Maxis actually have SkyNet in the making, I don’t know. But it is a big possibility since their system do have their own mind. Oh shit! I uncover what should remain secrets…. Duh!

I believe more people already know about this Maxis website or Online system woes. I do have an experience with them too, years ago when they just introduced the system. I thought years and years of usage, feedback, problems facing by customers, maintenance and updates (is it any?) the system would be better… Did not!

Ok. Here’s the story. I want to change my Mobile Internet package from 100mb monthly (light user, twitter and fb on android only) to 500mb monthly (getting more apps on android). So I just deselect 100mb and select 500mb. Thats all. After submit and confirmation, the system says it will reflect on the next day.

Come today. It just suck! No data connection at all!

I check online, guess what it shows ?

Yes. The system just unsubscribe my 3G access and all data packages, not even pay per use left. I have to say this… Fuck!

It says in their website (as highlighted above):

You can add or delete Value Added Services (VAS), such as Call Forwarding, CLIP or any other Value Added Services in this section.

But it does not say that their system might change or alter your account setting as it like. Dang!

What to do next? Call their customer service (123). After about 20 minutes explaining, she said she need to go in details first and will call me back. I wait around 15 minutes or so, she call back and have everything back as normal plus subscribed to 500mb package.

So Maxis customer. Just forget about Maxis Online Account system whatsoever, if you need anything just call them.

From an unofficial unconfirmed sources (I am lazy to find the articles) Maxis is getting RM 30 Billion yearly (USD 9.94 Billion – exchange rate as May 2011) yet their online system just fuck up!

Wake up Maxis! Rebuild the system if you need to. May I suggest AIST to develop your system?

So what I did ? This morning I did accompany  mom to pasar (wet market is it?). And this is some picture I snap.

A Dog sleeping away

This is what we bought

My mom try to haggle the price. 7 pieces for RM10. My mom try to get 8 pieces for RM10. But the seller does not give way. Depend on timing and luck I think. Quite few times my mom really got a good deal by haggling. Sometime I need to record a video of my mom haggling with seller.

Tilt and Shift experiment with Photoshop CS5

Last night I did some experimental Tilt & Shift lens replication/editing in Photoshop CS5. It was really easy. Later I’ll write on the guide. The picture above is the best I could achieve. I need to more shots from above to make it works better. Later I’ll be hunting from skyscraper in KL for good angle and view!

Masalahnya aku dapat update kat facebook (facebook lagi…. banyak sungguh masalah yang disebabkan facebook ni) yang salah sorang dalam friend list aku kena tag gambar. Aku tengok – tengok …. Aik! Ni gambar aku ni …. Sapa tak kenal gambar yang diambik dan diupload sendiri. Haha. Nak tengok gambar tu, rujuk link ke post aku sebelum ni.

Time tu aku tak letak lagi watermark ni. Silap aku jugak la kot.

Anyway …. Yang aku tak syok tu …. Kena kutuk pulak … Dan lagi best aku tak boleh nak reply sebab aku bukan friend dia. Tapi tu gambar aku. Jadi aku screenshot kan apa yang diorang tulis kat facebook tu.

Tak best la bila kena “kutuk” (quote sebab aku rasa bergurau jer kot … tak nak letak dalam hati). Kalau rujuk link aku tu, english aku tunggang langgang jugak lah. Kisah sebenarnya aku nak cari solutions kepada permasalahan aku di mana bila hujan air masuk ikut bonet depan, kena air filter, dan jadik semput (sebab tu nama dia air filter, bukan water filter … lol).

Memang temporary pun, sebab lepas tu aku cadang nak masuk kotak angin (airbox) asal/standard. Tapi lastly tak letak jugak sebab aku dah jual keta tu.

So kat sini aku nak tegur sikit je, kalau ambik gambar ke content ke apa ke tanpa bagitau owner dia, at least bagi la kredit balik. Tu jer. Pasal nak kutuk “heatshield” aku tu … Tak kisah pun… Tapi aku running dengan benda dekat 10k km, takder la jadi macam korang cakap, enjin pecah la, berkecai la … haha.