Er, computer help?

[cinaed]

So, last night I was watching a DVD on the computer, enjoying my night, when all of a sudden a little screen pops up and says, "Error, Media Center requires a 32-bit color scheme" or something to that effect, and next thing I know, my computer screen is blue, gray, black, and white, totally screwed up.

I panic a bit, cursing under my breath and telling my best friend that if my comp is broken, I'm going to cry on her shoulder. Then I turn take out of the DVD, turn off the computer, and let it rest for an hour or so. When I turn it back on, yay, the color's back to normal.

...However, now all of a sudden I keep getting "Not enough memory to run this application" errors and Firefox and AIM keep quitting on me. Uh. Any clue what's going on? All I have open is Firefox and AIM. You wouldn't think you need too much memory for that, right?

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[rosewildeirish.livejournal.com]

...last time you ran a virus checker?

[cinaed.livejournal.com]

I have Symantec AntiVirus and run it every night. I'm not sure if that's actually a full scan though. *goes to do that right now*

[duckduck.livejournal.com]

Well, I asked j, and he has some questions that are so complicated I can barely understand them. Then again I have a terrible head cold/sinus pain, so I can barely string a sentence together. That said, he has this to say:

I don't know. There's not a lot of details & a lot of questions to ask in order to get to the bottom of things, I would think.

The first is, do they think they are actually supposed to be running in 32 bit video?
MCE requires 32 bit graphics, and the weird colors aren't abnormal if you're trying to run, say, 24 bit graphics when it's expecting 32 bit.

And what's on the DVD? Is it a real DVD? or divx/xvid/something they downloaded. No easy answers, I don't think.

He doesn't think this is going to help you much, if any, but I thought I'd forward it anyway.

*snug*

[cinaed.livejournal.com]

I was watching my Supernatural DVDs (legally bought and paid for, amazingly).

The computer's colors are fine now, and the computer is running a bit slow, but not complaining about memory anymore. The only thing that's weird is that when it comes off idle is that it'll have a little black screen that says, "Auto Adjust in progress."

Otherwise, it's behaving, but thanks for asking J. :) I did a scan with my antivirus software and nothing came up, so that's good at least. ^^;;