Computer Problems…Any Computer Technicians out there?!
Hello everyone!! I know it’s been awhile since I’ve updated my blog and I do apologize for that. I’ve been really limited on the time I’ve been able to spend online because my computer has been acting up lately and I thought I had everything fixed but that turned out not be the case at all. I restored my entire computer thinking that would fix everything but it didn’t and now I don’t really know what to do. I don’t know much about the technical stuff but maybe some of you do?!
Any Computer Technicians out there?!!!!If there is anyone that knows a lot about computers and the internal workings, I could sure use some help. I don’t know if I’m looking at a small problem that can be easily fixed or something major that will have to be replaced. I ran a Diagnostics test and this is what it gave me:
Error Code 0F00:136C
Message: IDE device failed: Blank media or no media is present in optical drive.
Does anyone know what this means? I have tried doing a search using this information but I couldn’t make much sense out of it. My computer now seems to have very little memory because if I bring up more than one screen at a time it will start to freeze up and it will say that a script on the page doesn’t work because I am low on memory.This just starting happening the last few weeks and it’s very frustrating because now it’s hard to get anything done when you can only open one screen at a time. Before this started happening I could have numerous screens open at any given time and everything worked fine.
I didn’t know if maybe I need a new drive or if it is something that can just be repaired. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!! I’ve had to put a lot of things on hold since I’ve been having these problems.
Thank you all so much and I hope to get this problem fixed soon!
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There could be a couple reasons you’re getting that error message. But before you panic, try running system restore. There could be some applications that you have that are bad, which could cause that error to happen.
That’s the good news.
The bad news is that you may have a bad hard drive.
Try running system restore. I’m betting that will fix the problem. If not, then a new hard drive may be in order. Those aren’t that difficult to replace yourself. But do the system restore first, before you run out and spend $$.
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It’s hard to tell without looking at your PC, but when strange things start happening it’s worth looking at the memory.
By memory I don’t mean your Hard Disk (HDD), but your RAM.
Open your PC up and see how many DIMM modules you have. If there are two, take one out and then boot your PC up. See if the error still happens.
If it does, but the DIMM back in and try taking the other one out. Boot up and check.
Whilst you’re at it, dust the DIMM slots if they are dusty, sometimes the connection gets tainted.
If it’s not the RAM, could be your PC is detecting some hardware that it is mistaking.
Go to your control panel, find the hardware manager and dig around in there to see if all the bits are recognized properly.
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try replacing the memory, the memory does go bad and the sticks are easy to replace,
just be sure that you look in your specs and get the kind that is compatible with your computer. If you’ve never done it before, unclip the side that has a clip, lift and pull the stick, and replace. Put a plastic bag over the hand that touches the memory stick!!!, Don’t wear rings or bracelets or god forbid anything metallic or magnetized when fooling with the inside of your PC!!
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Most probably it got things to do with your CD-ROM or Hard Disk. You have to give more details in order to find what is really went wrong. The easiest way is to bring to computer repair shop before all your data lost or worse.
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Hi,
It sounds like you may have two separate problems. The first one (at startup) is an error you’d get when your computer tries to boot from a CD or DVD (like if you’re installing Windows for the first time) but the disk in there’s either blank or damaged. If there a disk in the drive? If so, either remove it at boot up or go into your BIOS settings (on most computers start hitting either F8 or ESC as soon as you turn it on) — and change the boot sequence so that the CD/DVD ROM isn’t checked. That being said, this may also indicate a problem with your hard drive; if it can’t boot, the computer tries to go to the second boot device. If this is the case, BACK UP EVERYTHING RIGHT NOW! and start shopping around for a new hard drive.
The second issue you describe sounds an awful lot like a trojan or virus infection. I’ve never heard of hardware arbitrarily eating up memory so it’s most likely software, and most likely not friendly software. Grab a copy of AVG Free (http://free.avg.com/download?prd=afe), restart your computer in safe mode with networking (hit F8 after the initial boot test and before the Windows loading logo appears). Install AVG and let it do a full scan of your PC — it’ll probably take a while. The reason you want to do this in safe mode is that this will prevent Windows from loading up any nasty device drivers or other evil software so that it remains dormant (and can be cleaned up more easily).
Hope this helps.
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