EIF corrupting event log files on unexpected machine failure?

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From: Jon Boxall (jboxall_at_blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: 08/05/04 

Date: 5 Aug 2004 08:21:02 -0700

Our issue is thus:
We have a couple of custom event logs that we write to using the EIF.
This works well, but recently we have had a couple of unexpected power
outages. When the machines (Win2K3) on which the software is
installed come back up, the CPU is stuck at 100% caused by
services.exe misbehaving.
Having dug around, I found that this was due to the event log playing
up. Further investigations indicate that the either standard
Application log, or one of the custom event logs, has corrupt entries.
 The only way out of this is to disable the event log, restart the
machine, start the event log and then clear the event logs.
This is a repeatable problem, and only happens on machines in which we
have custom error logs and the EIF installed.
Any pointers to the reason for this much appreciated.

Jon Boxall

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