Re: Sudden Rebooting

From: TrickTrash (guardclone-news_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 03/14/05 

Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:10:54 -0000

Will

I'd forgotten I'd read somewhere to turn off Automatic Restart & had already
done it, without getting any BSOD, which I've never seen in XP. I also
hadn't been checking memory dumps; now that you've pointed it out to me I've
checked & don't have any.

I'd been checking the Event Viewer, but couldn't initially link any of the
messages to my problem, so had discounted this, which may have been a
mistake.

I keep seeing 2 types of error message here-

Under Application : PerfNet Event ID 2002 Can't open Redirector service &
PerfNet Event ID 2004 Can't open Server service. Neither seemed to apply to
me as they seem to refer to Workstations & servers & I'm a lone Desktop.

Under System:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: DCOM
Event Category: None
Event ID: 10005
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Description:
DCOM got error "The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled
or because it has no enabled devices associated with it. " attempting to
start the service IISADMIN with arguments "" in order to run the server:
{******************}

Again I thought nothing of this as I've got DCOM Server Process Launcher
running automatically and this error seemed a regular occurence, not always
associated with a reboot. I'd also become blase about the services, having
poured over Black Viper's recommendations & thought I'd got these sussed,
although in truth I don't always understand them.

I should also point out that I remember doing something with the IIS Admin
service after I thought I got them all sorted, I think I was tinkering with
the 'add Windows components' wizard & added the Internet Information
Services snap-in, thinking it would give me some interesting performance
info, only to disable the IIS Admin Service when I failed to understand it.
( Are they related?)

Could any of the above error messages be pointing to the problem? Am I
talking out of my hat?

So far I seem to be going around in not very productive circles. Is there
anything else I should be doing to narrow down the field of suspects?

"Will Denny" <willdenny@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:OmfrI5yJFHA.1392@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Hi
>
> If you don't see any error messages, right click on My Computer, select
> Properties and then the Advanced tab. Click on Settings under Startup and
> Recovery and disable 'Automatically restart'. Next time your PC reboots,
> you should see a Blue Screen. Could you please post the Stop Code from
> the
> BSOD?
>
> Also, please have a look in the Event Viewer to see if any entries there
> may
> refer to the problem.
>
> --
>
> Will Denny
> MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
> Please reply to the News Groups.
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>
> "TrickTrash" <guardclone-news@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:%23YwHrMUJFHA.2736@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> Ever since I installed the latest Microsoft Updates for XP (the 12? new
>> security updates following SP 2) I've had a problem with my system
>> suddenly rebooting.
>> I don't know if the two are related but during the updating process I
>> behaved very impatiently: I had only just turned on Auto-Updating &
>> didn't pay real attention, so didn't bother to understand it. I kept
>> stopping it, trying to cancel it & generally buggering about. (Don't ask
>> me why, just a wally I guess.) Eventually I got them installed. Anyway,
>> I uninstalled each of these updates but still had the same problem. So
>> now I've reinstalled them. What all that's worth, I don't know. But now
>> you know.
>>
>> What seems to happen is that the system seems to come up against an OS
>> problem or conflict, I think, decides to give up the ghost and reboot.
>> This most often happens with IE, when I try to go to a new website,
>> whether following a link or opening a new page. Somtimes immediately
>> after dial-up to my Home Page. Also, load times have increased hugely &
>> sometimes it just hangs forever, with the IE progress bar stalled part
>> way, though the computer still responds outside of IE. It doesn't seem
>> to happen with Firefox, but I've been getting far more 'Can't find
>> server' messages there, which I'm suspicious of.
>>
>> It's not just related to IE however. It also happens when I'm offline;
>> what seems to happen is, whilst it's doing something I ask of it, whether
>> OS based or some independant application, I try to interact with the
>> shell/OS components & it decides it's had enough again, gives up the
>> ghost & reboots.
>>
>> Beyond those bare facts I can't put my finger on anything more specific,
>> other than to say that, using X-Setup Pro, I've got the Windows Desktop &
>> Folder Windows "running in a separate process," if that matters. I have
>> tried running it without these options, but it doesn't seem to make a
>> difference, it's just that I think the problem is somewhere in there.
>> And I suspect that it's easily fixable if I know which settings to tinker
>> with. But that's just a feeling in my waters.
>>
>> I need some help to point me in the direction of what to investigate. I
>> don't know enough to narrow this down -I wouldn't describe myself as a
>> novice, more like a rank up from that, but being self-taught, there are
>> huge gaps in my understanding.
>>
>> I had just done a clean install after updating several hardware
>> components & the system was working really well.
>>
>> I'm pretty sure it's not to do with a virus/worm or other nasty; I'm
>> fairly security minded & run these programs in memory:
>>
>> Microsoft Antispyware
>> AVG AntiVirus
>> Pest Patrol
>> TrojanHunter
>> SpywareGuard
>> SpywareBlaster
>> ZoneAlarm Security Suite, with AntiVirus
>>
>> And I regularly run scans of these:
>>
>> Ad-Aware
>> Spybot
>> ewido Security Suite
>> Ghostbuster
>> The Cleaner
>> Stinger
>> CoolWebShredder
>> HijackThis
>>
>> And I recently did a TrendMicro online scan. Of course I realise I could
>> still be infected, but if I am, have no idea what to do about it beyond
>> the above.
>>
>> I'm using XP Pro & have a dial-up connection.
>>
>>
>> --
>> TrickTrash
>>
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