Re: Reboot several times a day

Hi Gerry,

Wow. That's a pretty amazing difference! Any idea why that would be? I do
have some very old applications running including a Windows 3.1 version of
Quattro Pro, compiled BASIC programs I wrote years ago, MS PDS 7.1 BASIC
development system (DOS application), etc.

My machine is about 3 years old. I installed XP Home just over 2 years ago.
I had originally installed XP over 98SE and that didn't work very well. So
I did a from-scratch, clean install of XP on new hard drives and reinstalled
all my software (at great expense to the management).

I installed SP2 about a year ago, I think, and began having these problems
about 6 months ago. I have replaced everything except the motherboard and
CPU in this machine in an attempt to get rid of these errors. I have even
swapped the power supply in the tower case thinking I might be running on the
edge because of all of the devices installed.

Regarding other errors in event viewer, I discovered something I had not
seen before. I am getting groups of 10 to 20 errors at a time on a hard
disk. Over the past 3 weeks, the errors have moved from one disk to another
as far as the id in the event viewer is concerned. I've copied one of them
here for you to see:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Disk
Event Category: None
Event ID: 15
Date: 12/27/2005
Time: 7:35:07 PM
User: N/A
Computer: LELAND-0W5ECG4U
Description:
The device, \Device\Harddisk3\D, is not ready for access yet.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 00 00 68 00 01 00 b6 00 ..h...¶.
0008: 00 00 00 00 0f 00 04 c0 .......À
0010: 04 01 00 00 9d 00 00 c0 ......À
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0028: 8f 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .......
0030: ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 ÿÿÿÿ....
0038: 40 00 00 0a 00 00 00 00 @.......
0040: 02 20 06 12 48 01 20 00 . ..H. .
0048: c0 00 00 00 3c 00 00 00 À...<...
0050: 20 54 e9 82 00 17 eb 82 Té‚..ë‚
0058: 00 00 00 00 20 cf 16 83 .... Ï.ƒ
0060: 00 10 58 ba 00 00 00 00 ..Xº....
0068: 1a 00 1c 00 c0 00 00 00 ....À...
0070: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0078: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0088: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

I have seen these same errors for harddisk2, harddisk3 and harddisk4 in the
event viewer. I never see anything externally; didn't know they were
happening until today. All my harddrives (4 IDE and 2 USB) are just fine as
far as I can tell.

Sometimes these errors occur just before one of the crashes, sometimes they
occur and there is no crash so I'm not sure they are related to the crashes.

I am going to go through the device manager and try an 'update driver' for
each device on my system tonight. Windows update doesn't indicate that there
is anything needed but maybe I will find something new in that effort. What
do you think? Is there a different place I should be looking for device
drivers?

Thanks again for your continuing efforts.

--
Leland


"Gerry Cornell" wrote:

> Leland
>
> No you've come up with an unexpected and unhelpful result.
>
> This is illustrated by the result on my own machine.
>
> Found: 3345 Signed: 2346 Unsigned: 10 Files not scanned: 989
>
> which compares to yours
>
> Found: 3239 Signed: 42 Unsigned: 2231 Files not scanned: 96
>
> How old is your machine?
>
> Are there any other Warning or Error Reports in Event Viewer?
>
> Was the machine ever free of these errors?
>
> --
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Gerry
> ~~~~
> FCA
> Stourport, England
>
> Enquire, plan and execute
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
> "Leland Sheppard" <LelandSheppard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> message news:C10A5758-2129-4127-8FA7-D6AF4A9A43BD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Hi Gerry,
> >
> > I'm afraid I'm confused period... :-)
> >
> > I thought you were referring to a check mark/icon that would be placed
> > next
> > to an entry or some such thing.
> >
> > I understand (I think) signed and unsigned but I guess I don't understand
> > unchecked.
> >
> > I just went through sigverif.exe and through the log file that it
> > produced.
> > I can't find anything like "checked", "not checked" or "unchecked"; just
> > "not
> > signed".
> >
> > I also reran sigverif.exe to get the counts again on it's status line.
> > They
> > are:
> >
> > Found: 3239 Signed: 42 Unsigned: 2231 Files not scanned: 966
> >
> > Am I missing the point completely?
> >
> > --
> > Leland
> >
> >
> > "Gerry Cornell" wrote:
> >
> >> Leland
> >>
> >> There are three types. Signed, unsigned and unchecked.
> >>
> >> Disregard those unchecked and list those unsigned.
> >>
> >> Are you confusing unchecked for unsigned?
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> Hope this helps.
> >>
> >> Gerry
> >> ~~~~
> >> FCA
> >> Stourport, England
> >>
> >> Enquire, plan and execute
> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >>
> >>
> >> "Leland Sheppard" <LelandSheppard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> >> message news:483D3BFF-FF90-43A7-AE45-617C1A5284BF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> > Hi Gerry,
> >> >
> >> > Thanks for your continuing efforts.
> >> >
> >> > I tried using the link in the original event viewer window and it says
> >> > no
> >> > additional information is available.
> >> >
> >> > I also checked device manager and displayed hidden devices as well.
> >> > There
> >> > are NO question marks on any device.
> >> >
> >> > I ran sigverif.exe and it shows that there are thousands of files that
> >> > are
> >> > not signed. I sorted by file type and then by directory. There are 15
> >> > or
> >> > 20
> >> > .drv files in the list and a bunch more .sys files in the
> >> > system32/driver
> >> > folder that are listed. But I didn't see any with a check mark
> >> > anywhere
> >> > in
> >> > the list. There is a small icon to the left edge of the screen that
> >> > looks
> >> > like a horizontal double arrow; that wouldn't be the check mark, would
> >> > it?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks again.
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Leland
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>
.

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