Re: Reboot several times a day

Hi Gerry,

I will try HD tune and post the results.

I have 4 internal IDE drives and 2 external on USB. I have had 3 different
raid setups on 2 different controllers but they are all out of the system
now. I was using either RAID 0 or 1; one controller on the MB the other was
PCI based. 2 of the IDE drives are on the MB controller, 2 are on a Promise
PCI-based IDE controller. The two USB HDs are usually turned off.

The older programs are all applications and none of them have ever been
running when the error occurred. All of the drivers came with XP or were
downloaded from MS. In fact, on a number of occasions, the error has
occurred after bootup when I have run nothing. I turned on the system,
walked away, and at some point it had the error and rebooted - I had done
nothing except turn on the switch.

Whatever this is, it is something relatively new. I ran XP for the first
two years with very few problems.

I went through EVERY device in the device manager last night and clicked on
update driver. Only one found an update. I have an HP PSC750XI
(printer/scanner/copier - USB attached) and the "new" driver was also
unsigned, downloaded from MS and is on the system now. I also updated the
BIOS just in case that has had anything to do with what has been happening.

I am very curious about the date of your system, did you build it, etc.
Your thousands of signed files is amazing to me since most of the unsigned
files I have came from MS. Many of them are dated 2001. Yours must be later
than that but I'm curious how much later.

Thanks.

--
Leland


"Gerry Cornell" wrote:

> Leland
>
> Running programmes written long before the introduction of Windows XP
> does raise all kinds of issues. These links may help:
>
> How to Troubleshoot 16-Bit Windows Programs in Windows XP
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314495
>
> Error message when you install or start an MS-DOS or 16-bit Windows-based
> program
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;324767&Product=winxp
>
> Run Older Programs on Windows XP
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/learnmore/appcompat.mspx
>
> How to use the Program Compatibility Wizard in Windows XP
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;301911
>
> Note the references to drivers.
>
> Some users running older programmes run dual boot systems. However, setting
> up a
> dual boot system needs to have the older operating system installed before
> XP. It
> makes for a complicated system and having tried it for a time I found the
> trouble not
> worth the gain.
>
> I would consider whether the operations carried out on older programmes
> could be
> migrated to programmes and versions intended for use with Windows XP.
>
> How many hard drives are installed? Are any removable / external? Are you
> using
> RAID?
>
> Try HD Tune (freeware). Download and run it and see what it turns up.
> http://www.hdtune.com/
>
> Select the Info tabs and place the cursor on C:\ under Drive letter
> and then double click the two page icon ( copy to
> Clipboard ) and copy into a further message.
>
> Select the Health tab and then double click the two page icon ( copy to
> Clipboard ) and copy into a further message.
>
> Also do a full surface scan with HD Tune.
>
> --
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Gerry
> ~~~~
> FCA
> Stourport, England
>
> Enquire, plan and execute
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
> "Leland Sheppard" <LelandSheppard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> message news:29D890E6-9E0F-4513-8131-EB252AE9F6DA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 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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