Big Problems with New Computer (No Tech Support)

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From: Darin (darin.mobley_at_cingular.com)
Date: 06/30/04 

Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 09:40:10 -0700

Hi Alan,
   If I were you I'd get rid of Norton first. The last
time I re-imaged my pc I installed Norton (NAV and
Firewall) and had nothing but trouble with it. I removed
it and installed Mcafee and have had smooth sailing ever
since.

>-----Original Message-----
>My three week old XP Home computer that I built (hence
no
>tech support :-( )on occassions will get all the way to
>the desktop and then immediately reboot. This problem
>seemed to start happening after I ran a couple of
programs
>from Gibson Research (removed Instant Messenger; removed
>UPnP: turned DCOM off; and disabled RAW Sockets).
>It will do this one or two times and then boot
normally.
>It seems as if it happens when Norton Antivirus (NAV) or
>Norton personal Firewall (NPF) starts to load.
>I checked the event log and I get these messages:
>MSSQL$MICROSOFTBCM cannot be found.
>DHCP (sorry cannot remember message)
>I checked in sevices.msc and MSSQL$MICROSOFTBCM is set
to
>load "Automatically".
>I also have problems with a SVCHOST.EXE process
consuming
>50% of my CPU cycles seemingly after these reboots (with
>only NAV & NPF running). If I reboot the system then
the
>CPU usage at idle is 1%. The suspect SVCHOST is running
>the following services:
>AudioSrv; CryptSvc; Dhcp; EventSystem;
lanmanworkstation;
>Netman; Nla; RasMan; Schedule; SENS; SharedAccess;
>ShellHWDetection; srservice; TapiSrv; TermService;
Themes;
>uploadmgr; W32Time; winmgmt; wuauserv
>
>Any ideas anyone? I am getting very frustrated. I may
>have screwed things up by trying to practice Safe
>Computing. All I want is to get back to where I was
when
>I built the system - a good stable computer.
>Alan
>.
>

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