After SP1, not dead but not healthy either - ideas?

[Julian]

Vista HP, Rock Xtrem CTX Pro laptop, mfr installed Vista...

I do have a Full C partition backup AND a System State backup made with
Acronis True Image 11 immediately before installing SP1, and for a couple of
days I will have the pre-SP1 System Restore point, so if all else fails I
can back out one way or another, but I'd rather understand what's gone wrong
and fix it... if you can help, please do!

SP1 installed OK; then got BSOD on 1st wake from sleep after 1st restart;
next day refusal to wake up in the morning (lots of disk activity but blank
screen); BSOD on shutdown a bit later; couldn't create a System Restore
Point (couldn't rescan disk, some other problem with the Properties tab of
System Protection) and new warnings in the Event Log for
Kernel-Processor-Power (such notifications newly introduced with SP1) which
seem to coincide with the BSOD's...

Has MS done something with CPU power management that's interfering with
Sleep/Wake???

BTW - the first BSOD lead to Vista submitting a Problem Report that resulted
in a message saying "Install Windows Driver" - which (still?) fails to say
what driver or provide any links to KB, driver source or anywhere and as
such is unhelpful in the extreme. Any ideas *which* driver or how to find
out? Or is it just a completely inappropriate message?

And what went wrong with SR/System Protection, the failure of the link to
online Event help (VBS referenced a URL file that didn't exist), the odd
httpEvent since SP1 "Unable to initialize the security package Kerberos for
server side authentication"..., the almost trivial (but worrying by
implication) Outlook 2002 send/receive failure triangle not painting
properly...

.... and these are only the problems I've found in 48 hours <sigh>

I have lodged a support request with MS and will post back if I get answers
to the above from the horse's mouth, but in the meantime...

TIA

 

[dev]

/Julian/ said:

Vista HP, Rock Xtrem CTX Pro laptop, mfr installed Vista...

I do have a Full C partition backup AND a System State backup made
with Acronis True Image 11 immediately before installing SP1, and for
a couple of days I will have the pre-SP1 System Restore point, so
if all else fails I can back out one way or another, but I'd rather
understand what's gone wrong and fix it... if you can help, please
do!

SP1 installed OK; then got BSOD on 1st wake from sleep after 1st
restart; next day refusal to wake up in the morning (lots of disk
activity but blank screen); BSOD on shutdown a bit later; couldn't
create a System Restore Point (couldn't rescan disk, some other
problem with the Properties tab of System Protection) and new
warnings in the Event Log for Kernel-Processor-Power (such
notifications newly introduced with SP1) which seem to coincide with
the BSOD's...

Has MS done something with CPU power management that's interfering
with Sleep/Wake???

BTW - the first BSOD lead to Vista submitting a Problem Report that
resulted in a message saying "Install Windows Driver" - which
(still?) fails to say what driver or provide any links to KB, driver
source or anywhere and as such is unhelpful in the extreme. Any ideas
*which* driver or how to find out? Or is it just a completely
inappropriate message?

And what went wrong with SR/System Protection, the failure of the
link to online Event help (VBS referenced a URL file that didn't
exist), the odd httpEvent since SP1 "Unable to initialize the
security package Kerberos for server side authentication"..., the
almost trivial (but worrying by implication) Outlook 2002
send/receive failure triangle not painting properly...

... and these are only the problems I've found in 48 hours <sigh>

I have lodged a support request with MS and will post back if I get
answers to the above from the horse's mouth, but in the meantime...

Just FYI,
I see the identical Kernel-Processor and HTTP event viewer errors, post
SP1 install, yet the system is running smoothly. Others report the
same, and some suggest simply ignoring the errors.

Thus, your problems - which hint at driver incompatibility - may lie
elsewhere.

 

[Julian]

/Julian/ said:

Just FYI,
I see the identical Kernel-Processor and HTTP event viewer errors, post
SP1 install, yet the system is running smoothly. Others report the
same, and some suggest simply ignoring the errors.

Thus, your problems - which hint at driver incompatibility - may lie
elsewhere.

Thanks for the reassurance about the Kernel-Processor and HTTP events...

When the screen blew up so that I was seeing only the top left corner of
what looked like a the full res screen mapped into 640x480 I rolled back
(System Restore successful - but slow!), updated the nVidia Go 7950 GTX
driver and reinstalled SP1 and haven't had a BSOD since, despite several
sleep/wake cycles....

Fingers crossed... Outlook Send/Receive icons are still wrong (may try the
drivers from http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/) but otherwise, looking
better...

Thanks