Geoff
The PXRD Driver is the reason I was asking about your anti-virus and
anti-spyware arrangements?
Are there any yellow question marks in Device Manager? Right click on
the My Computer icon on your Desktop and select Properties,
Hardware,Device Manager. If yes what is the Device Error code?
Try Start, Run, type "sigverif.exe" without quotes and hit OK. What
drivers are listed as unsigned? Disregard those which are not
checked. Does the computer boot into safe mode without any problems?
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Hope this helps.
Gerry
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geoffatmhg wrote:
Gerry
my AV is AVG 7.5 Malaware, paid for version so updates are
continual. Never had any problems with it.
Looked further into the last errors and noticed PXRD Driver.
Searched the net and found it is some sort of malaware. Downloaded
& installed a program called runscanner
http://www.runscanner.net/which
highlighted this and other poss.
faults. Fixed them and tried for a reboot. Failed first time, hung
up with a black screen and the hourglass. Successful on 2nd
attempt, a distinct improvement. Normally PC fails to boot and hangs on
blue "Welcome" screen with
either cursor or hour glass and occasionally with black screen just
before that.
Thanks again for all your help. Much appreciated. Still not 100% but
runscanner has helped a little.
Geoff
PS last error details bleow
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7000
Date: 22/09/2007
Time: 17:27:48
User: N/A
Computer: DEGEP
Description:
The twdns service failed to start due to the following error:
The system cannot find the path specified.
and also
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7000
Date: 22/09/2007
Time: 17:27:48
User: N/A
Computer: DEGEP
Description:
The USBDTT - USB 1.1 DVB-T adapter Driver service failed to start
due to the following error:
The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or
because it has no enabled devices associated with it.
Geoff
What are your anti-virus and anti-spyware arrangements?
However these latest reports are after a successful boot so they
may not be part of the problem but lesser problems.
Please describe exactly what happens when the computer fails to
boot?
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Hardware_Tshoot
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geoffatmhg wrote:
OK this is what I have done and here are the results.
Installed User Profile Hive Cleanup Service and it ran OK
Uninstalled PeerGuardian and have not reinstalled. It was a beta
version but the latest available.
I run Firefox v. 2. 0.0.7 latest version and occasionally IE 7 v.
7.0.5730.11 again the latest I think.
I then decided to reboot to see if it helped.
Sad to say not. It took 5 attempts before it eventually booted.
Attached are the error reports. They seem not to have appeared
before and these were at the time of the final and successful
attempt to boot. There are no error reports at the failed times.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7026
Date: 22/09/2007
Time: 15:30:58
User: N/A
Computer: DEGEP
Description:
The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
PXRDDriver
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7000
Date: 22/09/2007
Time: 15:30:58
User: N/A
Computer: DEGEP
Description:
The twdns service failed to start due to the following error:
The system cannot find the path specified.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7000
Date: 22/09/2007
Time: 15:30:58
User: N/A
Computer: DEGEP
Description:
The USBDTT - USB 1.1 DVB-T adapter Driver service failed to start
due to the following error:
The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or
because it has no enabled devices associated with it.
This may help with the first two errors.
Download and install the User Profile Hive Cleanup Service
Download details: User Profile Hive Cleanup Service
http://snipurl.com/5b61
UPHClean v1.5e readme.txt
http://snipurl.com/ko8m
The third error referring to pg2.exe relates to PeerGuardian.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerGuardian
Are you using the latest beta version of a previous version? What
browser are you using?
Do you need PeerGuardian? Have you looked at alternatives? How
frequently does the error occur? Uninstalling and reinstalling
may resolve the problem.
What version of AVG are you using. There is a specific forum for
AVG problems:
http://forum.grisoft.cz/freeforum/
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Gerry
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geoffatmhg wrote:
Hi Gerry
There are a several
Some are "warnings" like this on
Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Userenv
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1517
Date: 21/09/2007
Time: 17:29:01
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: DEGEP
Description:
Windows saved user DEGEP\Geoff registry while an application or
service was still using the registry during log off. The memory
used by the user's registry has not been freed. The registry
will be unloaded when it is no longer in use.
This is often caused by services running as a user account, try
configuring the services to run in either the LocalService or
NetworkService account.
and this
Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Userenv
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1524
Date: 21/09/2007
Time: 17:28:55
User: DEGEP\Geoff
Computer: DEGEP
Description:
Windows cannot unload your classes registry file - it is still
in use by other applications or services. The file will be
unloaded when it is no longer in use.
and others are errors like this
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Application Error
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1000
Date: 18/09/2007
Time: 15:04:34
User: N/A
Computer: DEGEP
Description:
Faulting application pg2.exe, version 1.0.6.4, faulting module
ntdll.dll, version 5.1.2600.2180, fault address 0x00018fea.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat
0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c ion Fail
0010: 75 72 65 20 20 70 67 32 ure pg2
0018: 2e 65 78 65 20 31 2e 30 .exe 1.0
0020: 2e 36 2e 34 20 69 6e 20 .6.4 in
0028: 6e 74 64 6c 6c 2e 64 6c ntdll.dl
0030: 6c 20 35 2e 31 2e 32 36 l 5.1.26
0038: 30 30 2e 32 31 38 30 20 00.2180
0040: 61 74 20 6f 66 66 73 65 at offse
0048: 74 20 30 30 30 31 38 66 t 00018f
0050: 65 61 0d 0a ea..
and this. There are several to do with AVG which works fine when
the PC has booted.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: AVG7
Event Category: Error
Event ID: 100
Date: 12/07/2007
Time: 09:48:05
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: DEGEP
Description:
2007-07-12 08:48:05,906 DEGEP [001264:001408] ERROR 000
AVG7.CORE DeviceIoControl failed, err=2
There are lots more but I dont want to drive you crazy.
I am grateful
Geoff
What Error / Warning reports ( if any ) appear in the System
log in Event Viewer when you last booted the machine?
Please post copies of all Error and Warning Reports appearing
in the System and Application logs in Event Viewer for the last
boot. No Information Reports or Duplicates please. Indicate
which also appear in a previous boot.
You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel,
Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer. When researching the
meaning of the error, information regarding Event ID, Source
and Description are important.
HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows
XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427/en-us
Part of the Description of the error will include a link, which
you should double click for further information. You can copy
using copy and paste. Often the link will, however, say there
is no further information.
http://go.microsoft.com/fw.link/events.asp
(Please note the hyperlink above is for illustration purposes
only) A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event
Viewer and
double click on the error you want to copy. In the window,
which appears is a button resembling two pages. Click the
button and close Event Viewer.Now start your message (email)
and do a paste into the body of the message. Make sure this is
the first paste after exiting from Event Viewer.
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Gerry
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geoffatmhg wrote:
Thanks Mark
Do you think that this is the cause of the problem of not
being able to reboot easily?
Geoff
Neither Win.ini, nor System.ini 'need' to exist in the
%windows% folder for Win XP to function normally. If they are
found, they are 'migrated' into the registry. I would delete
them. They may have been created by some old app you
installed, or even some attempt at a hack of your system. In
any case, getting rid of them is probably a good idea. --
Mark L. Ferguson
e-mail subject line must include "QZ" or it's deleted
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I am running Win XP SP2 with all the latest updates
installed + 2 Gigs of Ram and loads of hard disk space with
a 3.0 Ghz processor. My PC runs extremely well except when
it come to booting up. It will not boot up first 2nd or
even 3rd time. I have tried F8
and going to last known good setting which occasionally
works but not always. It hangs at the blue Welcome screen
and I have to reboot again. Before it finally boots up
correctly I get the following screen "Windows 3. x
Migration" You have installed Windows NT into an existing
Windows 3.x
Directory. You have the option of migrating portions of your
Win 3.x into the Windows NT environment. Please select below
the
parts you wish to migrate into the Windows NT environment.
Then there are 2 boxes the 1st is always ticked by default
and it says Migrate Windows 3. x win.ini and control.ini
The 2nd which I have never ticked says Migrate Windows 3.x
Program Manager and Group Files.
When either I close the box or leave it for about 30 seconds
the PC boots fine and runs beautifully until the next
attempt to reboot. Then the same happens.
Has any one any ideas how to remedy this weird problem and
also what might have caused it in the first place.
Short of a reinstall/repair I am lost.
BTW its boots into Safe Mode perfectly well.
TIA
Geoff
