Looks like Windows is corrupting itself regurlarly

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Lester Stiefel

Its only been a week since the last problem forcing a
reformat, and now during install of a music manager and a
photo organizer, I receive a "Jet broken" alert, and the
system crashes. Also the aV said the restore area had a dll
file which had a variant of the baggle worm, when I had
never open a email or news attachment that had it.

I wonder if MS has some problems with code in their updates
that can cause this issue.
 
Lester said:
Its only been a week since the last problem forcing a
reformat, and now during install of a music manager and a
photo organizer, I receive a "Jet broken" alert, and the
system crashes. Also the aV said the restore area had a dll
file which had a variant of the baggle worm, when I had
never open a email or news attachment that had it.

I wonder if MS has some problems with code in their updates
that can cause this issue.
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Have you downloaded and utilized the hard disk drive manufacturer's
Diagnostic Utility?

Tested your system memory?

Before you connected your machine to the Internet the first time - was SP2
installed and the Windows Firewall enabled?

Which antivirus application are you running and how is it updated?

What antispyware solutions have you utilized?

How are you applying the Windows Updates? I suggest "Autodownload and
Notify" so you can be choicey about what you install but still be
automagically informed when you actually have a choice.
 
Lester

Please check Event Viewer for Warning / Error Reports in the System and
Application logs for the last boot and post copies.

You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, 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/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308427&sd=tech

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. This will paste the info from the Event Viewer Error Report
into the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from
Event Viewer.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England

Enquire, plan and execute
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what Shenan said; check the likely culprits: badware, bad ram, bad power
supply, bad HD, bad temps.

http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/

http://www.memtest.org/

Hitachi, Seagate/Maxtor, Toshiba all have utils that can check their
respective HDs. Google for 'em.

As for bad PS, after ruling out the others you could try temporarily
unplugging anything that you don't have to have (extra opticals, HDs, etc)
and see if it's better, or better still ask a friend if they have an extra
good-brand-name PS and try it out in your box. An awful lot of "no-name"
PS's are really pieces of junk and often go bad in a short time.

Finally, check your temps - excess heat can cause sporadic flakyness.
You MoBo maker should have a util to monitor temps/voltages, if not see if
Motherboard Monitor will work with your setup:

http://mbm.livewiredev.com/

Clean out any dust bunnies, check for airflow restrictions (like wide HD
ribbon cables, route them so as to not block anything).
 
Shenan said:
Have you downloaded and utilized the hard disk drive manufacturer's
Diagnostic Utility? Yes--Drive passes.

Tested your system memory? All 768MB accounted for, Passes tests.

Before you connected your machine to the Internet the first time - was SP2
installed and the Windows Firewall enabled? Yes to both

Which antivirus application are you running and how is it updated? I use AVAST4 and update automatically.
Click to expand...
Also 3 spyware solutions: Spywareblaster, Ad-Aware, Spybot SD - all
regularly updated.
What antispyware solutions have you utilized? Above

How are you applying the Windows Updates? I suggest "Autodownload and
Notify" so you can be choicey about what you install but still be
automagically informed when you actually have a choice.
Automatically, after 3PM each day.
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All updates are installed, except the DotNetFramework.

There is a series of 'Application Popups' in the log at cold bootup.

btw - I've been tearing my hair out on this for 2 or 3 months, with no
satisfaction, and now I could wind up in the hospital as a sideline
related to this. Not a pretty thought.
 
Lester

Please check Event Viewer for Warning / Error Reports in the System and
Application logs for the last boot and post copies.

You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, 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/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308427&sd=tech

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. This will paste the info from the Event Viewer Error Report
into the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from
Event Viewer.

--

Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England

Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
Gerry said:
Lester

Please check Event Viewer for Warning / Error Reports in the System and
Application logs for the last boot and post copies.

You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, 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/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308427&sd=tech

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. This will paste the info from the Event Viewer Error Report
into the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from
Event Viewer.
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I do get "application popups" - windows cannot access a driver (of some
sort. The literature I have been able to gather tends to point towards
premature HDD failure, and I'm also thinking along lines of possible HDD
controller failure ( not totally, but isufficient for the task).
On indicator I got when I changed the BIOS battery, was "NVram checksum
bad"- I would normally think that the bios would warn of low or no
battery (not bad checksum)
 
Lester

Have you checked your Event Viewer logs? We need copies
of reports!

I would 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 the drive 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.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England

Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
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