New hard drive locks up

[howard]

The PC store said my aborts were the problem of my flaky old drive, so
I got a new one. Now the new one locks up. The Event viewer shows
nothing happening for hours until I turn off my computer, although the
screen is showing whatever it showed at the time.

Various Event Properties at the lock up show:

TraceLevel parameter not located in registry;Default trace level used
is 32

Fault bucket 96924935

Faulting application NOPDB.exe, version 17.0.0.83, faulting module
sdntdrv.dll, version 17.0.0.83, fault address 0x0000055e0

The description for EVENT ID ( 1020 ) in Source ( Speed Disk service )
cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary
registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a
remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE = flag to
retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The
following information is part of the event: D:. (no information
followed)

The COM+ Event system detected a bad return code during its internal
processing. HRESULT was 8001010D from line 44 of
d:\qxp_slp\com\com1x\src\events\tier1\eventsystemobj.cpp. Please
contact Microsoft Product Support Services to report this error.

TraceFileName parameter not located in registry; Default trace file
used is.

The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
viaagp1

The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) service terminated with the
following error:
The system cannot find the path specified.

TraceFileName parameter not located in registry; Default trace file
used is.
32.

The service metabase path '/LM/SMTPSVC/' could not be opened. The data
is the error code.

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I haven't used Office products including Exchange. Microsoft
Antispyware is active, Norton Antivirus is active and current. Sygate
Security Agent says - Home, Host Integrity Result - Passed, & Server
Connection Status - Disconnected. (I need Sygate to get my VPN
connection working, but so far haven't got it working - before nor
after my new hard drive - possibly due to my router).

 

[R. McCarty]

Uh, Wow - Sounds like you need a general "Clean & Tweak". Speed
Disk raises a red flag, especially in light of drive issues. Those type of
Events would indicate Service issues and some driver problems also. I
honestly don't know where to advise you start. Probably, in Add/Rem
in Control Panel to remove old/unnecessary applications. After that I
would update Chipset, Video drivers and do a really comprehensive
Malware check.

 

[Malke]

The PC store said my aborts were the problem of my flaky old drive, so
I got a new one. Now the new one locks up. The Event viewer shows
nothing happening for hours until I turn off my computer, although the
screen is showing whatever it showed at the time.

(snip)

Please see my answer to your first post. Please keep posts about one
subject in one thread. If you can't find your post, use Google Groups
Advanced Search and look for your name.

Malke

 

[Howard Brazee]

Please see my answer to your first post. Please keep posts about one
subject in one thread. If you can't find your post, use Google Groups
Advanced Search and look for your name.

I used Google to post that message and it told me that it did not get
my message, please try again. I tried again, and ended up with two
messages.