"Serious Error" after NAV 2004 Upgrade

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Don Cohen

I have a well-maintained WinXP Home Gateway, all critical updates applied,
which has been perfectly stable. My NAV 2003 subscription was about to
expire, so I went ahead and purchased the 2004 Upgrade. I have done this or
similar tasks on my laptop and various children's computers over the years.
I consider myself fairly competent and this is usually a no-brainer.

During the installation, I received the following:

MS Visual C++ Runtime Library:
Runtime Error
Program: c:\winnt\system32\MsciExec.exe
Abnormal Program Termination

NAV continued its install uneventfully, and everything seemed fine.

When it rebooted to complete the installation, I started encountering:

"System has recovered from a serious error."

I ignored this, and NAV continued its full scan of my drives, with nothing
found.

I clicked OK on this "Serious Error," it came back, clicked again, and after
a few more tries it disappeared and I was able to use my system as usual.

I rebooted again, and when the reboot was essentially complete, the "Serious
Error" message recurred, and again after about 4-5 clicks on the OK,
everything settled down.

The timing, logic and common sense certainly suggest quite strongly that the
NAV 2004 Upgrade triggered this problem. A search of the NAV knowledge base
failed to turn up anything useful, and the same with a Google search of the
newsgroups.

Examining some of the files generated, I found this one "manifest.txt" along
with a "sysdata.xml" created at the same time. The manifest file contains
this:

Server=watson.microsoft.com
UI LCID=1033
Flags=123154
Brand=WINDOWS
TitleName=Microsoft Windows
DigPidRegPath=HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\DigitalProductId
RegSubPath=Microsoft\PCHealth\ErrorReporting\DW
ErrorText=A log of this error has been created.
HeaderText=The system has recovered from a serious error.
Stage2URL=
Stage2URL=/dw/bluetwo.asp?BCCode=10000050&BCP1=B78CCF5C&BCP2=00000000&BCP3=B
78CCF5C&BCP4=00000000&OSVer=5_1_2600&SP=1_0&Product=768_1
DataFiles=C:\WINNT\Minidump\Mini022104-02.dmp|C:\DOCUME~1\Don\LOCALS~1\Temp\
WER20.tmp.dir00\sysdata.xml
ErrorSubPath=blue

The "Serious Error" box referred to minidump files, but the only ones I
found were from 02/21/04 (I was having some hardware issues at the time,
eventually resolved by a motherboard replacement).

This is obviously disconcerting. Any help appreciated on tracking down this
"Serious Error."

Thanks!

--
Don
Photo Website at:
http://www.dlcphotography.net

[Remove the "lens cap" for email]
 
K

Kaylene aka Taurarian

Hope this helps
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q308041
Resources for Troubleshooting Startup Problems in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q317277
You Receive a "System Has Recovered from a Serious Error" Message After Every
Restart

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316424
Error Message: The System Has Recovered from a Serious Problem

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?releaseid=36920
Windows XP Patch: System Recovery Error Appears After Every Reboot


Don Cohen said:
I have a well-maintained WinXP Home Gateway, all critical updates applied,
which has been perfectly stable. My NAV 2003 subscription was about to
expire, so I went ahead and purchased the 2004 Upgrade. I have done this or
similar tasks on my laptop and various children's computers over the years.
I consider myself fairly competent and this is usually a no-brainer.

During the installation, I received the following:

MS Visual C++ Runtime Library:
Runtime Error
Program: c:\winnt\system32\MsciExec.exe
Abnormal Program Termination

NAV continued its install uneventfully, and everything seemed fine.

When it rebooted to complete the installation, I started encountering:

"System has recovered from a serious error."

I ignored this, and NAV continued its full scan of my drives, with nothing
found.

I clicked OK on this "Serious Error," it came back, clicked again, and after
a few more tries it disappeared and I was able to use my system as usual.

I rebooted again, and when the reboot was essentially complete, the "Serious
Error" message recurred, and again after about 4-5 clicks on the OK,
everything settled down.

The timing, logic and common sense certainly suggest quite strongly that the
NAV 2004 Upgrade triggered this problem. A search of the NAV knowledge base
failed to turn up anything useful, and the same with a Google search of the
newsgroups.

Examining some of the files generated, I found this one "manifest.txt" along
with a "sysdata.xml" created at the same time. The manifest file contains
this:

Server=watson.microsoft.com
UI LCID=1033
Flags=123154
Brand=WINDOWS
TitleName=Microsoft Windows
DigPidRegPath=HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\DigitalProductId
RegSubPath=Microsoft\PCHealth\ErrorReporting\DW
ErrorText=A log of this error has been created.
HeaderText=The system has recovered from a serious error.
Stage2URL=
Stage2URL=/dw/bluetwo.asp?BCCode=10000050&BCP1=B78CCF5C&BCP2=00000000&BCP3=B
78CCF5C&BCP4=00000000&OSVer=5_1_2600&SP=1_0&Product=768_1
DataFiles=C:\WINNT\Minidump\Mini022104-02.dmp|C:\DOCUME~1\Don\LOCALS~1\Temp\
WER20.tmp.dir00\sysdata.xml
ErrorSubPath=blue

The "Serious Error" box referred to minidump files, but the only ones I
found were from 02/21/04 (I was having some hardware issues at the time,
eventually resolved by a motherboard replacement).

This is obviously disconcerting. Any help appreciated on tracking down this
"Serious Error."

Thanks!

--
Don
Photo Website at:
http://www.dlcphotography.net

[Remove the "lens cap" for email]
 
D

Don Cohen

I appreciate your post and the links. I have seen 3 of them, and checked
out the 4th. None of them really apply to my situation, unfortunately.

It seems clear that NAV 2004 did something during the Upgrade, so if the
problem persists, I'll likely have to completely uninstall it, make sure the
problem is resolved, and then try a re-install.

I was curious to see if this occurrence had been reported by others,
hopefully with some simpler fix, but it looks like I'll end up having to go
the uninstall/reinstall route.

But I do appreciate your time and post.

--
Don
Photo Website at:
http://www.dlcphotography.net

[Remove the "lens cap" for email]

Kaylene aka Taurarian said:
Hope this helps
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q308041
Resources for Troubleshooting Startup Problems in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q317277
You Receive a "System Has Recovered from a Serious Error" Message After Every
Restart

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316424
Error Message: The System Has Recovered from a Serious Problem

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?releaseid=36920
Windows XP Patch: System Recovery Error Appears After Every Reboot


Don Cohen said:
I have a well-maintained WinXP Home Gateway, all critical updates applied,
which has been perfectly stable. My NAV 2003 subscription was about to
expire, so I went ahead and purchased the 2004 Upgrade. I have done this or
similar tasks on my laptop and various children's computers over the years.
I consider myself fairly competent and this is usually a no-brainer.

During the installation, I received the following:

MS Visual C++ Runtime Library:
Runtime Error
Program: c:\winnt\system32\MsciExec.exe
Abnormal Program Termination

NAV continued its install uneventfully, and everything seemed fine.

When it rebooted to complete the installation, I started encountering:

"System has recovered from a serious error."

I ignored this, and NAV continued its full scan of my drives, with nothing
found.

I clicked OK on this "Serious Error," it came back, clicked again, and after
a few more tries it disappeared and I was able to use my system as usual.

I rebooted again, and when the reboot was essentially complete, the "Serious
Error" message recurred, and again after about 4-5 clicks on the OK,
everything settled down.

The timing, logic and common sense certainly suggest quite strongly that the
NAV 2004 Upgrade triggered this problem. A search of the NAV knowledge base
failed to turn up anything useful, and the same with a Google search of the
newsgroups.

Examining some of the files generated, I found this one "manifest.txt" along
with a "sysdata.xml" created at the same time. The manifest file contains
this:

Server=watson.microsoft.com
UI LCID=1033
Flags=123154
Brand=WINDOWS
TitleName=Microsoft Windows
DigPidRegPath=HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\DigitalProductId
RegSubPath=Microsoft\PCHealth\ErrorReporting\DW
ErrorText=A log of this error has been created.
HeaderText=The system has recovered from a serious error.
Stage2URL=
Stage2URL=/dw/bluetwo.asp?BCCode=10000050&BCP1=B78CCF5C&BCP2=00000000&BCP3=B
78CCF5C&BCP4=00000000&OSVer=5_1_2600&SP=1_0&Product=768_1
DataFiles=C:\WINNT\Minidump\Mini022104-02.dmp|C:\DOCUME~1\Don\LOCALS~1\Temp\
WER20.tmp.dir00\sysdata.xml
ErrorSubPath=blue

The "Serious Error" box referred to minidump files, but the only ones I
found were from 02/21/04 (I was having some hardware issues at the time,
eventually resolved by a motherboard replacement).

This is obviously disconcerting. Any help appreciated on tracking down this
"Serious Error."

Thanks!

--
Don
Photo Website at:
http://www.dlcphotography.net

[Remove the "lens cap" for email]
 
K

Kaylene aka Taurarian

Apparently you're not alone:
http://www.computergripes.com/nortonantivirus2004.html
Looking like the uninstall/reinstall route.


Don Cohen said:
I appreciate your post and the links. I have seen 3 of them, and checked
out the 4th. None of them really apply to my situation, unfortunately.

It seems clear that NAV 2004 did something during the Upgrade, so if the
problem persists, I'll likely have to completely uninstall it, make sure the
problem is resolved, and then try a re-install.

I was curious to see if this occurrence had been reported by others,
hopefully with some simpler fix, but it looks like I'll end up having to go
the uninstall/reinstall route.

But I do appreciate your time and post.

--
Don
Photo Website at:
http://www.dlcphotography.net

[Remove the "lens cap" for email]

Kaylene aka Taurarian said:
Hope this helps
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q308041
Resources for Troubleshooting Startup Problems in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q317277
You Receive a "System Has Recovered from a Serious Error" Message After Every
Restart

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316424
Error Message: The System Has Recovered from a Serious Problem

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?releaseid=36920
Windows XP Patch: System Recovery Error Appears After Every Reboot


Don Cohen said:
I have a well-maintained WinXP Home Gateway, all critical updates applied,
which has been perfectly stable. My NAV 2003 subscription was about to
expire, so I went ahead and purchased the 2004 Upgrade. I have done this or
similar tasks on my laptop and various children's computers over the years.
I consider myself fairly competent and this is usually a no-brainer.

During the installation, I received the following:

MS Visual C++ Runtime Library:
Runtime Error
Program: c:\winnt\system32\MsciExec.exe
Abnormal Program Termination

NAV continued its install uneventfully, and everything seemed fine.

When it rebooted to complete the installation, I started encountering:

"System has recovered from a serious error."

I ignored this, and NAV continued its full scan of my drives, with nothing
found.

I clicked OK on this "Serious Error," it came back, clicked again, and after
a few more tries it disappeared and I was able to use my system as usual.

I rebooted again, and when the reboot was essentially complete, the "Serious
Error" message recurred, and again after about 4-5 clicks on the OK,
everything settled down.

The timing, logic and common sense certainly suggest quite strongly that the
NAV 2004 Upgrade triggered this problem. A search of the NAV knowledge base
failed to turn up anything useful, and the same with a Google search of the
newsgroups.

Examining some of the files generated, I found this one "manifest.txt" along
with a "sysdata.xml" created at the same time. The manifest file contains
this:

Server=watson.microsoft.com
UI LCID=1033
Flags=123154
Brand=WINDOWS
TitleName=Microsoft Windows
DigPidRegPath=HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\DigitalProductId
RegSubPath=Microsoft\PCHealth\ErrorReporting\DW
ErrorText=A log of this error has been created.
HeaderText=The system has recovered from a serious error.
Stage2URL=
Stage2URL=/dw/bluetwo.asp?BCCode=10000050&BCP1=B78CCF5C&BCP2=00000000&BCP3=B
78CCF5C&BCP4=00000000&OSVer=5_1_2600&SP=1_0&Product=768_1
DataFiles=C:\WINNT\Minidump\Mini022104-02.dmp|C:\DOCUME~1\Don\LOCALS~1\Temp\
WER20.tmp.dir00\sysdata.xml
ErrorSubPath=blue

The "Serious Error" box referred to minidump files, but the only ones I
found were from 02/21/04 (I was having some hardware issues at the time,
eventually resolved by a motherboard replacement).

This is obviously disconcerting. Any help appreciated on tracking down this
"Serious Error."

Thanks!

--
Don
Photo Website at:
http://www.dlcphotography.net

[Remove the "lens cap" for email]
 

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