Weird crashes - Win Security Center conflict with anti-virus progr

[Guest]

Checking the Application logs in Event Viewer, I am getting a series of error
messages stating that Windows Security Center cannot establish connections
with third party Anti-Virus software and Firewall. Also errors that my
anti-spyware program is hanging.

I am using Windows firewall, not a third party program. I was using AVG
(free version) on this machine for months without a problem. I have been
using it on another machine for a year, and a third machine for several
years. All are running Win XP Pro SP2. I replaced AVG on the crashing machine
(my newest) with CA antivirus and I see the same problems. Also, on Windows
start, I get successive error messsages which say:

"Error caused by a device driver
Thank you for sending an error report to Microsoft.
Error report summary
Error type : Windows stop error (A message appears on a blue screen with
error code information)
Solution available? : No (see Next steps)
What does this error mean? : Windows has encountered an error from which it
cannot recover and needs to restart
Cause : Unknown device driver
Computer symptoms : A message appears on a blue screen with error code
information (for example: e.g. 0x0000001E, KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED)
Additional steps for you to take : Important: Please continue to send error
reports so analysts at Microsoft can study and try to correct the problem as
quickly as possible "

I just want to get my machine back to normal and working like all my other
computers, but I don't know what to do to make the Windows Security Center
behave. I don't want to repair the whole Windows installation, because that
means re-installing all the updates and hot fixes to SP2 and there are a lot
of them. Any ideas?

 

[Guest]

Have you tried using system restore to get the OS back to a pre-problem state?

 

[Guest]

No, but I have done complete, clean re-installs of Windows and all drivers
and apps and it still occurs. I suspect the culprit may be intel's onboard
audio and its audio app that cannot be uninstalled. Officially, their
response is to remove the audio driver after disabling the audio in CMOS
setup. But if you try to do that you get dire warnings from Windows that the
files used are critical to just about every other app on your system,
including Windows updates, hot fixes and security patches (111 apps or
services in my case) and no option to keep the file that may be shared. I'm
suspicious because intel's error dialog offers to sell you something. I have
filed a complaint with the feds, to see if that shakes anything out. My only
other idea is a bad motherboard or power supply. This system was made by MPC
(formerly Micron) and (obviously) has an intel motherboard. If you are
considering a purchase from either of these companies, you might want to
rethink it. My decision cost me 6 months of aggravation with little or no
cooperation from either company -- and no end to it in sight yet.