Jon Tydda
jon at tydda.plus.com
Fri Mar 21 13:57:40 CDT 2008
I gave up... took the hard drive out and reinstalled Windows on the other
200gb hard drive. Gave me the opportunity to install the lightscribe DVD
writer I had, as well as the multi-card reader that was lying around too.
Life's too short to troubleshoot WMI errors :-)
Jon
-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
Sent: 20 March 2008 16:17
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Computer issues...
Hi Jon:
Look for the word 'denied' or other similar text in the WMIDIAG report.
Another go way to trace a permissions error is to run the Process Monitor.
Run the monitor, run the process that would create the WMI error and then
stop the monitor. Within its few hundred lines of summary it will show the
exact process being run, file being accessed and the error response. That
way you should be able to find the offending file. It may be a directory,
file or registry permissions or corruption error.
This process should bring the resolution closer.
HTH
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jon Tydda
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 5:57 AM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Computer issues...
Yeah, me too.
The WMI tool came up with some errors that might be causing the problem, but
as too how I change the permissions on it, I just don't know. It says to
just use the WMIMGMT.MSC tool. So I open that up and it's empty...
Plus there are over 23000 lines of WMIDIAG report to read.
Jon
-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gary Kjos
Sent: 20 March 2008 12:45
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Computer issues...
Thanks Helmut. You are right in saying that everyone should have one of
these Ultimate Boot CD's. I'm downloading my CD image right now.
GK
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Helmut Kotsch <hkotsch at arcor.de> wrote:
> Definitely also runs from a CD. Should also boot from an USB-Stick.
> Have not tried that jet. Talking of waste of a CD, you should google
> for "Ultimate Boot CD": This will give you a large selection of free
> downloadable CD-images that contain besides Memtest86 a lot of useful
utilities.
> Everybody working with PC's should have one of these CD's available.
>
>
> Helmut
>
> -----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
> Von: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]Im Auftrag von Jon
> Tydda
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 19. Marz 2008 23:02
>
>
> An: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
> Betreff: Re: [dba-Tech] Computer issues...
>
>
> I haven't run Memtest... I don't have a floppy drive any more :-)
>
> Can it be run from a cd? Although it seems such a waste of a cd...
>
>
> Jon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Helmut
> Kotsch
> Sent: 19 March 2008 20:12
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Computer issues...
>
> Hi Jim:
> Did you run the memory test? If not, get Memtest86 at
> www.memtest86.com/ build a floppy and let that run for a few hours.
> It is my experience that if you have a memory problem you can get all
> kinds of error messages that lead you in the wrong direction and waste
your time.
>
> Helmut
>
> -----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
> Von: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]Im Auftrag von Jim
> Lawrence
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 19. Marz 2008 21:01
> An: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
> Betreff: Re: [dba-Tech] Computer issues...
>
>
> Hi Jon:
>
> That is an ugly error; very difficult to resolve. I took a quick scan
> of various help sites where this issue is discussed.
>
> There are a couple of tools suggested like: "WMI Diagnosis Utility"
>
> (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d7ba3cd6-18d
> 1-4d05 -b11e-4c64192ae97d&displaylang=en)and the "Process Monitor" at
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/86a95979-23f8-45f5-948
> 0-f4ed
> 9dab3aab.aspx?wt.svl=leftnav
> Which will not solve a problem by will point you to the
> point/file/registry that failed. The failed file could either be
> corrupt or most likely have some permissions issues.
>
> HTH
> Jim
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jon Tydda
> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 12:16 PM
> To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Computer issues...
>
> I'm getting lots of these in the Event Log. Googling the DCOM server
> tells me that it's WMI that's the problem. However, I've now run
> chkdsk on all my drives, as well as run a system restore to a point
> before the problems started, and I still can't log in.
>
> Event Type: Error
> Event Source: DCOM
> Event Category: None
> Event ID: 10000
> Date: 19/03/2008
> Time: 18:04:18
> User: NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE
> Computer: JT2B
> Description:
> Unable to start a DCOM Server:
> {73E709EA-5D93-4B2E-BBB0-99B7938DA9E4}. The
> error:
> "%%0"
> Happened while starting this command:
> %1
>
> I found a page that told me to look at Component Services in Control
> Panels/Administrative Tools, but it fails to open for me. Think it's
> time to dig out the install CD...
>
>
> Jon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim
> Lawrence
> Sent: 19 March 2008 16:27
> To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Computer issues...
>
> Hi Jon:
>
> Have you checked the fans? If the fans are not working on the mother
> board or the main power supply fans is not working correctly and the
> heat sensor is set in your bios; that can cause you system to stop.
>
> But the most likely cause are Resisters... this happens all the time.
> To check is the resisters on the mother board. You usually have about a
dozen.
> If you see ones with a bulge on the top or side you know you have a bad
one.
> Replacing them is about $1.50 each and if you are good with a
> soldering gun you can replace then. Otherwise it will cost you about
> $50.00 to $100.00 to do the set.
>
> HTH
> Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jon Tydda
> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 6:31 AM
> To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
> Subject: [dba-Tech] Computer issues...
>
> Morning all, I'm having "issues" with my computer and wondered if
> anyone could come up with some ideas that I haven't thought of...
>
> For the last couple of days, my pc has been randomly restarting
> itself while I've been using it, which is kind of annoying. Once when
> it restarted it showed me the "Windows has recovered from a serious
> error" message, so I clicked on the box and it told me that I had an
> issue with a driver. Now the only thing I've been using recently that
> would need a driver that I've not used in a while is my webcam, so I
> went to the creative website, and updated the driver (incidentally,
> they've got a great widget that searches your pc for hardware, and
> shows you the relevant drivers and utilities for it all, so that's my tip
of the day!).
>
> Downloaded and installed those, next day it was doing it again. I
> figured that the prolem might be with MSN Messenger, so I switched
> back to Trillian last night, and all was well. So I thought that
> seeing as how I have the day off today, I'd try and work out what the
> problem is with MSN. Except today, I turn the computer on, and I can't
get into anything other than safe mode.
> The welcome screen appears, I choose a username, it starts to log me
> in, shows my desktop, and then logs me out. Whichever account I use,
> I can't do anything. Ctrl-alt-del doesn't work fast enough to bring up a
process list.
>
> So I started in Safe Mode, ran Trojan Hunter, Counter Spy, Ad-Aware
> 2007, a full AVG Virus Scan, Spybot and a Panda ActiveScan. Trojan
> Hunter found something in my download folder, and removed it, all the
> others were clean apart from the occasional cookie, which I removed.
>
> Started again, still no luck. Back to safe mode, disk cleanup,
> CCleaner, Defrag. Nothing. Tried getting into Windows Update too, to
> see if there's anything that I'm missing, but it keeps coming up with
> errors. Belarc says I'm not missing anything anyway...
>
> So I'm stuck in safe mode - with no firewall, anti-virus or resident
> anti-spyware... Any ideas? :-)
>
> I'm running XP Pro SP2, nothing special...
>
>
> Jon
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