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| Thread ID: 33619 | 2003-05-21 03:21:00 | Constant freezeups - never used to happen before! - Help! | PoWa (203) | Press F1 |
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| 146126 | 2003-05-21 03:21:00 | Alright its been happening over the last few days now, and I think its time to call for help. I just go about using my computer as normal, then bamm everything freezes and I have to hard boot the stupid machine. Its happening about once every hour and before a week ago I never got freezeups at all. What is going on here? Post every possible idea you can think of please :) I'm running XP Pro, 1.1Athlon, 384ram, GF4 mx440. Thanks! |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 146127 | 2003-05-21 03:27:00 | I'm not sure if it's the same kind of problem I encountered recently but what fixed my computer was downloading all the updates for Windows XP (I'd sort of forgotten to do that for a while...!). Since then it has been running perfectly (fingers crossed), even better than before it started freezing. Worth a try! | write-click (2248) | ||
| 146128 | 2003-05-21 03:39:00 | > Alright its been happening over the last few days > now, and I think its time to call for help. > > I just go about using my computer as normal, then > bamm everything freezes and I have to hard boot the > stupid machine. Its happening about once every hour > and before a week ago I never got freezeups at all. That all most sounds like my problem I am having: :) pressf1.pcworld.co.nz But with Win ME PC & GeForce4 440 |
stu140103 (137) | ||
| 146129 | 2003-05-21 07:53:00 | Hi Powa Have you had a look under Control Panel > Admininstrative Tools > Event Viewer? Check the logs for any errors noted around the freeze - it may shed more light on it. If no software errors are found - start thinking hardware problems. Jen |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 146130 | 2003-05-21 08:03:00 | The most common being memory sticks and power supplies. | Pheonix (280) | ||
| 146131 | 2003-05-21 09:29:00 | There were like 50errors around the time it happened. Next time it happens, I'll record the time and then see what is happening. |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 146132 | 2003-05-21 09:58:00 | > There were like 50errors around the time it > happened. 50 errors is a bit excessive! Clicking on the error will give you further details - is there a recurring theme with them? |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 146133 | 2003-05-21 14:50:00 | I just had 3 siezes in like 5mins :\ Argh! Anyway, I'm only getting like 3 errors, and they keep re-occurring. Here are the messages in the event viewer - system. Message 1 The Control Protocol EAP in the Point to Point Protocol module C:\WINDOWS\System32\rasppp.dll returned an error while initializing. The request is not supported. Message 2 Remote Access Connection Manager failed to start because the Point to Point Protocol failed to initialize. The request is not supported. Message 3 DCOM got error "The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it. " attempting to start the service MDM with arguments "" in order to run the server: {0C0A3666-30C9-11D0-8F20-00805F2CD064} I think I fixed message 3, because it was referring to the Machine Debug Manager, which service I had disabled about a week ago cos I thought it was some virus. So I've started it up again ;) Anyway who is runing XP here? Ctrl alt del, and have a look to see if there is a process running called "mdm.exe" or "mdc.exe". If you have them I guess they can't be viruses...?? What do the other error messages mean??? |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 146134 | 2003-05-21 18:31:00 | Running XP Home Edition......no mdm.exe, nor mdc.exe here brig |
brig (1359) | ||
| 146135 | 2003-05-21 22:07:00 | Not on my XP pro either. But doing a google search, found that mdm.exe is Microsoft Machine debug Manager, and mdc.exe is a Mcdonnel-Douglas screensaver. Ring any bells? | Pheonix (280) | ||
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