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| Thread ID: 69466 | 2006-06-02 09:25:00 | Dr Watson Postmortem debugger? | bigmit37 (7537) | Press F1 |
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| 460032 | 2006-06-02 09:25:00 | Ok my computer has been acting really funny. Most of the time when I open a folder, I guess the "Windows has encountered a problem message" .....but sometimes I get this message instead, "Dr.Watson Postmortem dugger" (Something along the lines of that)... Is this a virus, I ran AVG and found nothing....I am not connected to the internet at the moment, and haven't been for the past few weeks, with that computer. What exactly is going on? Thanks. |
bigmit37 (7537) | ||
| 460033 | 2006-06-02 10:21:00 | Not a virus, sometimes I got that too after restarting the PC it is fine for me. Sometimes I get it from the internet explorer. | MTLance (6768) | ||
| 460034 | 2006-06-02 10:27:00 | I thought that dr. watson was buried many generations ago? | Greven (91) | ||
| 460035 | 2006-06-02 10:37:00 | No, my dear Holmes, Dr. Watson is alive and well in XP. Go to Start-All Programs-Accessories-System Tools-System Information, and type Watson in the search box. This will give help info like like this: "Using Dr. Watson. Dr. Watson detects information about system and program failures and records the information in a log file. In the event of a program error, Dr. Watson starts automatically. Open Dr. Watson. Notes To open Dr. Watson, click Start, and then click Run. In the Open box, type drwtsn32. Dr. Watson cannot prevent errors from occurring, but the information recorded in the log file can be used by technical support personnel to diagnose the problem. For information about using Dr. Watson, click Help in Dr. Watson. For more information, click Related Topics. Related Topics" |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 460036 | 2006-06-02 18:28:00 | No, my dear Holmes, Dr. Watson is alive and well in XP. Go to Start-All Programs-Accessories-System Tools-System Information, and type Watson in the search box. This will give help info like like this: "Using Dr. Watson. Dr. Watson detects information about system and program failures and records the information in a log file. In the event of a program error, Dr. Watson starts automatically. Open Dr. Watson. Notes To open Dr. Watson, click Start, and then click Run. In the Open box, type drwtsn32. Dr. Watson cannot prevent errors from occurring, but the information recorded in the log file can be used by technical support personnel to diagnose the problem. For information about using Dr. Watson, click Help in Dr. Watson. For more information, click Related Topics. Related Topics" Thanks will look into it. It's been happening extremely often. Everytime I open a folder, program anything, if I do it too quickly, I get the Windows or Dr Watson program? Do you think its one of my parts? I was thinking about my CPU and wondering if I am supposed to get some thermal paste for it. I haven't overclocked my computer, but just wondering if the initial paste/adhesive surface that it came with wore out. |
bigmit37 (7537) | ||
| 460037 | 2006-06-02 20:53:00 | Have a look at what the Help and asupport section says about using the drr. watson log file. Have a look in drwtsn32.log. There will be heaps of gobbledy-gook, but each error section is headed with the application and date as to when the problem occured, like this one from mine: "Application exception occurred: App: G:\Real\Encoder\rvencode.exe (pid=4012) When: 10/10/2003 @ 11:25:35.427 Exception number: c0000005 (access violation)" It will tell you which programs are causing the problems. They could be hardware caused though, like faulty ram or something, but first of all I'd be inclined to run system file checker to test for any corrupted system files. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 460038 | 2006-06-02 21:17:00 | Dr. Watson is alive and well in XP.Has he got XP? I used to get semi-frequent strange Dr Watson errors in 98. | Greg (193) | ||
| 460039 | 2006-06-02 22:44:00 | Has he got XP? I used to get semi-frequent strange Dr Watson errors in 98. Right, I assumed XP. In win98, start Dr Watson from system tools-system information, and an icon appears in the system tray. Right click on the icon and select open log file. It is a file named something like watson00.wlg, located in c:\windows\drwatson. It can't be read with a text editor. A window opens with a "diagnosis" of the problem. It says restart the program, if the problem persists you may need to reinstall it. Edit: I'm sure in win98 you have to manually run Dr. Watson first to generate a log file, in XP it is automatic, I think. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
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