Today when I started the computer it would not boot up properly and I got the message that "Dr Watson postmortem debugger" encountered a problem and it needed to close. The computer never booted up properly and the desktop would constantly disappear. is this a virus? Also what is Dr Watson debugger,I never heard of it before. I am running my virus software to see if it is a virus.
View 12 RepliesI have Been getting errors and think that this may be a problem.(drwatson) I know what it is and what its for. I have done some research and attemted a few things before coming here.
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View 12 Replies View RelatedI try to open an email with my Earthlink Total Access and it won't open but just gives me the "Encountered a problem" message in regards to the Dr. Watson Debugger. It seems to only happen on forwarded messages, mostly from our church. This has just started happening in the last 2 weeks.I am running XP on an ACER laptop.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedAbout a week ago I got this message Dr.Watsons Post Mortem Debugger has encountered a problem and needs to close. I have win xp home add. Now when I try to open control panel my pc freezes up and I have to reboot. I also can't open win explorer. What is thing and how can I undo it. HELP PLEASE!!
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have been having a problem with my OS. I recently just reformatted my hard drive, because of the problem I am having, just to have it come back on me.The problem I am having is with my Windows Explorer and Dr Watson PostMortem Debugger. Every 20-30 minutes, I will get the messages (2 of them) for, "Windows Explorer has encountered an error and must close", and, "Dr Watson PostMortem Debugger has encountered an error and must close".Again, this is the reason I reformatted in the first place. I know it's not a virus doing this (At least, I hope it's not, as I just reformatted).
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View 12 Replies View RelatedDr Watson postmortem debugger error in SP2 when trying to access external usb2 drives? Specifically large video files. The drive freezes completely.I have two external drives on a hub, and have one on an alternate port. I've split them and tested separately, to no avail. Also tried uninstalling usb drivers, running norton/adaware/spybot because I read something about a virus. Never had a speed or freeze issue in SP1 running HUGE videos, or editing software from multiple disks.I only see a few suspects on hijackthis log (a second dr watson?), but don't know enough - and I'm curious whether SP2 might be the culprit.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have read everything I could find in this group on Dr watson, I still do not know WHAt he is and why he is there,,,,I was told he was spyware and should be deleted out of the pc. Did that, he came back! It says it is from Microsoft, can ANYONE tell the answeres to the what and why about this little dr man.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI had the following problem while logging on to my computer (Windows XP) this morning: While starting up I get an error message saying Windows Explorer must shut down (with the option of sending an error message to MS) even though WE was never open to begin with. When I try to open anything up, like IE or Word I get an error message from Dr Watson Postmortem Debugger saying something about it needing to close (can't remember exactly since I'm at work now). The computer then freezes up and I have to Ctrl-Alt-Delete out. I ran McAfee Virus Scan and it discovered I had a trojan (netpals). It was apparently cleaned but when I tried opening something up I got the same error messages.I cannot open any programs using my Start menu or clicking on the desktop icon.
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI am using windows XP Professional.After every few minutes there is an message that the Dr Watson Debugger... has stopped working and needs to close.Then Windows Explorer stops responding and everytime I have to restart the computer.If you have any information about this then please inform as i keep losing all the data each and everytime this happnes.Also I would like to mention here that previously I was using Vista and I'm very new to XP so don't have a lot of knowledge about it too.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI browsed through the posts of this forum and I hope you can help me to sort this issue out. I often experience dr Watson postmortem to cause my Windows Explorer to freeze. This is particularly true when I display a number of pictures in a folder directory as icons or when I open a divX file with Windows Media Player. Sometimes, even when I drag and drop a media file (the longer the file the higher the risk), I experience system freezes. The only way to recover that is by stopping the operation through the task manager.I understand that the problem is not with dr Watson per se: this is just the debugger, but I cannot sort the cause of the problem out.
View 14 Replies View RelatedWindows Explorer keeps crashing on me, so when I click on 'send error report' DR Watson Postmortem debugger comes on, but that locks up too. So, I end up having to end Dr Watson's task to unlock the programs and get everything done. Some days I never need to do it, but some days (like today), I've had to do this repeatedly, like, seven times within an eight hour period.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI do not know what's going on, in the middle of surfing tend to receive an error message:'DrWatson Postmortem Debugger has encountered a problem and needs to close.Please tell Microsoft about this problem' which prompts me to send error report.Sometimes I also receive internet explorer error report similar to the above.May I know what is wrong and how do I eliminate such errors from my computer?Please recommend a useful tool/program for curbing these problems.I am running on windows XP and internet explorer 5.
View 4 Replies View RelatedAs I was trying to remove something from my system, I got an error message referencing "Dr. Watson Postmortem debugger." I did a quick google, and it looks like this might be something that's malicious. I'm posting a HiJack This log below; BTW, I'm running Windows XP Media Center Rollback 2.
Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 7:31:35 PM, on 11/13/2006
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.5730.0011)
Running processes:
C:WINDOWSSystem32smss.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32winlogon.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32services.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32lsass.exe...............
Each time i go into a particular folder i get either the message, program can not respond or i get dr watson postmortem debugger.I would like to lnow why this it and how i can reslove it, if i go into one folder all other ones are ok.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am using a Dell Computer with windows xp. My problem is every time I click My Documents, My Pictures, or just about anything on the right side in the start nenu the message, "Dr. Watson Postmortem Debugger has a problem and needs to close." Send report, don't send. No matter what I hit the arrow&hour glass appears and the computer freezes up, and I have to use Task Manager to restart. I've tried System Restore, but it says It has no resore point, but the programs in start menu work in safe mode. Can anyone help me with Dr. Watson please?
View 18 Replies View RelatedMy son's computer is saying Dr Watson Postmorten Debugger encountered a problem and needs to close down. I press don't send and then nothing happens, I even switch it with my computer hook ups because I have internet and he does not and pressed send and nothing happens. I asked dell and they had me run a test and said it is not a hardware problem. Is there a way I can restart his computer and get it back to the way it was like when I bought it last Nov.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI cant open some of my desktop icons and I cant get into my computer and control panel by icon or start up button. Every time I try a message pops up that reads Data Execution Prevention. When I close the window it asks me either to send message or it reads Dr Watson Postmortern Debugger. Then it will either completly seize up or do a quick explorer reboot where all the icons and task bar will disapear and then reapear. I have searched for all pests, viruses, trojans, malware, viruses etc with, spybot, trend micro house call, ca e-trust antivirus, ad aware and it comes up clean.
View 1 Replies View RelatedAfter leaving my computer turned off for spring break, I returned to find a few things wrong with it. First, the little red alert from microsoft was in the corner saying that I had suspicious activity on my computer. Second, none of my folders will open. If I double-click a folder, the computer freezes for about 30 seconds, the desktop blinks, and I get the above error message, and I still can't open folders. I ran a virus scan and pulled up a good 7 infected files, but deleted them all and restarted...same problem. I also ran a spyware program and found the same spyware that I've had for a few months now, so I don't think that's the problem. I tried restarting in safe mode and folders open perfectly, with no problems.
View 1 Replies View RelatedRecently I have received a problem where I can't open a folder that has a gigabyte or more space used. I have several folders that contain a little less than a gb and they open and let me do what I want without any problems. When I open a folder with a gb or more it opens and lets me see the files and then I get a Windows Explorer popup saying that Windows Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to shut down, I clicked the error report and this is what it says: AppName: explorer.exe AppVer: 6.0.2900.2180 ModName: filesystemflags.dll
ModVer: 1.0.0.1 Offset: 00002ddd
And when I close the Windows popup I get a Dr. Watson Postmortem Debugger popup and I clicked the error report but it won't let me read the details, so I have to Ctl, Alt, Del to close the non-responsive program.I have scanned the computer for virses and spyware and came up negative on both of those, so I don't know what is wrong or what to do to fix this. I have previously had folders with several gb's used when I was storing video to transfer to dvd and I never had this problem.
I downloaded sp2, but now I have thie Dr Watson Posmortem debugger window that opens on restart and my whole system freezes---I can't even close the Dr Watson window. What is this and how do I get rid of it?My system was virus and spyware free.
View 4 Replies View RelatedMy problem is that when right click any file not folder just file my pc hangs and stop working and after sometime it give error "DrWatson Postmortem Debugger has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have been recently having problems with my computer, revolving around the above program. Whenever I click on control panel from Start it hangs around for about 30-60 secs before saying 'Dr Watson Postmortum Debugger has encountered a serious error and needs to close'. Afterwards, the whole computer is totally frozen, and I have to perform a force shutdown. I currently use a Windows Xp 512mb ram Pentium 4.
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhen the comp is first turned on, everything powers up as normal then it stops at the first boot screen prior to the memory test and powers off the monitor. The computer stays on but does nothing.
The system specs are as follows:
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1
Internet Explorer 6.0.2800.1106 (IE 6.0 SP1)
DirectX 4.09.00.0902 (DirectX 9.0b)
CPU Type AMD Athlon XP, 2000 MHz (15 x 133) 2400+
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-7VT600(-L)
Motherboard Chipset VIA VT8377 Apollo KT600
System Memory 512 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type Award Modular (07/03/03)
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X (64 MB)
Monitor Benq FP547 [15" LCD] (1336662)
The problem is intermittent and sometimes the computer will randomly shut down.
I initially thought this was video card problem so I have swapped out the video card for a known good one with no success.
Next thing I thought was overheating, I checked the system temps in the bios after a good boot and noticed the CPU temp was on 90 degrees Celsius, I thought this was extremely hot so I cleaned the heat sink and fan and the temp has dropped to the figures below:
Motherboard 38 �C (100 �F)
CPU 73 �C (163 �F)
Aux 45 �C (113 �F)
Seagate ST380011A 43 �C (109 �F)
The CPU temp still seems hot, however the system will run for days without a problem then out of the blue fail to start.
I then suspected a power supply problem and still suspect that this may be the culprit.
Once the computer has failed to boot, it will not boot fully again until the PSU power lead has been removed briefly.
If I unplug the power cable momentarily the system boots fine on the next boot, which seems to indicate something is being reset when the power is shut off totally.
Voltage Values:
350w PSU
CPU Core 1.68 V
+3.3 V 3.25 V
+5 V 4.73 V
+12 V 12.80 V
+5 V Standby 4.89 V
DIMM VTT 1.33 V
I have also run sea-tools which has detected errors on the hard drive, but I believe the problem is occurring before the system checks the hard drive.
I am receiving no bios beep error codes.
I am leaning toward PSU replacement,
when I use the web based reader,I cannot open the text box to post a new question,and yet I can open the text box to post an answer to a post. when i select new question my screen flashes and nothing happens.Running xp pro with sp2.
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