Hardware Related - System Hanging
Jan 7, 2008
I had this posted in a previous thread about my RAM problems (which I fixed by getting better quality RAM ), but very frequently my system will hang for about 2 seconds. This all occurred after my laptop slid off my bed and dropped about 2 feet onto it's back-bone. I am still able to move the mouse while the system hangs. Now, I know this is not a memory related problem as I just installed 2 GB of Crucial DDR2 PC-5300 RAM (which are AMAZING!). A lot of you will try to suggest a virus or spy-ware scan, but seeing as how it happened right after I dropped the damn thing, I don't think the problem is software related. I also know that it's hard to diagnose hardware problems over the internet, but can any of you give me some tips? I'm honestly thinking of just bringing the thing into BestBuy to get warranty service on it. Hopefully it's something too damaged for them to deem it worth it to fix and they will have to give me a new laptop.
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Apr 18, 2008
My pc won't boot windows. When I turn it on it gives the following message:"X300 SE 128MB BIOS P/N 113-A33406-100"Not exactly sure what is going on. I think it is either memory related or bios related, but I could be wrong.
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Dec 8, 2008
I have XP home 32bit and Linux on an 8 gb memory PC. Linux system will be removed as it was a business related setup and I'm no longer going to use. How might I upgrade so I can use all 8 gb with the windows environment? What is upgrade path to XP or Vista 64 without reinstalling? ANyway to use the 4 gb as ramdisk?
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Jul 13, 2005
When I switch on my laptop I get a black screen with white type telling me that the file above is missing and advising me to insert recovery disk and go to repair screen - happens every time. What should I do?
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Jun 10, 2009
I undo one Program from start up and after that a pop up message appears as follows : " You have used the System Configuration Utility to make changes to the Windows.The System Configuration Utility is currently running in Diagnostic or Selective Start Up Mode causing this message to be displayed and the utility to run every time Windows starts. Choose the Normal Start up mode in the General Tab to start Windows normally and undo the changes you made using the System Configuration Utility."
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Apr 17, 2009
I was on my computer today, programs started freezing up, eventually windows crashed. When rebooting I got the message I put in the subject title line "windows could not start because the following file windowssystem32configsystem is missing or corrupt".
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Jul 28, 2009
Windows crashed on my PC, on reboot I get an error message,"WindowsSystem32ConfigSystem corrupt or missing"So I search around on my laptop and find handy registry repair walkthrough on the windows site. I pop in my windows xp cd and enter the repair console.Now, the instructions say I should be prompted to enter an admin password, but I am not promted, instead I just get to the command prompt."C:>"So I type in the first command on the list "md tmp" to make a temp file for the repair and then..."Access is Denied"
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Aug 8, 2009
My system have a good configuration that AMD Athloan 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+, 3.01 GHz, 2GB RAM (DDR II ), 640 GB SATA HDD. I am using Windows XP Service Pack 2. My softwares are common and simple like Adobe Photoshop, Abbey Fine Reader, MS office etc. But still my system hangs with regular intervals and maximum slow. I can't play even a simple game, can't see a film or even I can't browse the internet smoothly. Often I am getting error messages like explorer not responding. I have formatted my system many times. But still the problem persists. How can I resolve this problem?
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Sep 8, 2007
I have read through the forums and didnt find anything related to my problem, i have bought a new PC and used my old harddisk with the same operating system, luckly i was able to access the harddisk and everything was working fine, i prefered to format and install a fresh XP, after installing all the drivers, everything was working fine, however sometimes the PC hangs and you can not click or move the nouse or do anything, no error message is poping and i have to restart the PC manually.
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Feb 1, 2005
I am currently running XP on my system. About three days ago, my system suddenly started taking longer to boot. The extra boot time comes in the form of a black screen with a flashing cursor in the top left, where my system does not appear to be doing anything. This screen appears immediately before the Windows XP loading screen. I have tried Tweak XP utilities to try and speed up my startup. Failing that, I tried a system restore to a few days prior to this strange occurrance. Every time I try to run system restore, however, I am confronted with an error upon startup that tells me that system restore was unsuccessful. I have tried a variety of system restore dates, and all have been unsuccessful. I have tried sweeps with Spysweeper and Norton, and neither have brought any more insight into this problem.
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Mar 20, 2008
I have an xp installation that is starting to hang either soon after the welcome screen or else when i start using the pc such as internet explorer, messenger or some other application. The pc stops completely and i cannot access task manager or anything else, just have to switch off from the switch. I ran a checkdisk on the hard drive but that found no problems.
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Sep 25, 2005
My housemate had a terminal case of unprotected windows, i sorted his machine out (spybot, adaware, regclean, avast!, zonealarm, mst defrag, mbm5 - as was overheating prevoiously - sorted now).Now the system sometimes hangs after zonealarm requests access for a MS process.I am also getting an error i don't understand, not sure if its anything to do with the first problem; The browser service has failed to retrieve the backup list too many times on transport DeviceNetBT_Tcpip_{B31AE179-7318-4162-86B6-D25BF39A9BD9}.
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Jan 21, 2006
I had to switch my pc off before shutting down properly earlier today. Each time I attempt to boot, I get the message windows did not start properly etc. and I am given a choice of whether to start in safe mode, last known setting that worked, or normally, etc. When attempting to start normally, I get the windows xp splash screen whith the progress bar for a few seconds, then at the point it would normally switch to the blue password prompt, the screen goes black. No error message, no cursor, no nothing. The system just hangs. It does exactly the same when I try 'last known settings that worked'. On trying in safe mode, the list of drivers it is attempting to load comes up, fills the screen, and then just stays like that.
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Nov 5, 2006
PC has recently started hanging in a particularly strange way. Most commonly, the screen blinks to black, then comes back, and the PC is frozen not even Num Lock will turn off. Sometimes however, it doesn't do the blink and just stops. This seems completely random, and isn't to do with any particular software that's running at the time. The only evidence is this entry in the Event Viewer - System Log: The browser service has failed to retrieve the backup list too many times on transport DeviceNetBT_Tcpip_{FF038570-7316-4F6A-8817-2B5B9C597E73}. The backup browser is stopping. And The browser was unable to retrieve a list of servers from the browser master \H_LPTP1 on the network DeviceNetBT_Tcpip_{FF038570-7316-4F6A-8817-2B5B9C597E73}. The data is the error code. H_LPTP1 is my laptop, usually on the network, but it isn't even switched on.
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May 27, 2005
Following removal of a few trojans worm and a viruses. My system is now clean and I have MS anti spy, spyware blast spybot and Norton Anti Virus. This lady has learned the lesson. However all is not well with my dell laptop. I connect to the internet but when online the following happens: System hangs can't get the mouse to close a window, save as in a document or change a web page. In fact the cursor is stuck on the hour glass. The only way out is to turn off the power and restart. Dont seem to have any problems off line.
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Jul 22, 2005
I have a Win2000 network and now have around 20 new XP Pro machines on it.Every user has at least one drive mapped to one of our servers to store files Every so often, for no reason that I have figured out, when trying to access a mapped drive it hangs up and you are asked for a username and password.This happens to me with my perminatly mapped drives and new ones I make on the fly. No username or password seems to work, and the easiest way to get it to work correctly is to reboot. This only happens with the XP machines.
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May 15, 2006
Having problems at the moment. Thought I had got rid of my virus problem related to a file in the system32 folder called win16.exe, which was related to Downloader.Tibs. But then keep getting this crash dialogue box related to service.exe. Have followed some threads but a little confused.
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Aug 4, 2006
I have a Dell 8200 desktop running XP service Pack 2. The problem I have is right clicking anything that is related to explorer.exe. I can right click icons on my desk top that are webpages, but not links to files on my computer. If I open a window, I cannot right click. I highlight an item and the busy hourglass spins around, then the window disappears. Can not delete items with out doing some work arounds. To delete, move or copy a file, I have to go into any program and say open file, then I can do what ever I want with it.
I have defragged, scanned for virus as well as adware and I am clean. Have even replaced the explorer.exe file. Had another tech try his darndest as well as other on-line Tech's. I have run a program called ShellExView and it comes up with an error in the following Extension Names. Channel, Channel Menu Handler Object, and Channel Shortcut. All are Channel Definition Viewer files.( cdfview.dll) All appear to be system types. Other Channel Definition Viewer fields seem to work just fine. (they include things such as icon handler, thumbnail, info tip handler etc. Not sure what to do with the information. I plan on getting a new computer soon, so do not want to have to reinstall Windows XP before then.
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Jan 12, 2007
Having a issue on a computer and i think its virus related but haven't found any info on it. when I go to printers you know usually you have the windows imaging printer but all I have is add printer. If I try to add printer it doesn't do anything
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Jul 31, 2008
I had some viruses and in my process of cleaning, I believe the auto dowload feature kicked in for Windows service pack 3. Once it loaded, I ran RegiCure and a host of other virus or regi conflict software. The following message appears when I try to boot Excel or Word. "The application or DLL C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOfficeMSO9.DLL is not a valid Windows Image.Please check this against your installation diskette."So at the moment, I can't boot Excel and Word. IS there a known Excel & Word conflict with service pack "3"?
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Mar 7, 2006
I've been having probems with my sound recently. I think that the problems are driver related, but Ive tried reinstalling them, and getting new ones (the new ones had major problems). Its SoundMAX digital audio
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Feb 1, 2005
I thought it was this new game i installed, it would lag about every minute and a half, for about 10 seconds at a time. So i uninstalled the game. The only problem is now the computer seems to get bogged down much easier (running AIM and windows media player at the same time makes WMP songs slow), and enters 10 second "slow periods". This never used to happen.
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Dec 25, 2007
I recently just turned on my pc to have it error during boot up.Before this I have never had a problem with this pc. I built it in june 2006 and has run perfefct until now.I have an ASUS A8N-SLI premium mobo and a Saitek Eclipse Keyboard
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Mar 12, 2009
I cannot open folders on my computer. I can only Explore them. If I try to open them, I get an "Access is denied" alert. However, if I right-click and select Explore, all is good. I then usually drill down to get to the folder I want. But again, I cannot double-click on a folder that appears on the right pane in Explorer.
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Nov 14, 2006
I was trying to copy the hive files from a restore point when the computer suddenly crashed with a BSOD (Stop x0D1 DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL). I was simply typing at the prompt when it occurred. Memtest found no problems. Any idea why this happened? (This is a fancy notebook that "suddenly stopped working yesterday" according to the owner. He tried an OS repair with his original XP Home CD but the computer kept crashing part way through.
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Mar 10, 2010
I can't remove software from my computer relating to my printer "epson"!
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Nov 4, 2008
The HID Input Service service terminated with the following error: The system cannot find the file specified. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. Also I have checked in the System32, I have hidserv.dll is in there, but mouhid.sys and mouclass.sys are not.
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Oct 3, 2005
My PC has started running really slow. I know this could be virus or spy ware related but I have Norton and have never had problems before. Just before it started I changed the desktop appearence on my display settings. It started running slow from this point.I then tried to start i-tunes and it crashed.The ususal whirring noise (hard disk?) now sounds like a ticking. Every so often it jumps into life and runs a t normal speed.My operating system is XP. 250GB HDD. Intel pentium four processor 540 (3.2ghz)
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Oct 15, 2006
AFter duking with sysdata.xml BSOD for almost 2 months now with no success, i regretfully state that i have given up this fight. Tommorow or nex week, i will be dropping off my CPU to some computer technician who will charge me $65+ an hr, to hopefully fix my problem. But before i do so i would like to try one last time Problem: sysdata.xml & minidump crashes and restarts. Just restarting anytime i perform some action with the computer. More so playing games like WC3 tft and CS: S. Internet connection just disconnects randomly.
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Feb 23, 2005
When my computer is checking the drives after i restart my comouter by hitting the "reset" button on the CPU, it runs halfway and gives some errors. But the scanning does not complete.
The last line in the display says :
documents and settingsxxxMy Documentsxxx=; is cross linked on allocation unit 917504
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Jun 1, 2009
I'm having a somewhat-recurring issue wherein I'll play a PopCap or SOE Game and be interrupted by the dreaded BSOD. When I go into my event viewer and look at the only red-exclamation-point item I can, I see the following (two items, both appear in the log at exactly the same time. In this case, the game was Free Realms. As you'll note from the error, it appears to be related to the Windows Search Service. I've attached the minidump to this link, for those of you uber-XP-experts that can understand it. Also, I keep this PC maintained pretty well. I run anti-malware software on a regular basis, use ClamWin for my antivirus, and avoid iffy-websites.
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