Suspicious crashes
Monday, August 14th, 2006 05:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tamaranthThe PC keeps encountering a problem with "Generic Host Process for Win32 Services". It's happened four times in the last three hours and every time I've had to restart to get my broadband connection back.
The message comes up after about 10 mins logged on (I just sat on the other side of the room and watched it happen without my having touched the keyboard for 5 mins).
I'm only running Firefox and Notetab (under, I'mverysorry, Windows XP). I checked the Micros*ft site re this problem, and there's a patch, but it's not at all recent -- so what I'm suspicious about is the way it's suddenly started happening. Can't think of how it could be caused by having unplugged and moved the PC, then moved it back, and that's all that's changed since Before Problem.
Any ideas? Virus? Physical damage? Weird hardware thing? Mercury in retrograde? Absence of cat urine in carpet?
The message comes up after about 10 mins logged on (I just sat on the other side of the room and watched it happen without my having touched the keyboard for 5 mins).
I'm only running Firefox and Notetab (under, I'mverysorry, Windows XP). I checked the Micros*ft site re this problem, and there's a patch, but it's not at all recent -- so what I'm suspicious about is the way it's suddenly started happening. Can't think of how it could be caused by having unplugged and moved the PC, then moved it back, and that's all that's changed since Before Problem.
Any ideas? Virus? Physical damage? Weird hardware thing? Mercury in retrograde? Absence of cat urine in carpet?
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Date: Wednesday, August 16th, 2006 11:55 am (UTC)Did take a lot longer. But still.
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Date: Wednesday, August 16th, 2006 12:08 pm (UTC)ok, i'd try this next - http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm has the full details; we're installing Windows over itself to replace the Windows files without affecting files or applications.
Boot the computer using the XP CD. usually that's just put in the CD, shut down, turn the power on.
When you see the "Welcome To Setup" screen, you will see the options below
This portion of the Setup program prepares Microsoft
Windows XP to run on your computer:
To setup Windows XP now, press ENTER.
To repair a Windows XP installation using Recovery Console, press R.
To quit Setup without installing Windows XP, press F3.
Press Enter to start the Windows Setup.
I know it says repair but DO NO choose "To repair a Windows XP installation using the Recovery Console, press R", (you Do Not want to load Recovery Console). I repeat, do not choose "To repair a Windows XP installation using the Recovery Console, press R". Press ENTER instead!
Accept the License Agreement and Windows will search for existing Windows installations.
Select the XP installation you want to repair from the list - it should be the only one - and press R to start the repair. If Repair is not one of the options, END setup. Don't go ahead - we need to try something different. Just turn the PC off, take the CD out and reboot as normal. Continuing would wipe your system.
Setup will copy the necessary files to the hard drive and reboot. Do not press any key to boot from CD when the message appears. Setup will continue as if it were doing a clean install, but your applications and settings will remain intact.