If "that App" is the cause(20 people with the same problem) have you
contacted the Vendor?

Attila Feher wrote:

Bob I wrote:

Nope. It is not. But even if I turn that off, what will it help in finding
what crashes? Will the printout change?

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Hopefully, you will get the error handler to give something other than
zeros.

Attila Feher wrote:

Bob I wrote:
OK. I will try that.

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Bob I wrote:
I have tested it, I get the same blue-screen, all zeros, no mention of any
executable name or anything like that. Just a line of zeros and some blabla
about contacting the helpdesk (or something like that).

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Attila aka WW

Maybe giving us the "whole" error message. Something strange about this
whole error business on your PC.

Attila Feher wrote:

Bob I wrote:
Well, it is displayed for 2 seconds or so. But what it is is something
like:

STOP: 0x00000000 (0x00000000, 0x00000000 and so on)

The some blabla, but that is some general thing like: wait for reboot and
contact your IT or something like that.

Nothing more about the error only those zeros. :-(

What I have seen is that starting up in safe mode with networking(?) I get
similar "all zeros" but as an application error from svchost.exe. (I have
no viruses, at least according to Symantec Antivirus Corporately Slow
Edition ;-) ).

I would at least need a way to get the name of that ugly b*****d
process/driver/whatever which makes it crash. But I have absolutely no idea
how to do that. Last time I have debugged kernel related (well, driver
related) stuff on Win2K it was a brand new release. :-(

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Attila aka WW

Hm, hope you did some backups - maybe it's just that time of the month for
windows : format c: ?
Smashing the keyboard against the case also seems to help, judging from
multiple amusing clips on the internet.

Sorry, don't really have an answer to your prob, sounds frustrating just
hearing about it. I'd say, shut down some startup processes in msconfig, and
try to determine what application causes it... Or, do a system restore...

I advice anyone with critical data on a harddisk to take a ghost-copy of the
entire disk, begone long-spanning problems and say hi to effective problem
search & destroy.


Z for Zoltan. Me = loco.

How about the BLASTER worm and its varients?

Attila Feher wrote:

Glenn - Audio&Media Europe nv wrote:
I cannot do that. Corporate laptop. If I have to reinstall it will
literally take me out of work for 3 weeks minimum.

Pretty hard to do with a laptop.

It does, doesn't it!

You must be mixing OSes I am afraid. Or this msconfig is not installed
here... I do not have one.

Yep. I think I could get a copy of Ghost with no more than 1 months daily
trouble. :-) Seriously: it is a corporate laptop. I am not allowed to make
copies of its harddisk.

Anyways the issue is simple. I need to do something to figure out what
crashes. Then either remove it or replace it with a non-corrupted one.

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Attila aka WW

Bob I wrote:
They are fine, thanx. :-) The serious part: this is a corporate laptop. It
has SAV runing, and in addition to that I have personal firewall and run
some testers online (or downloaded) time to time. So if it is a virus, it
is not the blaster (or a variant). That was the first thing I have found
about svchost crashes as well... but this is not my case. :-(

Attila