Periodic Rebootings...

[Fyron]

My computer seems to reboot itself without warning roughly every day and a half to 2 days... It has been doing this for about a week now. Spyware scans turn up negative. Virus scans, the same. I have run HijackThis, and have afixed the log of the scan to this post. Does anything in there look like some form of malware?

Hmm... there are 5 or 6 instances of Explorer.exe in there, even though I only have one copy running... I have an alternate shell running, so there is no reason for more than a single instance of Explorer.exe...

[Captain Kwok]

Does Win-dohs generate an error report for you?

[Fyron]

There is some sort of minidump that has been generated, but it is all gibberish... not a log at all. :-\

Hmm... this was in the System Logs of the Event Viewer, from 10/20...


Event Type: Error
Event Source: MRxSmb
Event Category: None
Event ID: 8003
Date: 10/20/2004
Time: 12:23:54 AM
User: N/A
Computer: DRAGON
Description:
The master browser has received a server announcement from the computer TRIPLEJLY that believes that it is the master browser for the domain on transport NetBT_Tcpip_{5008C108-EA86-400A. The master browser is stopping or an election is being forced.
Data:
0000: 00 00 00 00 03 00 4e 00 ......N.
0008: 00 00 00 00 43 1f 00 c0 ....C..À
0010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0018: 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........


What the hell does that mean???

[Captain Kwok]

Do you have the chance to send an error report - do that if you haven't - and that will sometimes offer more of an explanation for your error than the dump file.

BTW, you call your computer "Dragon"? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

My computer is Boxby!

[Fyron]

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7000
Date: 10/21/2004
Time: 5:58:26 PM
User: N/A
Computer: DRAGON
Description:
The aslm75 service failed to start due to the following error:
The system cannot find the file specified.


What is aslm75 service? Google seems to say that it is some driver file for ASUS. I have an ASUS motherboard.

Also, I get some promptings by Spybot Tea Timer at every start of Windows about the following registry changes:

Process:
rundll32.exe streamci,StreamingDevicSetup

Values to be deleted related to that process:
MSPCLOCK
MSPQM
MSKSSRV
MPEO
STREAMIPO
SLIPO
CCDECODEO
NABTSFECO
WSTCODECO

Process:
c:\Winnt\system32\dxdllreg.exe

Values to be deleted related to that process:
DXDIIRegExe

[Fyron]

Captain Kwok said:
Do you have the chance to send an error report - do that if you haven't - and that will sometimes offer more of an explanation for your error than the dump file.

Send an error report where? I am running Windows 2000...


BTW, you call your computer "Dragon"? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

My computer is Boxby!

Yes. My secondary, old PC is "Drake." http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[Captain Kwok]

If you're using Windohs XP or maybe 2000 then by default when your computer resets and re-boots a message comes up offering to send an error report. Check your start up and recovery tab in the advanced tab of system properties - see what options you have selected.

[Fyron]

I believe that is a feature solely of XP...

[Captain Kwok]

Imperator Fyron said:
I believe that is a feature solely of XP...



Really? I thought it was something that started in ME? Isn't 2000 after that or am I just mistaken?

BTW, my other computer names are "Kwok" (laptop) and "Pookie" for my wife's laptop.

[Fyron]

Captain Kwok said:
Really? I thought it was something that started in ME? Isn't 2000 after that or am I just mistaken?

BTW, my other computer names are "Kwok" (laptop) and "Pookie" for my wife's laptop.

I dunno... I have never seen it in 2000, and I have never used ME.

[Fyron]

This thing appears quite frequently in the Event Viewer...

Event Type: Error
Event Source: MRxSmb
Event Category: None
Event ID: 8003
Date: 10/20/2004
Time: 12:23:54 AM
User: N/A
Computer: DRAGON
Description:
The master browser has received a server announcement from the computer TRIPLEJLY that believes that it is the master browser for the domain on transport NetBT_Tcpip_{5008C108-EA86-400A. The master browser is stopping or an election is being forced.
Data:
0000: 00 00 00 00 03 00 4e 00 ......N.
0008: 00 00 00 00 43 1f 00 c0 ....C..À
0010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0018: 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

[Captain Kwok]

It looks like you might have some sort of periodic driver conflict from your Mobo. It wouldn't be the first time that has happened with an Asus board. /threads/images/Graemlins/Cold.gif

I've been living with it for far too long myself!

Hmm. The more I look at the text you posted - what is this computer TRIPLEJLY?

[Fyron]

Upon further investigation, TripleJLy is the name of my flatmate's computer.

[Captain Kwok]

Imperator Fyron said:
Upon further investigation, TripleJLy is the name of my flatmate's computer.


Does your computer on a wireless network? Perhaps he's trying to borrow your internet connection without your knowledge?

"Flatmate" - you live in England now? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif

[Fyron]

Well he is not a roommate in that we do not share a room... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

The router is a wired router. No wireless involved.

[Colonel]

This used to happen to me so I stopped running the explorer.exe and now I just run everything threw the ctrl alt delete menu thingy with all other tasks ended.

[Atrocities]

Fyron, your MB my be going bad. ASUS has sold a lot, and I do mean a lot, of bad Boards in the Last three years. The chances are pretty good that yours if failing.

The same thing happened to me when my ASUS board failed in 2000. The computer would just reboot. I then went to an MSI mother board and well, we know how that turned out.

Check to see if there is any info about ASUS MB failures that mirror your problem. I am pretty sure it is the MB that is causing the issue.

[Fyron]

If the motherboard was going bad, it would seem to reason that random hardware failures would occur, not just reboots at 2 day intervals...

[Spoo]

Maybe there's something wrong with your flatmates computer that is messing up your local network, causing windows to crash.

Also, have you checked for bad RAM?

[Raging Deadstar]

Captain Kwok said:
"Flatmate" - you live in England now? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif



There goes the neighbourhood.... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[Gandalph]

Imperator Fyron said:
This thing appears quite frequently in the Event Viewer...

Event Type: Error
Event Source: MRxSmb
Event Category: None
Event ID: 8003
Date: 10/20/2004
Time: 12:23:54 AM
User: N/A
Computer: DRAGON
Description:
The master browser has received a server announcement from the computer TRIPLEJLY that believes that it is the master browser for the domain on transport NetBT_Tcpip_{5008C108-EA86-400A. The master browser is stopping or an election is being forced.
Data:
0000: 00 00 00 00 03 00 4e 00 ......N.
0008: 00 00 00 00 43 1f 00 c0 ....C..À
0010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0018: 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........





This is nothing to worry about. It just means that you are on the same network without a server, so an election is held everytime 1 PC is turned on when the other is already on. If you look at his events, you will see this same message.

Edit; I would advise going to the ASUS site and getting the latest drivers for your Mobo. It is quite possible that a current driver has become corrupted. By reinstalling and/or upgrading your drivers you will solve a corrupted driver problem. If the problem persists, it may be an indication of imminent hardware failure.

[Fyron]

Imperator Fyron said:
Also, I get some promptings by Spybot Tea Timer at every start of Windows about the following registry changes:

Process:
rundll32.exe streamci,StreamingDevicSetup

Values to be deleted related to that process:
MSPCLOCK
MSPQM
MSKSSRV
MPEO
STREAMIPO
SLIPO
CCDECODEO
NABTSFECO
WSTCODECO

Process:
c:\Winnt\system32\dxdllreg.exe

Values to be deleted related to that process:
DXDIIRegExe

Does noone have any ideas about these??

[Gandalph]

dxdllreg - dxdllreg.exe - Process Information
Process File: dxdllreg or dxdllreg.exe
Process Name: Microsoft DXDllRegExe

Description:
dxdllreg.exe is an application which is supposed to request you register your Version of DirectX, however sometimes it stays resident. Should be removed from the startup.

[Aiken]

Ideas (http://www.2-spyware.com/file-dxdllreg-exe.html)
another idea (http://www.windowsstartup.com/wso/detail.php?id=411)

[Fyron]

Is there some program I can run to test my hardware? Randomly replacing parts to see what causes the rebootings isn't really feasible...