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Morning all, I recently developed an irritating problem pertaining to my computer rebooting essentially at random and after each reboot I get the error message and these two files are the ones accused of causing the problem

C:\DOCUME~1\DICKJU~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER10ea.dir00\Mini012607-01.dmp

C:\DOCUME~1\DICKJU~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER10ea.dir00\sysdata.xml

I'm not sure what these files are related to, and any attempt at using a system restore to a time when this wasn't happening has failed consistently. I'm not sure if this is a hardware or software problem. I've seen the second file (sysdat) involved with many issues with hardware so I'm going out on a limb.

It's worth noting that I recently removed a rather pesky virus from my computer that afflicted it for a few weeks. It affected my keyboard and mouse by making them act weird (single-click would highlight all the icons on the desktop, capslock needed to be on to type lowercase, etc). I can't remember the name, but it took Nod32 a few hours to find it on it's most intensive scan in safe mode, and I believe it said it was a variant of the Win32 exploit trojan.

Thank you for your help, please feel free to ask any questions you feel as relevant, and I hope to resolve this soon.

Windows XP Pro

Sapphire Radeon X1900XT 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Crossfire support

ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe Socket 939 ATI CrossFire Radeon Xpress 3200

ENERMAX Liberty 500W PSU

G.SKILL Value 2x1GB DDR400

Seagate Barracuda(Perpendicular) 320GB 7200RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Manchester 2.2GHz socket 939

Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Professional Series 7.1 Channels

LG Combo Black DVD/CD Drive


Posted

The easiest and least time-consuming process would simply be to reformat your system. Backup your drivers and any personal documents to flash drive, CD, DVD, external HDD, whatever.

Any ideas on how you managed to become infected in the first place?

Posted

not a clue, it just started a few weeks back. I finally got rid of it about a week and a half ago. And in response to your solution, I would much rather find an alternate solution. Reformatting solves many problems, but it won't help me specify what's wrong with my system if this happens in the future.

Posted

not a clue, it just started a few weeks back. I finally got rid of it about a week and a half ago. And in response to your solution, I would much rather find an alternate solution. Reformatting solves many problems, but it won't help me specify what's wrong with my system if this happens in the future.

Posted

do you know when the last time you set a restore point was? i think windows automatically sets one when the installation is done, but thats probably way too early...your best bet would just be having a scan schedule for your anti-virus so that you get rid of it as early as possible...like once a week, and then once every two weeks for spyware/adware...yea it takes a while sometimes, but a 3 hours scan is never even half as bad as a 3 hours fix..

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System restore isn't an issue anymore, It seems I needed to go back to on of the points I created on the 17th. I went back and things seem to be working properly. I THINK it had to do with a fautly video driver installation. But I'm still not entirely confident that's the case.

Posted

hmm faulty video cards...if its a forceware driver, i've read around that it could be caused by windows loosing contact with the driver, then reverting back to a windows driver...in the process, if that fails, then the computer would crash, your moniter would then say "VGA Mode Not Support" it'll happen to me on occaision...although i don't understand why...with the graphics card and mobo being close in age...but the graphics card came in a P4 system [old P4 socket 423] and its in a PII...oh well.

usually windows will revert from a standard driver, although its uncommon for it to happen with forceware drivers to my knowledge.

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i've read around that it could be caused by windows loosing contact with the driver, then reverting back to a windows driver

What do you mean by "loosing contact"?

Posted
by loosing contact i mean that windows fails to recognize the driver after so long

Nothing a quick reinstall won't fix.

Posted

Well I uninstalled and reinstalled my video card drivers, and nothing bad has happened YET, but I'm still not sure it's fixed. I'm hoping I'm just being paranoid.

On a related note. here is the error I get in the event viewer

Error code 000000c2, parameter1 00000007, parameter2 00000cd4, parameter3 02060001, parameter4 86d4e868.

maybe someone will recognize it.

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