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"?

My computer is Boxby!

[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"?

My computer is Boxby!

Yes. My secondary, old PC is "Drake."

[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]

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]

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]

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