Mike
Sun Oct 19 17:58:28 CDT 2003
Ed,
This is rather outside the areas where I feel able to provide basic support.
Your problems might seem to relate to net access. Some of the long chains of
events you mention don't really help that much as often once the first problem
has manifested itself what follows is unpredictable especially so when the
system becomes unstable.
So to summarise:
Blue screen on attempting to access the Windows Update Troubleshooter -
basically a URL with an error in AFVXD.VXD which is part of Winsock.
Blue screen on minimising SETI screen saver.
As I mentioned this is an area outside of my expertise but as a first shot I
would be looking closely for parasites that might be causing you these
problems. I'm sure you've already checked for viruses and trojans but most AV
applications don't check for parasites although many can be as harmful if not
more so than many viruses and worms.
Sorry not to be able to offer you the help you're looking for.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP
mcmaltby@hotmail.com
Ed fron ConEd <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Ok, here are the details! by the way, it seems to happen
> without regard to what I am doing at the time. Yesterday,
> I was minimizing my SETI screen saver when it flipped out.
> Today, I was at the Windows update site looking for a way
> to uninstall the last few updates. I clicked on a link
> to "Windows Update Troubleshooter" and wham! Blue Screen
> which stated "An error has occured, to continue press any
> key or CTRL-ALT-Del etc. Filename : AFVXD (01) + 000033D7
> ERROR : 0E : 0028 : C1AB5C37"
> So I pressed any key, and the desktop returned, but IE was
> closed. I retried to open IE, but got a window message
> stating "IEXPLORE , Iexplore has caused an error in
> MSHTML.DLL , Iexplore will now close", and there was
> a "close" button in the window, which I clicked on, and
> the screen froze! I tried CTRL-ALT-DEL to bring up task
> mgr, but nothing happened, it was locked good. Tried CTRL-
> ALT-DEL to bring up task mgr again, and I got another Blue
> Screen that this time said "System is Busy, Press any key
> or CTRL-ALT_DEL ...etc." So I pressed any key, and wham! a
> different Blue Screen that said "WARNING! The system is
> busy or has become unstable. You can wait or restart.
> press any key to wait, or CTRL-ALT-DEL to reboot" So I
> pressed any key again to wait, and all I got was a blank
> black screen with my mouse pointer on it (and moveable, by
> the way). So I tried CTRL-ALT-DEL, but nothing happend, so
> I had to completely power down and reboot, so the whole
> mess can happen again in 10 or 15 minutes. This is almost
> constant for about the last week, since about 10/10 or
> 10/12. For the last few months my system has been
> otherwise VERY stable!