Curiouser and curiouser... As I mentioned, a recently re-installed/reformatted drive, never had IE 5 or Office 97 on board, not knowingly with Yahoo messenger either (I saw those references in my search and figure , note me!
Anyway, right now the problem is that I cannot get into XP, apparently I need an XP disc to do this which IBM did not provide. Are my Rescue and Repair CDs useless for this?? stuartf On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 3:00 PM, RayBay <[email protected]> wrote: > Somehow related to Yahoo Messenger in most cases... also occurs on > computers with Word 97 or Office 97, or with Internet Explorer 5 installed > at some time in the past. Also, if you have previously downloaded > "Netsonic" > > Search for files that have this as part of the file name: "MNSTR", > "MNSTR2", or if you have downloaded Voodoo II, Monstor Voodoo, My Yahoo.DLL, > or Diamond Video drivers by mistake... > > Common error if you have 3dfx Voodoo 3, but don't imagine that would apply > here. > > Anyway, it is commonly found associated with messeneger programs and some > video... and older software that is part of an old and favorite program... > > If any of those apply, use a simple registry editor such as RegClean by > Juoni Viourno to remove those lines from the registry. > > > > ________ > > If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't > have anything to laugh at when you are old. > > . . . . . . . . . Will Rogers > > > > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Bruce Markowitz <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> Sounds like it could be a bad hard drive. What is Mandravia? Did you try >> just using SP2 and not SP3? >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Stuart Friedman" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 2:22 PM >> Subject: [Thinkpad] Where to start?? XP problem on a dual boot T43 >> >> >> > Computer T43 2687-D4U, 15" Flexview XP SP 3 with all updates, Mandriva >> > 2009 >> > >> > OK, About two weeks ago, faced with ongoing and unsolvable wireless >> > problems >> > in Windows, I reinstalled Windows. Over the course of a week, I got all >> my >> > essentials back and life was good. Then, suddenly two days ago, things >> > froze >> > while in Windows. I was trying to access a music file at the time in >> Media >> > Player. When I re-booted, things froze at the XP splash screen. >> > >> > When I put in the rescue disk I can look in events log and get two >> > different >> > errors, one which corresponds to the time of the freeze: >> > >> > RRU Co create Instance error -2147024894 >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Stuart Friedman >> > Montpelier, VT USA >> > 802.522.6228 >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Thinkpad mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Thinkpad mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad >> > > -- Stuart Friedman Montpelier, VT USA 802.522.6228 _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
