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I would save my data, or use a new hard drive, and this one as a USB external enclosure, then start from scratch rather than put up with an unknown infestation. ________ 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 1:38 PM, Stuart Friedman <[email protected]>wrote: > 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
