Event Viewer Errors!

[Fineghal]

I'm running Windows 2000 pro sp4

I was looking at my event viewer a few minutes ago and it's showing the normal items... "Windows Service Pack" "nt Update" etc. Then I scroll down and I see it's been logging disk warnings and DCOM errors.

They occur in the log in intervals of between 10 seconds and 75 seconds or so.

The DCOM error reads:
DCOM got error "The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it. " attempting to start the service NSCService with arguments "" in order to run the server:
{09B7ADDC-8BF0-409B-8571-43E8EA2AAFA3}

This has been occuring for as far back as my even log goes, so it isn't apparently anything that's going to destroy my system, but I'd like to resolve it.

The next is a bit more confusing.
Disk Warning:
The driver detected that the device \Device\Harddisk1\DR1 has its write cache enabled. Data corruption may occur.

It started in the logs at 7:11 pm yesterday. This is slightly unnerving because my mother accidently deleted 140 megs of her work related files and I had to go in and recover them.
Now I got all the files back, but now this disk warning is being thrown every 20-30 seconds that the computer has been on from then to 1:26 this afternoon.

Thoughts? Ideas?

 

[Rilex]

All that the second error is saying is that you either have SCSI or some other form of removable disk (could be an internal SATA drive that shows up as removable, even) that has the write-cache enabled on the drive. What can basically happen is either in a power loss (SCSI) or you remove the drive without going through the safely remove hardware (external HDD, etc.) you could lose data because the write cache is turned on, that is, the OS sends the data to the disk which stores it in a cache before periodically committing it to the platters on the disk.

Not a big deal if this is an internal drive or if it is SCSI, that this isn't some mission critical server. Disabling write cache will reduce the write performance of your drive.

As for the first error, that is an COM application that cannot start. It looks like it is the Norton line of products. If you have uninstalled Norton, you can simply ignore it...If you haven't, I'd just try a repair install of Norton.

 

[Fineghal]

Norton problem? Awesome. I disabled that extremely annoying "Protection Suite" crap they had installed. Alas this is the family pc, and a free anti-vir is obviously not as good as Norton.

:rolly eyes:

Thanks!