Event Viewer Reporting Strange Errors
This is a discussion about Event Viewer Reporting Strange Errors in the Customization Tweaking category; Running Widows 2000 on its own primary partition. . . Every time I reboot, I notice this error in the Event Viewer, under the Application Log: perfctrs: Unable to read IO control information from NBT device.
Running Widows 2000 on its own primary partition...
Every time I reboot, I notice this error in the Event Viewer, under the Application Log:
perfctrs: Unable to read IO control information from NBT device.
I am also seeing regular disk errors in the system log. One recurring one says:
The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk0\DR0.
Here is my setup:
CPU: AMD Athlon Thunderbird 900MHz w/Vantec Socket-A Cooler
OS: Windows 2000 Pro / Windows Millenium Edition / Windows 98 SE / Linux Red Hat
MONITOR: 19" Micron 900LX
MOTHERBOARD: Abit KT7-RAID Socket-A
RAM: 384MB Crucial SDRAM [PC-133/7.5ns CAS2]
CASE: 3DCool Tornado 2000 Full Tower 300 Watt w/4-Fans
HDD1: Quantum Fireball Plus LM 30.0GB Ultra ATA/66
CDROM 1: Creative 52X CDROM
CDROM 2: HP 8100 CDWriter (Running Easy CD Creator 4 / Direct CD)
PRINTER: HP DeskJet 970 Cxi [uSB]
SCANNER: HP 4100C ScanJet Scanner [uSB]
VIDEO1: Creative Labs Annihilator GeForce 2 [AGP]
VIDEO2: (2) Monster 3D II, SLI Mode [PCI]
AUDIO: Creative Labs Soundblaster Live! X-Gamer [PCI]
MODEM1: USR 56K V.90 Faxmodem [PCI]
MODEM2: Intel PRO/DSL 2100 Modem [PCI]
SPEAKERS: Advent Satellites w/Subwoofer
HEADPHONES: Optimus Headset w/Noise-Cancelling Microphone
JOYSTICK: Thrustmaster F22 Pro
THROTTLE: Thrustmaster TQS
RUDDER PEDALS: Thrustmaster RCS
MISC1: D-Link USB Hub [uSB]
MISC2: Kodak DC280 Digital Camera [uSB]
Any ideas? Or are these problems pretty much needles in a haystack?
Thanks!
Ivedog
Every time I reboot, I notice this error in the Event Viewer, under the Application Log:
perfctrs: Unable to read IO control information from NBT device.
I am also seeing regular disk errors in the system log. One recurring one says:
The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk0\DR0.
Here is my setup:
CPU: AMD Athlon Thunderbird 900MHz w/Vantec Socket-A Cooler
OS: Windows 2000 Pro / Windows Millenium Edition / Windows 98 SE / Linux Red Hat
MONITOR: 19" Micron 900LX
MOTHERBOARD: Abit KT7-RAID Socket-A
RAM: 384MB Crucial SDRAM [PC-133/7.5ns CAS2]
CASE: 3DCool Tornado 2000 Full Tower 300 Watt w/4-Fans
HDD1: Quantum Fireball Plus LM 30.0GB Ultra ATA/66
CDROM 1: Creative 52X CDROM
CDROM 2: HP 8100 CDWriter (Running Easy CD Creator 4 / Direct CD)
PRINTER: HP DeskJet 970 Cxi [uSB]
SCANNER: HP 4100C ScanJet Scanner [uSB]
VIDEO1: Creative Labs Annihilator GeForce 2 [AGP]
VIDEO2: (2) Monster 3D II, SLI Mode [PCI]
AUDIO: Creative Labs Soundblaster Live! X-Gamer [PCI]
MODEM1: USR 56K V.90 Faxmodem [PCI]
MODEM2: Intel PRO/DSL 2100 Modem [PCI]
SPEAKERS: Advent Satellites w/Subwoofer
HEADPHONES: Optimus Headset w/Noise-Cancelling Microphone
JOYSTICK: Thrustmaster F22 Pro
THROTTLE: Thrustmaster TQS
RUDDER PEDALS: Thrustmaster RCS
MISC1: D-Link USB Hub [uSB]
MISC2: Kodak DC280 Digital Camera [uSB]
Any ideas? Or are these problems pretty much needles in a haystack?
Thanks!
Ivedog
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Feb 13
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i get alot of crap in my event viewer as well, unless its hindering you from using your computer i wouldn't worry about it, i don't.

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Hmmm... Seems I don't have any performance counters turned on in the first place. There wasn't anything there to turn off.
Thanks for the advice, though. I'm sure it will come in handy somewhere down the line.
Ivedog
Thanks for the advice, though. I'm sure it will come in handy somewhere down the line.
Ivedog
That tip helped get rid of all my errors too! Turns out ever since I installed Win2000, I was getting these errors. But 2 days ago when I shut off all the perf counters, my event viewer is now clean! Hooray!