I know that picture isn't too good, but it was the best I could get.
When this happens, I have to do a hard reboot, it will just stay in this state until I do a reboot.
Other times it gets dark horizontal lines sporadically placed across the screen. Or certain items, like the mouse pointer, will get to be like a small box with just ragged lines and no picture displaying. (No pictures of this at this time, but will try to grab one the next time it happens.)
Sometimes, after this, the screen will black out and then come back up. Other times, it will reboot the computer itself. Most of the times (or so it seems), I have to do a hard reboot myself.
The Event Viewer shows the following warning in System:
Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Sentinel
Event Category: None
Event ID: 19
Date: 3/7/2009
Time: 4:57:22 PM
User: N/A
Computer: KL
Description:
The description for Event ID ( 19 ) in Source ( Sentinel ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: .
Data:
0000: 00 00 13 00 01 00 6a 00 ......j.
0008: 00 00 00 00 13 00 07 80 .......
0010: 32 0b 00 00 00 00 00 00 2.......
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0028: 4e 54 53 49 4c 49 3a 44 NTSILI:D
0030: 72 69 76 65 72 45 6e 74 riverEnt
0038: 72 79 00 ry.
Data:
0000: 00130000 006a0001 00000000 80070013
0010: 00000b32 00000000 00000000 00000000
0020: 00000000 00000000 4953544e 443a494c
0030: 65766972 746e4572 007972
And the following error:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7000
Date: 3/7/2009
Time: 4:57:52 PM
User: N/A
Computer: KL
Description:
The Sentinel service failed to start due to the following error:
The system cannot find the device specified.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft....link/events.asp.
The Event Viewer shows the following event in the ACEEventLog:
Event Type: Information
Event Source: ACEEventLogSource
Event Category: None
Event ID: 0
Date: 3/7/2009
Time: 4:59:13 PM
User: N/A
Computer: KL
Description:
0000000001: 2009-03-07 16:59:13:406 Unable to obtain value for Force TV Detection, DEM returned status: 6
Error Called by: ATI.ACE.CLI.Aspect.DisplaysOptions.Graphics.Runtime.RT_DisplaysOptions::Parse_ForceTVDetection processID:02400 threadID:(CLIRuntime ) domainName:(cli.exe ) assemblyName:(CLI.Aspect.DisplaysOptions.Graphics.Runtime, Version=1.2.2267.28635, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=90ba9c70f846762e)
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For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft....link/events.asp.
Around this same time the following warning shows in the Event Viwer in Applications:
Event Type: Warning
Event Source: SQLBrowser
Event Category: None
Event ID: 3
Date: 3/7/2009
Time: 4:57:38 PM
User: N/A
Computer: KL
Description:
The configuration of the AdminConnection\TCP protocol in the SQL instance SQLEXPRESS is not valid.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft....link/events.asp.
And am also noticing the following errors in applications:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Ci
Event Category: CI Service
Event ID: 4124
Date: 3/7/2009
Time: 4:53:45 PM
User: N/A
Computer: KL
Description:
Content index on c:\system volume information\catalog.wci is corrupt. Please shutdown and restart the Indexing Service (cisvc).
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft....link/events.asp.
and
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Ci
Event Category: CI Service
Event ID: 4126
Date: 3/7/2009
Time: 4:53:45 PM
User: N/A
Computer: KL
Description:
Cleaning up corrupt content index metadata on c:\system volume information\catalog.wci. Index will be automatically restored by refiltering all documents.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft....link/events.asp.
Jimmy2012 was helping me over on the malware forum, because I thought it might be a malware issue. He suggested I post over here and see if you all could help or have any ideas or suggestions.