toncica

In my opinion there are many different problems described in this thread and the "machine check" thing being a false link of these problems. After all this event is just information in most cases and not an error. In my case there were three pairs of "machine check" and "machine check:regs" in the event log. The system is busy and not responding for about 1 minute after the desktop comes up, then my system runs fine and stable. Finally I got the meaning of these events when I disabled auto chkdsk for all drives at cold boot. chkdsk searches for the "dirty bit" (set after inproper shutdown) and moves along if it's all right. I have three harddisks installed and I had three pairs of "machine check", could make sense. So there are now no more application popup events at startup but I still have the 1 minute waiting period when the destop appears and I still don't know why is that, the search continues...(it's not network related)