Event Viewer Reporting Strange Errors

[Ivedog 0]

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

[EddiE314 0]

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.

[Ivedog 0]

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

[Mike Zamarocy 1]

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!