sysdrv system cannot find the file specified

[niczar 0]

i bout a new optorite cd-burner and tried to install it as secondary master (i have one 120GB primary master and a 52X as secondary slave on an Athlon 1400 system with 256MB ram). and ever since then my computer never stays on for more then 10 minutes.it reboots itself. i disconnected all the drives except the hard drive but still nothing, it still reboots. i tried last good known option, still nothing.

in the event viewer it gives this error:

Event ID - 7000

Source - Service Control Manager

Description - sysdrv system cannot find the file specified. could anyone PLS PLS PLS help me out. As nature has it i have a project to work on . THANX A MILLIONS to all those who do.

 

[gchq 0]

I am getting the very same error code on a W2K Server Quad Xeon box - no changes in hardware at all, just started to appear - same event ID number as well!

[Sampson 0]

niczar - you may be experiencing this problem because that drive is not supported under XP but only for W98, NT, and W2k. It may have installed a device driver that is incompatible with XP.

 

gchq - this is what Microsoft says about your error:

CAUSE

These error messages may occur if you move the "Documents and Settings" folder to a location that is not immediately accessible when the computer starts. For example, the error messages may occur if you move the "Documents and Settings" folder to a volume mount point for a large volume set. When this issue occurs, services that are configured to run under a specific user account may not start.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this issue, move the service account's profile back to the system disk.

you can read the full article here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315194

[Edited by Sampson on 2004-07-09 09:13:57]

 

[gchq 0]

Sampson

 

Thanks for that - but still seems a mystery as the Documents and Setting directory has not been moved from the default since installation!

[Sampson 0]

Is your system now working? or is it not? Are you asking now that it works, how did this happen? There can be various reasons how this can happen - 1) an attempt was made to repair an installation, but rather than repair, it created a second instance. 2) someone attempted to gain admininistrator privileges and botched it, 3) a "hijack" occured through a trojan/worm to gain access to passwords and set in place its own administrator's profile.

Those are a few I can think of.

[gchq 0]

Quote:

Is your system now working? or is it not? Are you asking now that it works, how did this happen? There can be various reasons how this can happen - 1) an attempt was made to repair an installation, but rather than repair, it created a second instance. 2) someone attempted to gain admininistrator privileges and botched it, 3) a "hijack" occured through a trojan/worm to gain access to passwords and set in place its own administrator's profile.
Those are a few I can think of.

It comes up with that error every time it is started - seems to be looking for file(s) for the System Log Service. I must confess I have just put up with it and let it run as nothing actually seems to have been effected! No attempts have been made at a repair, as with any W2K server on the net people constantly try to gain access, par for the course now and I monitor for possible trojans/worms with Port Explorer and Process Explorer!

[gchq 0]

Further on down the rabbit hole.....

 

I thought I might have tracked the problem to :-

 

http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM_AGOBOT.ZJ

 

But not so!

 

No entries in the registry! However in services I DID find an entry under "System Log Service" and a path to system32 looking for svsys.exe - this file doesn't exist - but the actual system log is working fine and quite happily reporting that it isn't starting up! For now I have disabled this at startup!