computer reboots (crashes) on its own

**lynchknot** · February 2nd, 2004, 04:26 AM

Anyone know how to turn that off so I can see what may be causing this? Thanks,.

**Big Booger** · February 2nd, 2004, 05:04 AM

http://home.earthlink.net/~lreynol92...l/REBOOTOF.HTM

**lynchknot** · February 2nd, 2004, 06:35 AM

It says that windows cannot send admin alerts unless alerter service is started. I don't see any "alerter" service in services.

**Reverend** · February 2nd, 2004, 09:29 AM

Originally Posted by lynchknot

It says that windows cannot send admin alerts unless alerter service is started. I don't see any "alerter" service in services.

Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services. It should be the first one in the list "Alerter".

**lynchknot** · February 2nd, 2004, 17:23 PM

**Coffee** · February 3rd, 2004, 17:25 PM

Perform a repair...
http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsXP/e...nox/doug92.asp

**lynchknot** · February 3rd, 2004, 19:06 PM

crap! While performing repair I get this error "The procedure entry point GetIUMS could not be found in the dynamic link library MSDART.DLL" - now set up is stick with 13 minutes left.

**Big Booger** · February 4th, 2004, 01:14 AM

What have you changed to your OS lately? What have you installed/uninstalled? I am sure whatever you did it caused the change. Just undo whatever you did, if you can. Try the repair again. See if it works. If not, you're on the road to reformat city. If you created an backup, you could restore your OS in minutes.

**lynchknot** · February 4th, 2004, 17:03 PM

well, it repaired anyway but I still don't have alerter service. I even ran sfc/scannow and found no files missing.

**Coffee** · February 4th, 2004, 18:18 PM

Just a thought but it would probably be a good idea to look for any other missing services before installing too much new software. Run services.msc then open the help file and index to 'defaults, services settings'.

**lynchknot** · February 4th, 2004, 19:04 PM

computer browser is also missing

**rik** · February 4th, 2004, 19:13 PM

Try this from the Run Command: C:\WINNT\System32\svchost.exe -k LocalService

**lynchknot** · February 4th, 2004, 23:02 PM

Originally Posted by rik

Try this from the Run Command: C:\WINNT\System32\svchost.exe -k LocalService

http://www.quickbase.com/up/8q9jbnau.../eg/va/qqq.JPG

**Coffee** · February 4th, 2004, 23:24 PM

What exactly does the error related to the Alerter service say? and are there any other alerts in the event log that sound related to this problem?

The 'Alerter' service is simply a service that can be used to report errors to Admin if you on a Domain and the 'Computer Browser' service is for browsing for other network workstations, so if your not too worried about either of these two things it shouldn't really be much trouble to you.