I have a question about Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000:

Please help - I'm not illiterate with computers but, on the other hand, just know enough to be dangerous. I just "up-graded" from 98SE to 2000Pro and have been having random, intermittant crashes of my system - daily. The messages from the Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Event Viewer are as follows...(1) The value named There was no Announce in the server's Registry key LanmanServer\Parameters was invalid. The value was ignored, and processing continued & (2) The ASPI32 service failed to start due to the following error: The system cannot find the file specified. I don't know what either of these are or how to fix them. Please be very elementary in your explanation of the causes and the fixes. Thank you in advance. drew

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Drew
1st ? did you do a clean install of win2k or just put win2k on the same drive where 
windows 98 was ??
if so 1st error,win2k runs great if you do a clean install and put it on a new drive 
letter ...or 2nd HD
If you put it on the same partition you will have error after error unitl you do 
it right...
I know it said upgrade BUT not on the same drive letter.
You can take my word for it or not and play with unitl you get tried of all the errors 
and start over...
ASPI32 this error is coming from the cd rom system you may need to get the upgrade 
for this one...







On Thursday, July 15, 2004 at 10:34 pm, Drew Meng wrote:

>I have a question about Top 

>reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000:


>Please help - I'm not illiterate with computers but, on the other hand, just know 

>enough to be dangerous.  I just "up-graded" from 98SE to 2000Pro and have been having 

>random, intermittant crashes of my system - daily.  The messages from the Control 

>Panel/Administrative Tools/Event Viewer are as follows...(1) The value named There 

>was no Announce in the server's Registry key LanmanServer\Parameters was invalid. 

> The value was ignored, and processing continued & (2) The ASPI32 service failed 

>to start due to the following error: The system cannot find the file specified. 
 

>I don't know what either of these are or how to fix them.  Please be very elementary 

>in your explanation of the causes and the fixes.  Thank you in advance.  drew

>
 

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In regards to the system event message: The ASPI32 service failed to start due to the following error: The system cannot find the file specified. I eliminated this message from being posted to the system event message by deleting the registry entry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Service\ASPI32 As best as I could determine the ASPI32 service was not needed in my Win2000 and this probaby was a artifact of some uninstall that didn't clean up that entry. Obviously, since the service didn't start and I have no wrong system behavior, I don't need that entry. Also, ASPI32 didn't show up as a service in the Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Services and that's why you have to delete it from the registry to get rid of this error. The other solution is to simply ignore the bogus error.


On Thursday, July 15, 2004 at 10:34 pm, Drew Meng wrote:
>I have a question about Top
>reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000:

>Please help - I'm not illiterate with computers but, on the other hand, just know
>enough to be dangerous. I just "up-graded" from 98SE to 2000Pro and have been having
>random, intermittant crashes of my system - daily. The messages from the Control
>Panel/Administrative Tools/Event Viewer are as follows...(1) The value named There
>was no Announce in the server's Registry key LanmanServer\Parameters was invalid.
> The value was ignored, and processing continued & (2) The ASPI32 service failed
>to start due to the following error: The system cannot find the file specified.
>I don't know what either of these are or how to fix them. Please be very elementary
>in your explanation of the causes and the fixes. Thank you in advance. drew
>

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One followup note: If you have Nero CD DVD Programs installed, they have a toolkit program that they call "Nero InfoTool". If you run that program they have a tab called ASPI. When I looked at that tab, I found out that I didn't have the "system ASPI" installed, but I did have the "Nero ASPI" installed and it was working properly. I then went to "http://www.adaptec.com", did a search for ASPI and found their lastest ASPI download for my system. I downloaded it and installed it. After a reboot, I checked my event log and it was still clean. I then when back into the Nero InfoTool and checked the ASPI tab. I now found that both the system ASPI and Nero ASPI were both working correctly. I'm not sure if this corrects any problems, but it probably a better state especially if your using cd and/or dvd burning programs.


On Monday, August 2, 2004 at 7:19 pm, Tom wrote:
>In regards to the system event message: The ASPI32 service failed to start due to
>the following error: The system cannot find the file specified.
>
>I eliminated this message from being posted to the system event message by deleting
>the registry entry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Service\ASPI32
>As best as I could determine the ASPI32 service was not needed in my Win2000 and
>this probaby was a artifact of some uninstall that didn't clean up that entry. Obviously,
>since the service didn't start and I have no wrong system behavior, I don't need
>that entry. Also, ASPI32 didn't show up as a service in the Control Panel/Administrative
>Tools/Services and that's why you have to delete it from the registry to get rid
>of this error. The other solution is to simply ignore the bogus error.
>
>

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http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~aa571/aspi.htm







On Tuesday, August 3, 2004 at 8:11 am, Tom wrote:

>One followup note:  If you have Nero CD DVD Programs installed, they have a toolkit 

>program that they call "Nero InfoTool".  If you run that program they have a tab 

>called ASPI.  When I looked at that tab, I found out that I didn't have the "system 

>ASPI" installed, but I did have the "Nero ASPI" installed and it was working properly. 

> I then went to "http://www.adaptec.com", did a search for ASPI and found their 
lastest 

>ASPI download for my system.  I downloaded it and installed it.  After a reboot, 

>I checked my event log and it was still clean.  I then when back into the Nero InfoTool 

>and checked the ASPI tab.  I now found that both the system ASPI and Nero ASPI were 

>both working correctly.  I'm not sure if this corrects any problems, but it probably 

>a better state especially if your using cd and/or dvd burning programs.

>

>

> 

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