re: System Information not displaying system information. Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at 1:26 pm Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Kirk Heller (64 messages posted) Turns out this is a wider spread issue dealing with the Net List Service... service. Might be related to AIM or Firefox2. Still doing research. This Site has a rather lengthy investigation on it. No solution yet. :( http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PageIndex=2&SiteID=17&PostID=1185469&PageID=4 On Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at 10:22 am, Kirk Heller wrote: >Windows System Information is not displaying any hardware or software information. >This is also true of the Basic Information About Your computer screen. It lists RAM >and Processor as Unknown. > > >This appears to be a problem with the winmgmt service (which IS running in services, >I checked). Additionally, I had the system rebuild the repository in c:\windows\system32\wbem\Repository >and it STILL won't display any information. > > >The error in System Information reads: > > >Can't Collect Information. Cannot access the Windows Management Instrumentation Software. >Windows Management files may be moved or missing. > > >At this point I think those files ARE missing. Anyone have any idea what they are? >Additionally, the logs in the wbem folder, wmiprov.log display many similar things >to the following: > > >(Tue Feb 13 13:27:44 2007.409703) : *************************************** >(Tue Feb 13 13:27:44 2007.409703) : Could not get pointer to binary resource for >file: >(Tue Feb 13 13:27:44 2007.409703) : C:\Windows\system32\drivers\ndis.sys[MofResourceName](Tue >Feb 13 13:27:44 2007.409703) : >(Tue Feb 13 13:27:44 2007.409703) : *************************************** >(Tue Feb 13 13:27:46 2007.411390) : *************************************** >(Tue Feb 13 13:27:46 2007.411390) : Could not get pointer to binary resource for >file: >(Tue Feb 13 13:27:46 2007.411390) : C:\Windows\system32\DRIVERS\msiscsi.sys[MofResource](Tue >Feb 13 13:27:46 2007.411390) : >(Tue Feb 13 13:27:46 2007.411390) : *************************************** >(Tue Feb 13 13:27:46 2007.411843) : *************************************** >(Tue Feb 13 13:27:46 2007.411843) : Could not get pointer to binary resource for >file: >(Tue Feb 13 13:27:46 2007.411843) : C:\Windows\system32\DRIVERS\monitor.sys[MonitorWMI](Tue >Feb 13 13:27:46 2007.411843) : >(Tue Feb 13 13:27:46 2007.411843) : *************************************** >(Tue Feb 13 13:38:00 2007.1025562) : *************************************** >(Tue Feb 13 13:38:00 2007.1025562) : Could not get pointer to binary resource for >file: >(Tue Feb 13 13:38:00 2007.1025562) : C:\Windows\system32\drivers\ndis.sys[MofResourceName](Tue >Feb 13 13:38:00 2007.1025562) : >(Tue Feb 13 13:38:00 2007.1025562) : *************************************** >(Tue Feb 13 13:38:00 2007.1025578) : *************************************** > > >Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'd rather not have to reinstall... AGAIN. > >-kirk Written in response to: System Information not displaying system information. (Kirk Heller: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at 10:22 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] System Information not displaying system information. (Kirk Heller: Tue, Feb 20, 2007, 10:22 am) re: System Information not displaying system information. (Kirk Heller: Tue, Feb 20, 2007, 1:26 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum