re: System Information not displaying system information.
Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at 1:26 pm
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
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