SL Service = Software Licensing Service. An essential to be running at all
times.
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"cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)" <cquirkenews@nospam.mvps.org> wrote in
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> On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 05:15:08 -0800, iLLz
>
>>Last night, I totally reformatted my machine and did another clean
>>install.
>>Everything went well and my control panel was back. I left my PC on all
>>night and it locked up for some reason, I think it might be my graphics
>>card
>>drivers they are the Nvidia 8800GTX beta ones that Nvidia still has out.
>
> I never like to see "beta" and "drivers" in the same sentence.
>
>>I think when my PC puts my monitor to sleep the faulty graphics drivers
>>makes my pc lock up. I rebooted it this morning and my problem is back.
>
> In previous versions of Windows, one can sometimes see that failure
> pattern (suspended monitor stays black screen when attempts are made
> to clear the suspended state) where the monitor is incorrectly
> specified. IOW, the graphics drivers are OK, but the monitor type is
> wrong - for example, when you connect an arbitrary monitor to a Win9x
> system and then cancel the PnP "new hardware detected" dialog when PnP
> tries to set up the detected monitor type.
>
> Sometimes Windows is still working, sometimes it isn't, and sometimes
> the processing has stopped entirely (hard crash).
>
> To see whether the PC is still processing, watch the keyboard state
> LEDs when you press CapeLock, numLock etc. If "very busy" or hard
> locked up, the LEDs will not respond. If they respond, then at least
> you know the processor's still handling keyboard interrupts.
>
> Recent PCs will shut down or suspend when the case power button is
> pressed; try that as a way out.
>
>>control panel until after i restart the SL Service. I have already
>>activated
>>my copy of Vista 3 times trying to rememdy this. Any and all help is
>>welcome.
>
> SL Service?
>
>
>
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