Aggravating problems please help me :(

Hello, I am new here.

My rig currently consists of the following hardware:

GIGABYTE EXTREME EX-58
Intel Core i7 920 @2 .67 Stock speed
12 Gigabytes of OCZ RAM
2x WD 300 Gig Velociraptors in Raid 0
Creative X-Fi Ultimate Gamer Soundcard
PNY Performance Edition Geforce GTX285
XFX Geforce 8800GS 384 MB as PhysX card
FreeAgent 1TB Backup Drive
Razer Lycosa Keyboard
Razer Mamba Mouse
Samsung 2233RZ Monitor

I am running Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit System Builders SP1 OEM edition and have all the important updates installed, as well as most of the recommended updates installed, as well as Service Pack 2 (it comes with Service Pack 1 on the disc). I should also note that I run and use ESET Smart Security 4.0.


My problems started a few days ago. See these pictures for yourself describing the timeline and activities:

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Explorer keeps needing to restart, event viewer keeps shutting down when I try to open it (although not all the time), UT3 has problems and needs to close, and recently ONLY ONE instance of the EVGA Precision RivaTunerOSServer FAQ kept opening over and over and over again for no real discernible reason when I tried to close it in the task manager; I would close it and another instance of it would pop open. I would close it again, and yet again another instance of it would pop open with there always only being one instance. It simply WOULD NOT close until I rebooted; logging off and back on didn't help either. Once I rebooted it didn't open but I took the trouble of deleting the folder where it was located so the damn thing couldn't possibly pop up like that again and refuse to close.



Also, here are messages relating to the problem that I have kept and cut and pasted to a text file:

Microsoft Management Console


Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: mmc.exe
Application Version: 6.0.6002.18005
Application Timestamp: 49e02760
Fault Module Name: ntdll.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.0.6002.18005
Fault Module Timestamp: 49e0421d
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0000000000048d50
OS Version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033

Additional information about the problem:
LCID: 1033

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netbt problems


+ System

- Provider

[ Name] netbt

- EventID 4321

[ Qualifiers] 49152

Level 2

Task 0

Keywords 0x80000000000000

- TimeCreated

[ SystemTime] 2009-08-03T05:50:56.297Z

EventRecordID 50140

Channel System

Computer None

Security


- EventData


WORKGROUP :1d
192.168.0.4
192.168.0.2
000000000400320000000000E11000C001010000010000C06D000000000000000000000000000000


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Binary data:


In Words

0000: 00000000 00320004 00000000 C00010E1
0008: 00000101 C0000001 0000006D 00000000
0010: 00000000 00000000


In Bytes

0000: 00 00 00 00 04 00 32 00 ......2.
0008: 00 00 00 00 E1 10 00 C0 ....á..À
0010: 01 01 00 00 01 00 00 C0 .......À
0018: 6D 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 m.......
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
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Explorer stops working



Faulting application Explorer.EXE, version 6.0.6002.18005, time stamp 0x49e02a1e, faulting module ntdll.dll, version 6.0.6002.18005, time stamp 0x49e0421d, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x0000000000048d50, process id 0x8cc, application start time 0x01ca14b1ea4c344e.

+ System

- Provider

[ Name] Application Error

- EventID 1000

[ Qualifiers] 0

Level 2

Task 100

Keywords 0x80000000000000

- TimeCreated

[ SystemTime] 2009-08-04T05:56:34.000Z

EventRecordID 3031

Channel Application

Computer None

Security


- EventData

Explorer.EXE
6.0.6002.18005
49e02a1e
ntdll.dll
6.0.6002.18005
49e0421d
c0000005
0000000000048d50
8cc
01ca14b1ea4c344e
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Microsoft Management Console error 8-6-08

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: mmc.exe
Application Version: 6.0.6002.18005
Application Timestamp: 49e02760
Fault Module Name: StackHash_c768
Fault Module Version: 6.0.6002.18005
Fault Module Timestamp: 49e0421d
Exception Code: c0000374
Exception Offset: 00000000000aef37
OS Version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: c768
Additional Information 2: 794da4c27230dd50d342e23a20d2a42d
Additional Information 3: b5af
Additional Information 4: 88a514a08c21301063177474000282fa

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Help!!!

Squibbyish:

Try an SFC scan.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/66978-system-files-sfc-command.html

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Check the jpeg entitled "sfc results". It was performed on an elevated command prompt, per instructions. What should I do now?

Squibbyish:

Sorry about that, yeah, a nice clean scan. I can't read the other images.
I suppose you've tried the System Restore route.

Ardneh said:

Squibbyish:

Sorry about that, yeah, a nice clean scan. I can't read the other images.
I suppose you've tried the System Restore route.

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You can't read them? You should be able to, you just have to click on them three times in order to get it enlarged. I can enlarge the photos fine, just keep clicking until they enlarge. If somehow you can't get to the information in the photos then that's ok, but it's hard to describe the symptoms to you otherwise. The photos contain information from an MMC snap-in.

Oh, I haven't tried system restore yet honestly. I am kind of hesitant to try that until I know what I am dealing with, and frankly I don't have a clue at the moment. I do remember enabling HPET in the Gigabyte Bios right around the moment all this stuff started going wack. I should mention that ESET Smart Security caught a couple of infections, but that was before this all started and they have been quarantined. Scans since this all started have brought up nothing, and Smart Security is one of the best AV products you can get for your money.

I just now tried to run CCleaner in the recycle bin and explorer crashed. Then when I went to open Firefox to log back in it said Firefox was still running, even though Firefox wasn't open on the taskbar or visible in any way except through the Task Manager. So I had to end task Firefox through the Task Manager and then REOPEN another instance of it.

Should I System Restore anyway? I will do that if you think it's best, but I would like to know what the problem is first if possible and perhaps I could give you anymore needed info if you request it, I am certainly willing to do so to get to the root of the problem.

Squibbyish:

If you have a working restore point 7/29 or before it might be worth trying.

Ardneh said:

Squibbyish:

If you have a working restore point 7/29 or before it might be worth trying.

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Then I will do that and keep you up to date on things. Hopefully that will solve it. Thanks for now

Also, I have several before 7/29, so I will do so.