Solved Event log service is unavailable?

[richc46]

How about this, back up your stuff, just in case. Then, with the Windows 7 DVD, do a repair. That should work, and you probably will not need the back up, but you will have it just in case.

That's gonna have to be my next step. SFC only found a few corrupted files... and they were all corrupted on purpose (patched to run third-paarty themes, icons, start buttons).

Oh, and the command "sfc /verifyonly" was supposed to only check the files, not fix them... but it fixed them anyway. So I've got to repatch everything anyway. Feh.

To perform this function, system image would work, possibly even system restore for some of the changes.

 

[stevieray]

OK, a correction. the two applications that I get warnings about are MMC and GUI MFC... a simple warning box saying "Blank application has stopped working. Windows will search for a solution." is the only info it gave me... and I can't get more info without Event Viewer... but Event Viewer is probably tied to these two errors. Doh!

I'll probably run a repair install when I get back from work... off to the salt mines!

 

[stevieray]

Had to run the repair install to get Event Viewer back. I'm still trying to get my system back to normal... most things went smoothly, like the custom icons and themes, but I have a library problem now. The repair install renamed my second HD from K: to D:, and now I can't access any of my documents, music, videos, or pictures. Well, I can see they are there if I go through Computer>D>doc, music, etc... but I can't access them through libraries, explorer, restorator, etc... all of the paths are broken.

 

[richc46]

Does a repair install give you windows.old.?

 

[stevieray]

Does a repair install give you windows.old.?

Yep.

 

[richc46]

Does a repair install give you windows.old.?

Yep.

Can you install your missing documents from that? You should be able to, that is what it is for.

 

[stevieray]

Install them where? They are already on the second HD... its disk letter has just been changed. I think it would be easier and neater to find a way to make the drive letters match... or should I overwrite or move/replace the data on disk D: with the version saved in Windows.old? Will that fix the broken paths?

PS taking ownership of the entire Windows.old file takes an extremely long time... heh.

 

[richc46]

I think that the easiest way is to change the drive letters, so they match. I will have to research to find out the best way.

 

[stevieray]

I think that the easiest way is to change the drive letters, so they match. I will have to research to find out the best way.

I got it fixed. Brink saved the day... see here.

Thanks for all your help!

 

[richc46]

I'm really glad for you. Thanks for getting back and letting me know.

 

[stevieray]

Here is the latest info on this problem just in case someone else has the same experience.

Some of the error messages I received prior to the Event Viewer failing may or may not be related to EV's problems. Those error messages were:

"Load ycc fail!!"
"GUI MFC application has stopped working"

Both of those were caused by EasyTuner6, a Gigabyte BIOS utility for tuning (overclocking) your BIOS from Windows environment, instead of in the BIOS itself. The fix for this is to uninstall the app, which usually requires Revo Uninstaller, as the app's own uninstaller rarely works. I'm still not sure if these two issues are related to the Event Viewer/log service crash.

The third error message was:

"MMC has stopped working"

This error is definitely related to the Event Viewer problem. Unfortunately, I cannot find any easy or elegant fix, (of course that doesn't mean one isn't out there, only that I couldn't find it), just a repair install. This problem pops up in Vista and Server 2008 as well.

 

[ttoomm]

OK. I just logged on because I was having the same problem and found a solution.

The following Services need to be running. On my Win 7 Home Premium some were set to "manual":

• Windows Error Reporting Service
• Windows Event Collector
• Windows Event Log (this was OK, automatic)

 

[stasioau]

Hi. Have similar and not similar situation. When try connect to my computer USB case USB store device, computer goes down. After some time start again without any warning. Goes to Event Viewer but does not work. Check Services COM+ are OK. Try run sfc /scannow , was running but no report at the end and no solution. There is no any Restore point. Running "Best connection" from F8, without solution.When open computer case, and looks for USB connection, find that mass wire connection from USB block was disconnected. It is looks when attach USB Storage Device get some kind of "spark". Will appreciate suggestion. Regards
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Try to run sfc/scannow again. After 3-d time start running. Get cbs.log file.After that run [FONT=&quot]"findstr /c:"[SR]" %windir%\logs\cbs\cbs.log >C:\sfcdetails.txt" to get list corrupted files. There is about 100 corrupted file. My conclusion is to safe what I can and start with Windows 7 again. Any suggestion will be very important. Regards[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]

 

[mufeez1987]

Thanks

OK. I just logged on because I was having the same problem and found a solution.

The following Services need to be running. On my Win 7 Home Premium some were set to "manual":

• Windows Error Reporting Service
• Windows Event Collector
• Windows Event Log (this was OK, automatic)

Thank You!!! My pc was having the same problem but its solved now