Should I be worried about these entries in the event viewer?

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In my system event viewer I have 496 warnings, 265 errors, and 11 critical entries. Should I be worried about this or is this considered normal? Software is not my forte.

The warnings include lots of WLAN-AutoConfig, k57nd60a, DNS Client Events and wininit entries.

The errors include lots of cdrom, DistributedCOM, Service Control Manager and Schannel entries, 7 disk error entries and a handful of EventLog entries.

The critical entries are all Kernel-Power (41)

What do these errors mean? What could the causes be? Is anything wrong with my system? And what can I do to fix it if there is?

If it helps at all:

- I have quite a few *ahem* free applications installed, and the O.S was originally a *ahem* special copy which has since been legitimately activated with a purchased Windows 7 Pro key. The system has had one virus infestation in its 15 month lifetime which was fixed with a few scans and a system restore.

- Once in a blue moon I will get a BSOD completely randomly (has happened once a week or so for the past few weeks).

- When I start up my system once every 4 days or so it will show an F2 error on the Dr.Debug at startup, restart and then hang on a 70 error on Dr.Debug. Turning it off and on again remedies this and it boots into windows.

- The hardware is as in the signature. I have made several threads about the errors at startup before, and nobody has had anything helpful to say on the matter.

- The only physical hardware defect the system has is a tiny tiny burned out firewire chip at the bottom of the motherboard due to some idiot (me) plugging the USB front panel connector into the firewire header when I first built the machine. I was advised that everything would be fine if I did not use the firewire header.

- The system is 100% stable and reliable apart from the recent weekly BSOD's and the occasional startup errors.

Sorry for the wall of text but these are scary and stressful times for me. I cannot afford to replace any major hardware components, the machine is worth twice as much as my current bank balance, I am by no means a professional, and I just want some help, guidance or re-assurance. I currently do not have an income, so I cannot afford to buy new components without knowing 100% that it is the issue. (yay student life, yay unemployment :( )
 
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Error 7s usually indicate a failing HDD, look deeper into them, the chances are that alone could be causing most of the other problems if OS files are sitting on bad blocks etc.

It should tell you in the detail whether it's a bad block or not.
 
I'm not sure if they are called 'error 7' just that there's 7 of them. I'll check exactly what it says later today and will pull the drives out and test them somewhen soon.

So it would definitely be the OS drive an no others..? Could it be a bad OS install..? Thanks.
 
The disk error's are 11's "The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk2\DR2."

I'm not sure what it means by Harddisk2 as I only have my OS drive and my storage drive (Harddisk0 and Harddisk1 respectively)

The cdrom errors are bad blocks however, but I guess that is just because I used to use really scratched up supermarket branded DVD-RW's which would never burn correctly.
 
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It sometimes references the CD/DVD drive as a harddisk, although that's not usually numbers 0 or 1. Check you don't have a cd/dvd in there that's blank or scratched, if the drive is empty put in a known good disk and see if the errors stop.

You could look at updating any drivers related to your hardware and firmware if you're comfortable doing so if the above doesn't help at all.
 
Halfmad said:
It sometimes references the CD/DVD drive as a harddisk, although that's not usually numbers 0 or 1. Check you don't have a cd/dvd in there that's blank or scratched, if the drive is empty put in a known good disk and see if the errors stop.

You could look at updating any drivers related to your hardware and firmware if you're comfortable doing so if the above doesn't help at all.
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The last cdrom/disk error was about 2 weeks ago. Which would be the day before I got my new Verbatim DVD+RW's having given up trying to use the ruined ones I think (hope).

In drive manager I have Disk 0 (system), Disk 1 (storage), CD-ROM 0 (Blu-Ray) and CD-ROM 1 (Virtual).
 
Kernel-Power (41) Will happen if you have system crash or you dont shutdown the system correctly.

Do you suffer from Random BSOD? that will list a Kernel-Power (41) error has the system unexpected shutdown.
You can download a free program called Blue screen viewer and it will list the drivers giving the errors.

Most of the time when BSOD happens its the result of hardware failing Like damaged RAM or the RAM isn't setup correct Timing/Voltage etc
Failing Hard-drives can make system freeze or BSOD.
 
shankly1985 said:
Kernel-Power (41) Will happen if you have system crash or you dont shutdown the system correctly.

Do you suffer from Random BSOD? that will list a Kernel-Power (41) error has the system unexpected shutdown.
You can download a free program called Blue screen viewer and it will list the drivers giving the errors.

Most of the time when BSOD happens its the result of hardware failing Like damaged RAM or the RAM isn't setup correct Timing/Voltage etc
Failing Hard-drives can make system freeze or BSOD.
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I wouldn't say that hardware is the cause 'most of the time' rather, 'some of the time'.

I do have a BSOD occasionally, but it has only been happening recently (over the past month or so). The RAM is set up correctly, and I think the hard drives check out. (I will test them properly tomorrow). I will take a look at the blue screen viewer, thanks for the tip. Other causes could be hard-freezes (total system lockup followed by hard shut down) which has only happened a couple of times, both were completely my fault because I was doing stupid things.
 
acme15 said:
I wouldn't say that hardware is the cause 'most of the time' rather, 'some of the time'.

I do have a BSOD occasionally, but it has only been happening recently (over the past month or so). The RAM is set up correctly, and I think the hard drives check out. (I will test them properly tomorrow). I will take a look at the blue screen viewer, thanks for the tip. Other causes could be hard-freezes (total system lockup followed by hard shut down) which has only happened a couple of times, both were completely my fault because I was doing stupid things.
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All them faults you have listed will show Kernel-Power (41) in event viewer. From my experiance a BSOD for me has been Hardware (mainly RAM)
But you are correct bad software can also make this happen, And the only real way of getting to bottom is a New fresh install or do a clean OS boot. If then you still get BSOD My money is on Hardware.

Blue Screen View
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html
 
Looking at your Sig are you using Asrock Extreme4 Gen3 board? If so i am 100% its your RAM. I used to use the same RAM and I had BSOD all the time and after running MEMtest I had 1000's errors.

Run a Memtest.
 
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shankly1985 said:
You need to run a Full pass to rule the RAM out. 3 little passes is not enough. Yes that the RAM I used to have, if you were to look on Google Corsair and Asrock boards dont always get along.
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'extended' is the longest one isnt it? Its the longest one in the list.

How many passes do you recommend?
 
If it HAS to be something hardware related, then in all honesty I hope it IS the RAM. Because it would be the cheapest thing to replace.
 
acme15 said:
'extended' is the longest one isnt it? Its the longest one in the list.

How many passes do you recommend?
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I forget what one it is. But you have test witch is testing that RAM sequence, then You have pass If I remember it used to take 2 hours to complete One full Pass.
If you can get One Full pass then RAM would seem OK.
But its also known to test the RAM single and not double etc. But from my test It did pick up the errors when running two sticks.
 
Show us a screenshot of what it says for the disk errors.

Worth trying this..

My Computer, right click C drive, Properties, Tools, Error Checking -Check Now

Tick both boxes, reboot and it will run chkdsk


It takes a while to run the whole thing, but it can relocate damaged sectors on your disk.



Before running this, take a backup of your files. Just in case
 
bledd. said:
Show us a screenshot of what it says for the disk errors.

Worth trying this..

My Computer, right click C drive, Properties, Tools, Error Checking -Check Now

Tick both boxes, reboot and it will run chkdsk


It takes a while to run the whole thing, but it can relocate damaged sectors on your disk.

Before running this, take a backup of your files. Just in case
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It is OK, I have established that harddisk2 is my external HDD which is a bit dodgy :)
 
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