Media Center in Vista locks computer

After loading the windows updates last week, almost every time I run windows
media center it locks my computer and I have to power it off and restart. I
attempted to undo the updates by using system restore but it returns saying
there were errors trying to restore and nothing was changed. After restarting
computer about 3 or 4 times media center plays correctly and doesn't lock the
whole computer.
--
Jason

There's several things to try here.
Try updating your video drivers from the manufacturer's website.
Check your Event Viewer for errors in the Application and System section of
the Windows Logs (Go to Start and type in "eventvwr.msc" (without the quotes)
and press Enter) to see if there's any errors related to the "locking" of the
computer (check the time stamps to verify this). Let us know what you find
and we can work from there.

- John


"Jason" wrote:

> After loading the windows updates last week, almost every time I run windows
> media center it locks my computer and I have to power it off and restart. I
> attempted to undo the updates by using system restore but it returns saying
> there were errors trying to restore and nothing was changed. After restarting
> computer about 3 or 4 times media center plays correctly and doesn't lock the
> whole computer.
> --
> Jason

These are the errors associated with the timestamp where the computer locked.
There are 2 separate entries.

The performance strings in the Performance registry value is corrupted when
process Performance extension counter provider. The BaseIndex value from the
Performance registry is the first DWORD in the Data section, LastCounter
value is the second DWORD in the Data section, and LastHelp value is the
third DWORD in the Data section.
Log Name: Application
Source: Microsoft-Windows-LoadPerf
Date: 10/16/2007 5:50:33 AM
Event ID: 3012
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: User-PC
Description:
The performance strings in the Performance registry value is corrupted when
process Performance extension counter provider. The BaseIndex value from the
Performance registry is the first DWORD in the Data section, LastCounter
value is the second DWORD in the Data section, and LastHelp value is the
third DWORD in the Data section.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-LoadPerf"
Guid="{122EE297-BB47-41AE-B265-1CA8D1886D40}" EventSourceName="LoadPerf" />
<EventID Qualifiers="49152">3012</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2007-10-16T12:50:33.000Z" />
<EventRecordID>14019</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>User-PC</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<UserData>
<EventXML
xmlns:auto-ns2="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events"
xmlns="LoadPerf">
<param1>Performance</param1>
<binaryDataSize>16</binaryDataSize>
<binaryData>37070000000000000000000015030000</binaryData>
</EventXML>
</UserData>
</Event>


Unloading the performance counter strings for service WmiApRpl (WmiApRpl)
failed. The first DWORD in the Data section contains the error code.

<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-LoadPerf"
Guid="{122EE297-BB47-41AE-B265-1CA8D1886D40}" EventSourceName="LoadPerf" />
<EventID Qualifiers="49152">3011</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2007-10-16T12:50:33.000Z" />
<EventRecordID>14020</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>User-PC</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
- <UserData>
- <EventXML xmlns:auto-ns2="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events"
xmlns="LoadPerf">
<param1>WmiApRpl</param1>
<param2>WmiApRpl</param2>
<binaryDataSize>8</binaryDataSize>
<binaryData>F203000066070000</binaryData>
</EventXML>
</UserData>
</Event>



--
Jason


"usasma" wrote:

> There's several things to try here.
> Try updating your video drivers from the manufacturer's website.
> Check your Event Viewer for errors in the Application and System section of
> the Windows Logs (Go to Start and type in "eventvwr.msc" (without the quotes)
> and press Enter) to see if there's any errors related to the "locking" of the
> computer (check the time stamps to verify this). Let us know what you find
> and we can work from there.
>
> - John
>
>
> "Jason" wrote:
>
> > After loading the windows updates last week, almost every time I run windows
> > media center it locks my computer and I have to power it off and restart. I
> > attempted to undo the updates by using system restore but it returns saying
> > there were errors trying to restore and nothing was changed. After restarting
> > computer about 3 or 4 times media center plays correctly and doesn't lock the
> > whole computer.
> > --
> > Jason