Need some help with a long standing problem

[FNP90]

I haven't been able to play games on my computer for a long time, it shuts the monitor off. I updated my computer almost a year ago and have had this problem ever since. I changed the video card, memory and CPU. I thought my problem might be in the memory so I replaced my OCZ memory with Crucial memory, that was what was recommend from Intel's web site and got the memory Crucial recommended for my motherboard (Intel D875PBZ). I have a EVGA video card (256-A8-N507-AX) that I just updated to the latest driver and now I can play operation flashpoint for almost ten minutes, before I couldn't reach 5 minutes of game play. The monitor goes black and then it's like it's in sleep mode. I have to reboot my computer manually. I check the event viewer and I get these ploblems..

DCOM got error "The service database is locked. " attempting to start the service EventSystem with arguments "" in order to run the server:
{1BE1F766-5536-11D1-B726-00C04FB926AF}

DCOM got error "The service database is locked. " attempting to start the service winmgmt with arguments "" in order to run the server:
{8BC3F05E-D86B-11D0-A075-00C04FB68820}

DCOM got error "The service database is locked. " attempting to start the service netman with arguments "" in order to run the server:
{BA126AE5-2166-11D1-B1D0-00805FC1270E}

The mrtRate service failed to start due to the following error:
The system cannot find the file specified.

I have alwasy recived the "mrtRate service failed" but, the DCOM errors are new. When I updated my video card driver and restarted my computer the DCOM errors were gone untill I tried to play the game and now I get those again.

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My computer...

CPU-Z Report
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CPU-Z version 1.32.1.
CPU(s)
Number of CPUs 2 (1 Physical)

CPU#1 APIC ID = 0
Name Intel Pentium 4
Code Name Northwood
Specification Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz
Family / Model / Stepping F 2 9
Extended Family / Model 0 0
Brand ID 9
Package mPGA-478
Core Stepping D1
Technology 0.13 um
Supported Instructions Sets MMX, SSE, SSE2
CPU Clock Speed 3391.4 MHz
Clock multiplier x 17.0
Front Side Bus Frequency 199.5 MHz
Bus Speed 798.0 MHz
L1 Data Cache 8 KBytes, 4-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L1 Trace Cache 12 Kuops, 8-way set associative
L2 Cache 512 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L2 Speed 3391.4 MHz (Full)
L2 Location On Chip
L2 Data Prefetch Logic yes
L2 Bus Width 256 bits

CPU#2 APIC ID = 1
CPU Name Intel Pentium 4 (logical unit)


Mainboard and chipset
Motherboard manufacturer Intel Corporation
Motherboard model D875PBZ, AAC26680-205
BIOS vendor Intel Corp.
BIOS revision BZ87510A.86A.0125.P34.0503312215
BIOS release date 03/31/2005
Chipset Intel i875P rev. A2
Southbridge Intel 82801EB (ICH5) rev. 02
Sensor chip ITE F0D1
FSB Select 800 MHz
Performance Mode enabled
Graphic Interface AGP
AGP Status enabled, rev. 3.0
AGP Data Transfer Rate 8x
AGP Max Rate 8x
AGP Side Band Addressing supported, enabled

Memory
DRAM Type DDR-SDRAM
DRAM Size 2048 MBytes
DRAM Frequency 199.5 MHz
FSBRAM 1:1
CAS# Latency 3.0 clocks
RAS# to CAS# 3 clocks
RAS# Precharge 3 clocks
Cycle Time (TRAS) 8 clocks
# of memory modules 2
Module 0 Samsung DDR-SDRAM PC3200 - 1024 MBytes
Module 1 Samsung DDR-SDRAM PC3200 - 1024 MBytes

Software
Windows version Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
DirectX version 9.0c

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I also upgraded my CPU cooler and I ran prime95 torture test for over a half an hour and according to speedfan my temps never got over 45C.

 

[Slikkster]

Do you have an Audigy soundcard from Creative? That's probably the source of your Dcom errors, and possibly your lockups.

Read here:

http://www.abxzone.com/forums/windows-nt-2000-xp-2003/52998-nightmare.html


The mrtrate error is a common one. Sounds like you had a version of "Quicken" on the PC but uninstalled it, right? The registry still has an entry for this file, however. Here's how to get rid of it:

If you've already removed Quicken, then you can remove the orphaned driver
entry in the registry.

Open Regedit and navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\mrtRate


Delete that key. Restart Windows

 

[dclive]

The System portion of the event log has no other information at the time of the monitor powering off? No memory dump files in c:\windows\memory.dmp (file)? No minidumps in c:\windows\minidumps (folder) that correspond with the time of these problems?

 

[FNP90]

Originally posted by: Slikkster
Do you have an Audigy soundcard from Creative? That's probably the source of your Dcom errors, and possibly your lockups.

Read here:

http://www.abxzone.com/forums/windows-nt-2000-xp-2003/52998-nightmare.html


The mrtrate error is a common one. Sounds like you had a version of "Quicken" on the PC but uninstalled it, right? The registry still has an entry for this file, however. Here's how to get rid of it:

If you've already removed Quicken, then you can remove the orphaned driver
entry in the registry.

Open Regedit and navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\mrtRate


Delete that key. Restart Windows

So I tried one of those suggestions at the link and I no longer have any of the DCOM errors after reboot. I went into add/remove programs and uninstalled creative mediasource. I played operation flashpoint and it still crashed at the same time in the game. After I hit reset on the tower and windows booted up I checked the event log the DCOM was still gone. From what those people at the link were experiencing I thought that would have fixed my problem, but I still can't play games. This is very frustrating.

As for the other error I get, the one for quicken, I still use that program. If I delete that key will quicken still work?

 

[FNP90]

Originally posted by: dclive
The System portion of the event log has no other information at the time of the monitor powering off? No memory dump files in c:\windows\memory.dmp (file)? No minidumps in c:\windows\minidumps (folder) that correspond with the time of these problems?

The only other thing in the event viewer is...

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Windows saved user YOUR-7BF86FFC89\Chris registry while an application or service was still using the registry during log off. The memory used by the user's registry has not been freed. The registry will be unloaded when it is no longer in use.

This is often caused by services running as a user account, try configuring the services to run in either the LocalService or NetworkService account.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at

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[Slikkster]

Does this happen with any other game? You said you can't play "games" but you only mention one particular game. This is important, so please don't generalize if it's not true. If it's just this game, please claify it. If it's others, be specific.

If you want to get rid of the mrtrate error and you still have quicken, uncheck the "automatically update in the background" or some similar phrase.

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: FNP90

Originally posted by: dclive
The System portion of the event log has no other information at the time of the monitor powering off? No memory dump files in c:\windows\memory.dmp (file)? No minidumps in c:\windows\minidumps (folder) that correspond with the time of these problems?

The only other thing in the event viewer is...

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Windows saved user YOUR-7BF86FFC89\Chris registry while an application or service was still using the registry during log off. The memory used by the user's registry has not been freed. The registry will be unloaded when it is no longer in use.

This is often caused by services running as a user account, try configuring the services to run in either the LocalService or NetworkService account.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at

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& those files / folders do not exist?

 

[FNP90]

Originally posted by: Slikkster
Does this happen with any other game? You said you can't play "games" but you only mention one particular game. This is important, so please don't generalize if it's not true. If it's just this game, please claify it. If it's others, be specific.

If you want to get rid of the mrtrate error and you still have quicken, uncheck the "automatically update in the background" or some similar phrase.

I should have been more clear that I was just using operation flashpoint to test since I could always count on it to crash at the same time every time. It was crashing Ghost Recon and Rainbow six 3 too. I have been messing around trying to fix so many things on here that I somehow fixed the crashing. I played operation flashpoint for about a half an hour and it ran fine. I'm gonna have to take a break from this computer before my head explodes! Thanks for everyones help, who knows how long it would have taken me to fix this on my own.