question about the windows event viewer

is it normal to see red x's and errors in the event viewer even though there is nothing wrong with the computer?

 

I guess, Yes!!!!!! I had a couple of them.. one being something to do with the error dump or whatever.. saying there is no space for that crash dump thing.. but my comp was as good as ever.. just to clear it up though, another member suggested me to set it to minidump, and the error was gone.. but system performance has been the same before, during, after... so there.. just to give you an example... but u may want to google the error just to make sure it isn't something building up....

 

If you are running XP, this might help. It is very similar in Vista, only there are a lot more logs.

 

I say No!!!!....according to what the error pertains to, it might not be a serious issue for you if the error is pertaining to something that you know you are not using or concerned about. But IMO it's never good when there are Red Xs in event viewer. That means it's a serious error, but like I said if the error doesn't affect or concern your normal use of the computer system then I guess you're fine.

 

My pc accumulates lots of errors in diagnostics-performance.

 

It is pretty normal to have "red x's". I get one about a parallel port on every startup because there are no devices. Well, duh!

 

Ok well in cases like that, you know you can "ignore" that error. This is why I said it's really according to what the error is about and pertaining to. I guess, you the "user" will have to decide if it's normal or not.

 

As an end user you're perceiving nothing wrong with the computer but the event viewer doesn't lie.

As was previously mentioned, continue working with your computer normally and refer to the event viewer as a diagnostic tool. Don't use it as a list of problems to be addressed as you'll be in front of your PC all day, not to forget you'll probably break something

 

If you are having a lot of issues then I would look into them. However, if your computer is operating normally I would not worry about it. I clear mine out from time to time so that if I do experience any issues, I don't have thousands of entries to browse through.

 

I look at the event viewer when I have had a problem, to gather diagnostic information. I also look now and again just to see what it thinks is going on. In the latter case I usually just look and think "how utterly uninteresting".

 

Oh yeah, I have something similar to this too...... lol... first since I dont know much about these things, I was like kinda worried.. then looked around, searched and read in more detail in the event viewer and figured out there was no devices or something similar.. I was like, wth!! anyway..

 

besides the parallel port error i am also having two errors whenever i startup. i have attached both of the errors in more detail. anyone know if these two are normal

 

Don't worry about the kerberos error.

 

thanks what is the kerberos error though. anybody know the second error with WMI

 

WMI Explained

I did see something about Mass Effect trying to update using Windows Update. Any possibility you play that?

 

nah i don't have mass effect installed

 

Seemed like a red herring to me, too.