W2K very slow to start: stops badly too...

Since I installed a mass of updates my W2K takes ages to get started. When I try to uninstall the different updates, I get dire warnings that it will stop a host of programs from working properly if I do... Should I take the risk.
When I switch off I get a blue screen with 0x0000009F (0x00000002, 0x81842520,0x81846030,0x00000000
DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE
This started before I did the updates.

Any ideas gratefully accepted
Keith

 

First things first. Take care of the Stop 0x0000009F or DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE first and see how things work after that.

 

Stopping W2K

Many thanks for getting back to me. I've been on to the site you recommend - today I'm going to try to understand what it says - bit by bit...
It looks horrendous!
Are there any .log files (for instance) in which I might be able to find out what is really causing the problem of my switch off error message. Or a tool I could download which constructs an errors file?
Or a step by step switch off procedure which would show at what point the error is detected?

As I say in my profile, I'm an "old hand" but that old hand is getting a bit shaky! When I'd got Digital DCL all sussed out and working perfectly in my univ computer lab back in the 80's, along came W 3.11... then when that was all working perfectly, W95 came and spoiled it all... Having mastered W95 I had to come to grips with NT4... followed by W98, ME, XP and now W2k... I recognise the fact that it is really a marvelous tool - maybe I'm just getting old...
Thanks again
Keith

 

Oh dear...

... I just read what you said in red about throwing away Emails...
I just sent a long letter to thank you for your help - I identified the offending driver and disabled it.
In the old days when net space was rare, we always tended to send thank you letters separately so as not to clutter the list...
Sorry about that
Thanks again
Keith

 

keithb - saw your post and it was fine. Still, better to post it here so anyone reading this thread later will know there was closure.

I put the piece about no email in because some folks decide they'd rather work one-on-one with anyone who offers suggestions and that really messes up threads. Once I figure out that has happened, the email does go directly to the deleted folder.

No problems with posting it here either. Plenty of server space and enough bandwidth to keep things running smoothly. Usually.

 

OK

Glad you got both thank-you letters.
Any tips on the slow starting problem?
I'm fairly sure it started with the massive download of Windows updates.
Keith

 

You do need to find out exactly which update did the nasty to your PC. And no way I know of except to remove all and then put them back one at a time with some testing after each to see if system performance is affected.

Maybe first you should empty your event logs, reboot, play around a few minutes then check for errors/warnings that may bear on the issue.

I'm assuming you have cleaned out temp files, temporary internet files, recycle bin and from a DOS window, run chkdsk /r followed by a defrag after the PC starts back up. If not, you should.

When (if) you need to remove your updates (mostly security hotfixes probably) it might be safer to download each hotfix but not install then disconnect from the internet before removing the updates.

As to the 'old' part you posted, probably not the issue. If you only started with computers in the 80s you either came to them late in life or else you are lots younger than a few of us on here. First 'computing' for me was Fortran IV I wrote and then punched into hard cards and fed thru a card reader. Early '60s at Mississippi State if my memory isn't going.

 

I had been bracing myself

to do that...
What "event logs" should I clean out?
I have done the cleanouts you suggest - first reaction.
Good idea to download the updates and put them to one side before getting rid of the installed ones.
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Indeed I did start punching cards in Cambridge (England) in the late sixties ('67) next to a very big sorting machine. I was however a historian at the time trying to work out how we could put multi choice exams on to computers. It never worked... What I described is rather my "return" to computing with the very first "personal computers" available in England - the little Sinclairs...
Ending up teaching computing or rather the pedagocical uses of Internet from '85 on. I'm now 63 and having some difficulty with my new W2000 machine.
A great e-friend of mine in the late '80s was head of history at Mississippi State. Real pioneers in Internet based documentary information.
All the best
Keith