Computer freezes after start up

Hi,

 

Shortly after booting up and after the desktop appears my PC occasionaly freezes along with the timer icon. I have to force restart a couple of times before the pc becomes usable.

 

I think it is either one or two things ESET av (which I tried once) or the OS/HDD.

 

• I've ran chkdsk along with other 3rd party HD drive checks
• Tried system restore
• Run virus/malware scans - nothing
• SFC /Scannow
• Can't see any exclamations in device manager
• The computer will always boot up in safe mode with no trouble at all.

 

However there have been a number of errors listed in Event Viewer:

The ESET Service service hung on starting

* The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly.

* This appears after a forced restart

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The DNS Client service depends on the NetIO Legacy TDI Support Driver service which failed to start because of the following error:
A device attached to the system is not functioning.

The TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper service depends on the Ancillary Function Driver for Winsock service which failed to start because of the following error:
A device attached to the system is not functioning.

Audit events have been dropped by the transport.  0

Has anyone any suggestions before I reimage the system or buy a new HDD please?

 

I hope someone can help. Thanks in advance

Any dumps in c:\windows\minidump? If so zip them up then upload and attach here.

Hi Ztruker, as always thanks for the reply.

 

No mini dump folder I'm afraid. In the meantime I have uninstalled & reinstalled NOD with a thorough clean of its components in between.

 

• In safe mode: disabled the Eset service in Windows' service manager
• Uninstalled Nod
• Tried to find and delete Nod's ehdrv driver using device manager - it wasn’t there

 

Reinstalled and my pc, fingers crossed, seems to be working again.

Use the ESET uninstaller - http://kb.eset.com/esetkb/index?page=content&id=SOLN146

It's doing that thing again.

Hi jcgriff2,

Thanks for the suggestion, that's what I used in the second step.

 

ztruker - Do I need to turn on error dumping in the BIOS?

Should be enabled by default, unless you turned it off somehow.

The problem(s) you see may not be generating a dump.

Mmm ok. I've reported this problem over on the nod forums so we shall see what they come up with.