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The hell is wrong with this DEMON COMPUTER
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My ma's old computer went tits up during tax season this year, and as she's an accountant she needed a replacement immediately, so she bought a Lenovo something or other. Apparently, Best Buy included some sort of code demons as a free incentive, because the damn thing will not run her check-printing software. I can install it just fine, but upon opening it instantly shits the bed and gives me the following message:
There is also a second window with the following information:
Apparently this is happening in another tax program, and when Chrome loads (although I couldn't replicate that one, and it's working fine). I've done a bit of Google searching and tried some of the solutions that I could find, but none of them have availed a desired result. Any idear what this stems from?
Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: VCheck.exe Application Version: 11.0.10.9 Application Timestamp: 2a425e19 Fault Module Name: KERNELBASE.dll Fault Module Version: 6.1.7601.17932 Fault Module Timestamp: 50327672 Exception Code: 0eedfade Exception Offset: 0000c41f OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3 Locale ID: 1033 Additional Information 1: fb1e Additional Information 2: fb1efae44783b8dcb1d2ed159c7a00bf Additional Information 3: e6f2 Additional Information 4: e6f2f645cc6f2766035b0f3d4d9f2b19
There is also a second window with the following information:
Exception 'EOleSysError' in module VCheck.exe at 007C201 Error accessing the OLE registry Source file: UNKNOWN, Line UNKNOWN Call stack: :0047D201 [VCheck.exe] Comobj.OleError :00867552 [VCheck.exe] Comserv.TComServer.UpdateRegistry :008673EA [VCheck.exe] Comserv.TComServer.Initialize :008675DA [VCheck.exe] Comserv.InitComServer :756F33AA [kernel32.dll] :776B9EF2 [ntdll.dll] :776B9EC5 [ntdll.dll] Registers: EAX = 00000000 CS = 0023 EIP = 00404686 Flags = 00000206 EBX = 00000000 SS = 002B ESP = 0018F8AC EBP = 0018F8CC ECX = 00000000 DS = 002B ESI = 00000000 FS = 0053 EDX = 00000000 ES = 002B EDI = 00000000 GS = 002B Code at CS:EIP 8B 5C 24 04 81 3B DE FA ED 0E 8B 53 14 8B 43 18 Stack: 776DB459 0018F994 0018FF7C 0018F9E4 0018F968 0018FEFC 02E44B44 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 776B9EC5 02E44B05 02E6D2FC 02E6CE0B 02E6D214 00038E0B
Apparently this is happening in another tax program, and when Chrome loads (although I couldn't replicate that one, and it's working fine). I've done a bit of Google searching and tried some of the solutions that I could find, but none of them have availed a desired result. Any idear what this stems from?
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Error accessing the OLE registry"
Running it as admin can fix the problem. Alternatively, you'll want to reinstall VersaCheck secure (which is what VCheck.exe is).
I've reinstalled VersaCheck roughly five times by now, but the problem persists. I've even ran the installation program as an administrator and/or WinXP compatibility, again with no effect.
This really is outside of my area of expertise, but I idiotically volunteered to take a look. There's this Lenovo restore disk that I could use to nuke it from orbit, but who knows... the Geek Squad apparently removed all of the bloatware from the machine when she purchased it, could they have fucked the registry in the process?
In fact, as this is probably ancient Tax software, it might simply be a pathing issue. Some software is hard coded to look in the "Program Files" folder. If it (properly) installs into "Program Files (x86)" strange things can happen. Although the normal "Program Files" is typically reserved for 64-bit software nothing should prevent you from installing 32-bit code there.
I'm assuming that you already found the page "http://www.versacheck.com/web/support/article.aspx?id=844" and applied those fixes?
It's also possible that it really is a registry permissions issue. Have you located the involved key? In Regedit, right-click the key, select "Permissions", and make sure that at least Administrator has full access. You might want to add All Users just to make sure.
EDIT: You might want to try and make an additional administrator user account and try again. Note that I've found some crashes can be the result of a corrupt user profile. See: "http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-performance/programs-crash-error-fault-module-kernelbasedll/9fe5d2e7-79d0-42c1-b8dc-51ed8d70f749" for details.
Essentially, Win7 is telling me that the driver isn't installed, but when I run the installation program Realtek says that it can't find the associated hardware (and "if Deep Sleep Mode is enabled Please Plug the Cable"). Additionally, the setup program acts as if the driver is already installed, as it only gives me an option to Repair or Remove.
I know that the network is fine up until the wireless router, at least, as I'm posting this via said wireless. What do you think, is there something I'm missing or should I just leave it to the Geek Squad?
e: Thanks for the link about corrupt user profiles, Great Scott. I'd tried everything else, but I'll keep that one in mind if the demons return.
Realtek makes dozens of chips that are slightly incompatible with different driver packages. You might have to check on the computer's motherboard and actually look for the (tiny and square - think pinky-fingernail) chip, which will have arcane markings. It's usually near the rear/central area of the motherboard, but sometimes toward the rear/bottom.
Barring that, could you tell us what Windows thinks the chip is in Device Manager? An example name is "Realtek RTL8168D/8111D Family".
EDIT: Sorry for not suggesting the obvious - since this is a major manufacturer PC, did you check the website for the latest Win7 supported driver? Also, what model is this PC? I could try and help find the right driver package using that.
I'd suggest going to the Dell/HP/Whatever website first, unless the PC doesn't officially support Window 7.
That's about all I've got... I know it ain't much, and I don't mind giving up on this thing anyway. But if anyone has an idear, I'm open to it.
Yes.
But apparently you've already reinstalled, so no worries there.
Another thing to suggest if this kind of thing starts cropping up again, is download ProcMon from the SysInternals site. Open it up, set a filter to just watch actions from Vcheck.exe (or whatever is giving you fits at the time) and then start logging, run your program til it crashes, stop logging. It's going to give you a ton of stuff in that time, because it tracks basically every file and registry access made while logging, but you can right-click on events that you aren't interested in (basically things where the status says success and such) and tell it to ignore that type and it will clickly narrow down your results until you can see where it's failing.
As for your driver issue, I'd definitely recommend going to the Lenovo site and pulling up the driver list for the model PC she's got. They could have just put in the wrong one on the recovery partition, or may have been a bad driver that the site has update since then. Most OEMs are pretty good about having the drivers on the site accurate at least.
Is it a laptop or a desktop. If it's a desktop you could just pick up a basic NIC for like 10 bucks.
Or hell, if you know any Sysadmins, or live near a university or other large company, the people in IT there might have spares lying around that were stripped from old PCs and have little use now since pretty much every mobo comes with an onboard NIC. They might try to send you home with a whole box if you aren't careful.
It's not even a Realtek device, it's Intel.