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    Favor to ask XPS 1330 owners

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by kinetic758, Jul 31, 2008.

  1. kinetic758

    kinetic758 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Can any 1330 owners run sfc /scannow?:

    1. Type "cmd" in the search bar, Run As Administrator
    2. Type "sfc /scannow" in the command prompt.
    3. Post your results in this thread.

    After at least 10 clean installations, I've been experiencing a corrupt and unrepairable autochk.exe file, most likely ever since I received the laptop (last June). I was wondering if it was inherent to the 1330 model (drivers, etc.). Thanks in advance.
     
    kinetic758, Jul 31, 2008
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    paper_wastage Beat this 7x7x7 Cube

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    trying now.... im on my 2nd vista clean installation

    EDIT: no problems

    Verification 100% Complete
    Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations


    maybe its a hard drive dying problem?
     
    paper_wastage, Jul 31, 2008
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    akg7091 Notebook Consultant

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    No errors on mine :)
    I am not using the dell installation with all the bloatware though
     
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  4. kinetic758

    kinetic758 Notebook Enthusiast

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    @paper_wastage: are you using Dell's Vista disc for the clean installation? Ran a test on the hard drive/memory and found no problems.
     
    kinetic758, Jul 31, 2008
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    paper_wastage Beat this 7x7x7 Cube

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    i'm using a friend's Vista x64 disc, installed home premium, activated with key on laptop base
     
    paper_wastage, Jul 31, 2008
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    xboxgon Notebook Guru

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    this is what i got

    Beginning verification phase of system scan.
    Verification 100% complete.
    Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of th
    em.
    Details are included in the CBS.Log windir\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. For example
    C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log

    The system file repair changes will take effect after the next reboot.
     
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  7. kinetic758

    kinetic758 Notebook Enthusiast

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    xboxgon: did you check in the CBS.log file to see which files were corrupt and unrepairable?
     
    kinetic758, Jul 31, 2008
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    xboxgon Notebook Guru

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    lol that file has a lot of stuff in it and i cant comprehend it :O
     
    xboxgon, Jul 31, 2008
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    kinetic758 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yeah, it contains the logs of all past scans. What you can do is right click on the CBS.log file and drag/copy it to your desktop. Open it up and ctrl-F to search for "cannot repair". Jump to near the end where the time stamp is around the same time you ran scannow. There you should see which files it could not repair.
     
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    johnny13oi Notebook Evangelist

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    Mine has problems as well. Wish someone could help interpret what is wrong.

    I searched through the file for cannot repair and they are all about the Windows Sidebar and Windows Printing. Wonder how to fix this.
     
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    xboxgon Notebook Guru

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    it says cannot repair, gmreadme.txt and license.rtf is that what u are looking for?
     
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    Mine reports no problems.
     
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    @xboxgon: I was looking to see if others were experiencing a constantly corrupted autochk.exe file.

    @johnny13oi: If you do not use the windows sidebar, I probably wouldn't worry about it. However, you can try and repair those files by taking ownership of them and replacing them with fresh copies from your Vista CD as documented here:

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929833

    My problem stems from the fact that the file always gets corrupted, regardless of a fresh install or a fresh copy of the file.
     
    kinetic758, Jul 31, 2008
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