At least one service or driver failed during system startup.

[zeveck]

Is it common to get the error:

At least one service or driver failed during system startup. Use Event Viewer to examine the event log for details.

And then have NOTHING show up in Event Viewer!??! This keeps happening on a number of systems I have, and there are no indications of ANYTHING, not even warnings, in Event Viewer.

Thoughts? Comments?

 

[Beowulf005]

Couple of things to look at

Clear all the contents of the Event Logs. Restart the computer and see if anything appears.

Check the running services and group them by Auto. Look to see if any are not "Started".

Check all the startup programs and make sure you have no virus, spyware, adware, etc..

GL
Brian

 

[itsp1965]

I have had this happen to me in the past with a service that was reliant on another to start beforehand. Although the service would start eventually, you would get this error in passing.

 

[jpm121]

I've seen this before on HP Proliant servers with dual ethernet ports, when only one of them is plugged into a switch and the other is empty. It's trying to start a failover service, can't remember the name, and apparently the driver wasn't written properly to write to the event log.

 

[schtek]

ok on running services check your passwords have not been changed and they cannot log on to start the service sophos killed me for long time lol

"Ask not what your computer network can do for you - ask what you can do to the computer network to give you a quiet moment ."

 

[asktheman]

Have you installed veritas backup exec?

if yes...

that will happen after installing veritas backup as it tried to take over the network load balanceing service. there is a MS knowledge base on this but it refers to a third party service and not veritas itself.

You can input a registry setting to stop this but you will have to reverse this if you want to use load balancing.

sorry can't remember the KB number.