Expert advice needed, Please

I'm getting frequent crashing on startup (computer just powers down,
then I have to load safe mode at next boot). The temporary "cure" I've
found is deleting/reloading my network drivers. I'm getting tired of
doing this on a frequent basis. Any ideas, rays of hope, whatever ? I
was just now in safe-mode (on purpose) checking something ( I didn't
change anything) and when I rebooted it crashed again...

Help!!!


Rick

Something that might be (but probably isn't) relevant:
I have a persistent (hidden) task mprexe.exe : according to Google it
allows for multiple networking protocols/devices. I have one (1)
protocol (tcp/ip) installed and one (1) network card (Macronix).
Normally I would just put it down to bloatware, but the crashing-on-boot
is pissing me off too much, especially since reinstalling drivers
reinstalls MS Network client and I forget to take it out before I reboot
then have to reboot again to get rid of it.

DirectPlay has a number of registry entries which mention IPX as well as
tcpip and modem play, would this have any effect ?

Rick <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<NJMPb.65711$(E-Mail Removed) able.rogers.com>...

> Something that might be (but probably isn't) relevant:
> I have a persistent (hidden) task mprexe.exe : according to Google it
> allows for multiple networking protocols/devices. I have one (1)
> protocol (tcp/ip) installed and one (1) network card (Macronix).
> Normally I would just put it down to bloatware, but the crashing-on-boot
> is pissing me off too much, especially since reinstalling drivers
> reinstalls MS Network client and I forget to take it out before I reboot
> then have to reboot again to get rid of it.
>
> DirectPlay has a number of registry entries which mention IPX as well as
> tcpip and modem play, would this have any effect ?

Rick,
Maybe MPREXE is the problem. Please read about it here:
1. http://www.answersthatwork.com/Taskl...tasklist_m.htm
(Edit - Find ... to find the exact spot)
2. http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.p...ount=100&type=
HTH,

Noam

Noam Avnery wrote:

> Rick <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<NJMPb.65711$(E-Mail Removed) able.rogers.com>...
>
>
>>Something that might be (but probably isn't) relevant:
>>I have a persistent (hidden) task mprexe.exe : according to Google it
>>allows for multiple networking protocols/devices. I have one (1)
>>protocol (tcp/ip) installed and one (1) network card (Macronix).
>>Normally I would just put it down to bloatware, but the crashing-on-boot
>>is pissing me off too much, especially since reinstalling drivers
>>reinstalls MS Network client and I forget to take it out before I reboot
>>then have to reboot again to get rid of it.
>>
>>DirectPlay has a number of registry entries which mention IPX as well as
>>tcpip and modem play, would this have any effect ?
>
>
> Rick,
> Maybe MPREXE is the problem. Please read about it here:
> 1. http://www.answersthatwork.com/Taskl...tasklist_m.htm
> (Edit - Find ... to find the exact spot)

Um, yes that url pretty well states what I originally did : mprexe.exe
is for handling multiple protocols/adapters.

> 2. http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.p...ount=100&type=

Not a virus: the OS is a couple days old fresh install and the file
compare is the same as the installation CD, and AVG says "OK".

> HTH,
>
> Noam

Any other ideas ? ... do you have it running on your machine as a hidden
process (if you only have 1 protocol/adapter that is)

thanks for taking the time

Rick