Hello,
I've come to these fine forums in utter desperation. I have no idea what is going on and would gladly except any advice anyone might provide.
Starting around Saturday night a very odd thing began happening. I had left my computer running and when I came back I couldn't view any webpages and I was disconnected from AIM. I am forced to use dial-up due to my location. When I went to bring up the status of the connection from the task bar, it would flash up and disappear. I tried right-clicking and all the options it gave from the task bar, none would work. I couldn't reconnect to the internet.
I was forced to restart my computer in order to get back online.
A few hours after I reconnected, it occured again. I messed around with various ideas, including a different phoneline and ISP connection. When it was still happening a day later I decided to format.
After formatting, I now receive an error message when it occurs which looks like this:
Generic Host Process for Win32 Services has encountered a problem and needs to close
Checking the event long, this is the error I receive:
Faulting application svchost.exe, version 5.1.2600.2180, faulting module netapi32.dll, version 5.1.2600.2180, fault address 0x0000a3c0.
Up to this point, it had been three years since I've had to reinstall Windows and that wasn't even the solution. I have no idea why this has suddenly started happening. My computer was fine and then out of no where its getting errors and destroying my internet connection.
Does anyone know or have any ideas what could be causing this?
what is netapi32.dll for? and which svchost.exe is dying? Your help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you for your time and any ideas you can provide
Note: During the time it took me to write this, I've received the error again. Having to restart my computer before I could even get this post up.
I've come to these fine forums in utter desperation. I have no idea what is going on and would gladly except any advice anyone might provide.
Starting around Saturday night a very odd thing began happening. I had left my computer running and when I came back I couldn't view any webpages and I was disconnected from AIM. I am forced to use dial-up due to my location. When I went to bring up the status of the connection from the task bar, it would flash up and disappear. I tried right-clicking and all the options it gave from the task bar, none would work. I couldn't reconnect to the internet.
I was forced to restart my computer in order to get back online.
A few hours after I reconnected, it occured again. I messed around with various ideas, including a different phoneline and ISP connection. When it was still happening a day later I decided to format.
After formatting, I now receive an error message when it occurs which looks like this:
Generic Host Process for Win32 Services has encountered a problem and needs to close
Checking the event long, this is the error I receive:
Faulting application svchost.exe, version 5.1.2600.2180, faulting module netapi32.dll, version 5.1.2600.2180, fault address 0x0000a3c0.
Up to this point, it had been three years since I've had to reinstall Windows and that wasn't even the solution. I have no idea why this has suddenly started happening. My computer was fine and then out of no where its getting errors and destroying my internet connection.
Does anyone know or have any ideas what could be causing this?
what is netapi32.dll for? and which svchost.exe is dying? Your help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you for your time and any ideas you can provide
Note: During the time it took me to write this, I've received the error again. Having to restart my computer before I could even get this post up.