by orepsam » March 16th, 2012, 9:03 am
Thanks askey
I will try wireless and usb when I go home tonight.
I tried to shorten this post, here is my original. As you see already chkdisk and all OK:
"General
I'm not sure quite what started this Generic Host… message "GHP".
I'm in the process of putting some programmes on the machine from original software. Our ageing laptop (ThinkPad T40) as opposed to our desktop is destined to be our mobile communicator, when we 4 X 4 or 'swallow' between here and Europe.
The T40 is loaded with XP pro SP3 while the desktop has the home edition. I have a Toshiba Satellite (even older—and quite slow) on which I have successfully loaded the required programmes, and it performs (apart from speed) the way I expect the T40 to work. The desktop also has the programmes and everything works fine there. All systems have adequate memory and disk space for their intended use.
The T40 system used to be stable—basically used by my wife as a simple communicator—remote internet e-mail, Skype and occasionally Word for attaching to e-mail. The connection was via a wireless modem (on board) offered by our hotel.
I now 'connect' via a USB ADSL network adaptor (built in), the Mweb supplied modem "Billion?" allows for a faster cable connection (fast wire?), which has an outlet plug that is different to the normal USB one—I use this output on my desktop, as the laptops are not equipped with a compatible port.
I have done my best to recover the issue, including several attempts to restore until hard drive had no more space—+-2%. I disabled auto restore which recovered > 60% of the space; a chk disc and defrag followed, and everything looked great but still the GHP returned.
Internet sites know about the problem, but no meaningful solution is offered, even by MS.
Symptoms
1. A few, up to 15 mins after bootup I get the GHP; the event viewer indicates a problem with svchost.exe—see the screen-prints below.
2. If I choose the 'send the error report' option it goes off, but the machine then becomes inoperable (not frozen completely), but it won't respond to a Ctr/Alt/Delete, other than to show the first popup. However Task manager does not come up but if logoff is selected it responds, plays the shutdown music but does not shut down—this has to be done manually.
It reboots normally, but the onboard ADSL network adaptor becomes disabled and requires the driver to be installed—either through device manager, or the Found New Hardware Wizard.
3. If, on the other hand, I elect Debug, the machine lives on more or less normal but sound card deactivates yet device manager does not show a problem. Also, if you remove something from USB e.g. internet connection or flash drive, it won't accept it back, nor recognise a new addition. The machine slows down quite a bit.
The machine does however permit my GPS to be removed and plugged in, and the map software recognises it immediately but does not notify 'found new hardware'. Not being a typical storage device, it does not show on Explorer.
4. On normal shutdown, it reboots back to 'normal' and the problem of the ADSL mentioned in 2 & 3 does not recur until GHP arrives, which is inevitable.
5. Skype 5.1 is resident, but won't upgrade from the Help "check for later versions",
nor from a downloaded setup file—while running it gives "problems connecting to server" however there was still a connection. I had similar hiccoughs with my desktop that cleared fairly soon and 5.1.8 was eventually installed from a downloaded setup..
6. CC cleaner is regularly used—the anti-virus is Eset NOD (old version).