sound card/drivers causing svchost.exe to die ?

[2something]

Would be most grateful if anyone has any ideas on this one.

Takes 1 & 2
Start computer, all looks good
msn messenger logs in, finds a new email, the messenger notification box starts to appear then stutters, usually a sound is played at this point, but now nothing happens and svcshost.exe dies most ungraciously after a minute or two. Also some random sounds are played that don't usually play. From here the only thing I can do is hard reboot.

Take 3
Turn off my router so msn messenger won't log in and won't give off a sound -> computer seems o.k
Go to the volume control and get an error that there are no audio devices
go and check "sounds and audio devices" in the control panel and there are indeed no longer any audio devices
computer seems o.k just no sound ...
Go through System - hardware and all looks fine for all audio hardware and drivers
thoroughly confused at this point ...

Hardware is a Dell xps M1710 with what looks like Sigmatel audio stuff.

Anyone else had any similar issues or any random ideas. Should I just try and uninstall and reinstall the audio drivers or could it be some hardware or even memory problem ?

[shocker-z]

This is caused by a windows update after IE7 has been installed (even altho i have had this without IE7) I have created a batch file to resolve this issue see link below


[url]www.ukchat.ws/stuff/svchostfix.zip[/url]


Just run the batch file within the zip file, then after it has restarted your PC make sure that you run the automatic updates from the update page launched after the restart.

After this it should has resolved the issue.. If this doesn't work then right click my computer and click on properties > click Automatic Updates > select turn off automatic updates > restart the PC > goto the windows updates site and install them

The updates site is alot slower than normal but just give it time.


Cause: This is cause by automatic updates service crashing as it crashes svchost which also crashes services like computer browser, server, workstation and almost everything to do with networking.





Regards
Liam

[2something]

Thanks a lot for that Liam, all I found on google was virus related info - I will have to search harder next time!