Blank Event Viewer

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Hi all. I am having an issue with one of my Win2K servers
not displaying the contents of the event logs. I can view
the logs from another server, but not the actual server
the logs reside on. Has anyone ever had this occure? When
I view the Applications log of the server in question from
another server, I only see one error. It is an Event ID 7.
WIN32SL Services. The message states that Win32sl.mif does
not exist. Could this be causing my problem? I have done a
search through the MS Knowledgebase and came up with
nothing.

Any help that can be given is greatly appreciated.

Brian
 
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Brian said:
Hi all. I am having an issue with one of my Win2K servers
not displaying the contents of the event logs. I can view
the logs from another server, but not the actual server
the logs reside on. Has anyone ever had this occure? When
I view the Applications log of the server in question from
another server, I only see one error. It is an Event ID 7.
WIN32SL Services. The message states that Win32sl.mif does
not exist. Could this be causing my problem? I have done a
search through the MS Knowledgebase and came up with
nothing.

Any help that can be given is greatly appreciated.

Brian


try

Start
Run
type
services.msc
click OK

<Services window opens>

navigate to Event Log
check that the service is running.
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also try

Start
Run
type
eventvwr.msc

<event viewer opens>
View option in menu
ensure All Records has a black dot next to it.
 
Check the size of the files, and if they show to have content, you probably have
corrupted files.
If so, you will need to rebuild them.
Go to Services and disable Event log
Do a search for *.evt, and delete sysevent.evt, secevent.evt, and appevent.evt or
add.old to the end.
They are located %SystemRoot%\Winnt\System32\config\<file>.evt
Reboot and the new files will be generated.
If you renamed instead of deleting, search for *.old and nukem.
Go back to Services and restart Event log and set to Automatic.

You should be good to go.

There have been too many with this problem for it to be a coincidence. It's an
infection, hack, or one of the hotpatches causing it.

good computing,
don
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Hi all. I am having an issue with one of my Win2K servers
not displaying the contents of the event logs. I can view
the logs from another server, but not the actual server
the logs reside on. Has anyone ever had this occure? When
I view the Applications log of the server in question from
another server, I only see one error. It is an Event ID 7.
WIN32SL Services. The message states that Win32sl.mif does
not exist. Could this be causing my problem? I have done a
search through the MS Knowledgebase and came up with
nothing.

Any help that can be given is greatly appreciated.

Brian
 
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