DCOM errors making my pc crash?

[philmeehan]

Recently my pc has been unexplainedly crashing. It just freezes without warning, and without any pattern. Sometimes it can run for days without problems, and then it'll crash. Doesn't matter if I'm running loads of apps or my pc is idle. I could be just moving my mouse along the creen, and all of a sudden, the mouse feezes, the keyboard won't respond, and I have to reset my computer. It even crashed this morning whilst burning a dvd, and the dvd actually stopped burning. I have scanned my system with Macafee, ad-aware, spy-bot and The Cleaner (all up to date), and nothing was found.

I was just looking through the event viewer, and I have a lot of DCOM errors, something to do with messenger, it could not find the file specified, so it was unable to create a DCOM server apparently. This is most likely because I uninstalled Windows messenger and replaced it with msn. Could this be causing my pc to crash? I also think that my dvd burner is on it's way out, it won't recognise some discs, crashes when I burn at 4x etc. Could this have something to do with it?

[Neo]

Has your comp been infected with the blaster worm? Have you patched windows?

[BlackDiamondJr]

I doubt that your aging DVD burner has anything to do with the problem. Your DVD burner problem sounds more like it is ASPI related.
You might want to take the EVENTID error code listed in Event Viewer and poke around at www.eventid.net for more detailed information pertaining to that generated code.
My guess would be that the error belongs to MSN Messenger as this is quite common. Try uninstalling MSN Messenger and see if the problem still persists.

[philmeehan]

I'll try uninstalling messenger, see if it makes any difference.

[philmeehan]

Also, my ASPI layer is up to date, I updated it just last week becuase I thought the same thing initially.

[PH/\T B,5TARD]

Came across this http://www.grc.com/dcom/