WMI event 12102
Antony Davison
group (which I have just discovered) in the hope that MS wmi programmers
would like to consider issuing a more meaningful message. I run on Win2k Pro
SP2, and in case anyone's interested, here's what I found.
I discovered from reports in other newsgroups that event ID 12102 is
reported in NT4 from the POP3 Connector when Dial-up Networking has problems
establishing a RAS connection. I thought maybe it's something to do with my
modem. I looked at the event log again, and found that it usually occured
immediately before I made a connection to my ISP. I have an external Ambient
56k fax modem, and don't usually switch it on when I power up the PC. When I
later switch it on to connect to the internet, the dialer says it can't find
the modem, so to cure this problem I run hardware wizard to re-detect it. Of
course it detects nothing, I press cancel, re-run the dialer and it
connects. The message appears in the event log immediately after add/remove
hardware has been run.
So there we are. I wish Win2k would deal sensibly with external devices. I
have tried before to unplug/eject it with hardware wizard, but there is
nothing at all listed. Perhaps the modem is not truly PnP, even tho' Windows
has no trouble installing it as such, and in detecting it's type and
capabilities.
"Antony Davison" <ant...@apdavison.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:e5f001c27c58$219a1eb0$3aef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA09...
> Any ideas as to what this Windows Management
> Instrumentation message in the sytem event log means? It
> occurs once in almost every login session. I have WMI, and
> WMI driver extensions startup type set to manual in
> services, so they only run when needed.
>
> Source: WMI
> Category: None
> Type:Warning
> Event ID: 12102
>
> Description:
> The registration information for the image file Unknown is
> not valid.
>
> Data bytes:
> 0000: 00 00 00 00