Need help to find issues in a CBS.log file

WCarp

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I'm having a significant system file corruption issue. Every few days, when I run sfc /scannow, it finds corruption and makes a CBS.log file that a person can refer to. If sfc can't fix it, then I run the dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth command and eventually it gets fixed. In the meantime, some strange things happen with Window's operation but I don't get BSODs and other major things but the computer can hang for a while. See my related thread here: http://www.eightforums.com/drivers-...et-drivers-used-windows-8-1-a.html#post356970. A third level Microsoft Support person refuses to do anything more to resolve some issues until the file corruption issues is resolved. I have done a memory test and it found no errors. I'm having the same problem on two similarly configured computers.

So far, no one can figure out why the file corruption is occurring. It started after upgrading from Windows 8 to 8.1. I see that the ASUS Sabertooth 990FX Rev 2.0 motherboard doesn't have Windows 8.1 drivers but I am told by ASUS, that it doesn't need them.

I have attached the CBS log file so you can take a look at it and see if anything can be found to help pinpoint the cause of the file corruption. Does anyone have a suggestion on how else to find the cause of the file corruption?

Thanks.
 

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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 64 bit
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Custom Built, Two
    CPU
    AMD FX 6100, AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
    Motherboard
    ASUS Sabertooth 990FX Rev 2
    Memory
    Mushkin 8GB, 997000 PC-12800
    Graphics Card(s)
    INVIDIA Quadro 600
    Sound Card
    Onboard
    Hard Drives
    WD 1 T RE4 (x2) RAID 1, WD Velociraptor (x3) RAID 5
    PSU
    PC Power & Cooling, Silencer 500W
    Mouse
    Cirque SmartCat
    Other Info
    Did have an Adaptec 2405 RAID card but because of BSODs coming out of Sleep Mode, it was replaced with a LSI 9271-4i RAID card which resolved the issue.
It appears the latest problem concerns the Snipping Tool link file. When you check the CBS.log for SFC entries, it is much easier to use the command below you can find in one of the links on the referenced page, in an administrative command window.

findstr /c:"[SR]" %windir%\Logs\CBS\CBS.log >"%userprofile%\Desktop\sfcdetails.txt"

Use the System File Checker tool to repair missing or corrupted system files

As far as the corruption, are all the machines set up the same, such as to type and amount of memory?

Does the hard drive have plenty of free space, and are they all the same model?

My first guess would be the memory or something associated with how well it functions. My second guess would lean toward the hard drives and how they are set up and drivers being used with those.

No overclocking......?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 x64
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Home Grown
    CPU
    i7 3770K
    Motherboard
    ASUS P8Z77 -v Pro, Z87-Expert
    Memory
    16 G
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA GTX 680 Classified (2)
    Hard Drives
    Kingston SSD 240 GB
Perhaps a refresh or restore. :(
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1.1 Pro with Media Center
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Gateway
    CPU
    AMD K140 Cores 2 Threads 2 Name AMD K140 Package Socket FT1 BGA Technology 40nm
    Motherboard
    Manufacturer Gateway Model SX2110G (P0)
    Memory
    Type DDR3 Size 8192 MBytes DRAM Frequency 532.3 MHz
    Graphics Card(s)
    ATI AMD Radeon HD 7310 Graphics
    Sound Card
    AMD High Definition Audio Device Realtek High Definition Audio USB Audio Device
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Name 1950W on AMD Radeon HD 7310 Graphics Current Resolution 1366x768 pixels Work Resolution 1366x76
    Screen Resolution
    Current Resolution 1366x768 pixels Work Resolution 1366x768 pixels
    Hard Drives
    AMD K140
    Cores 2
    Threads 2
    Name AMD K140
    Package Socket FT1 BGA
    Technology 40nm
    Specification AMD E1-1200 APU with Radeon HD Graphics
    Family F
    Extended Family 14
    Model 2
    Extended Model 2
    Stepping 0
    Revision ON-C0
    Instruction
    Browser
    Opera 24.0
    Antivirus
    Avast Internet Security
I tried the command that Saltgrass mentioned to get the sfcdetails.txt file to look at. I was able to look at a much more meaningful file and interestingly, the system file corruption was due to Microsoft's own calculator and snipping tool files! Thanks!

The interesting thing is, a third level MS Support Engineer in the past, has looked at the CBS.log file, itself, and told me there was hardware corruption going on and he refused to try to go further and find out what was going on! In fact, at two different times MS has or wanted to reinstall or refresh Windows because of getting the system file corruption issue when all that was going on (at least shown in the last log file) was that the MS Calculator and especially the Snipping tool files were corrupted.

As for my RAM, I did a memtest86 check and it found no errors, as I thought it would, because of the symptoms but I thought I would check anyway. The two computers are almost exactly the same. They have plenty of hard drive space--Windows doesn't complain or warn me about a lack of space. Strange things do happen, such as programs stop responding at times, the Task Bar hide/unhide feature doesn't work right at times, and sometimes when I click on things with the mouse, it takes several clicks to get some action. Outlook 2010 does strange things, and etc. Every time, after a reboot, perhaps, and maybe sometimes after a wake up, the hard drive activity goes real high--like 100% at times but I understand that others have this same issue also.

LSI, the RAID card manufacturer has checked log files associated with their card and found nothing wrong. I also did a consistency check which tests to see if the data is the same on the two drives in a RAID 1 array and there were no errors. ASUS feels that the issues are a result of an incompatibility between their Sabertooth 990FX motherboard and the RAID card. ASUS is in the process of RMAing my two Sabertooth boards and sending me two Crosshair V Formula-Z boards. Hopefully, this will help and not make things worse. ASUS doesn't have Windows 8.1 chipset drivers and they say that the boards don't need them to work properly. I wonder if this is correct--maybe in some situations a person does need 8.1 drivers.

Again, after upgrading from Windows 8 to 8.1, almost five months ago, I started having the problems listed above. After upgrading, MS has done two refreshes, and one reinstall, I believe that is what they were called and the problem persists. In fact, a third level MS Support Engineer was wanting to do another reinstall because of the data corruption issue and other issues but I said NO! I've had enough of those. According to the third level MS Support Engineer, MS made some significant changes in 8.1. I think that MS has some bugs in their OS that needs to be addressed. Also, I would like to suggest that all manufacturers of computer related items, do so to proper specs so that every thing will work properly together so there will be a lot less hassles and frustration.

Thanks.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 64 bit
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Custom Built, Two
    CPU
    AMD FX 6100, AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
    Motherboard
    ASUS Sabertooth 990FX Rev 2
    Memory
    Mushkin 8GB, 997000 PC-12800
    Graphics Card(s)
    INVIDIA Quadro 600
    Sound Card
    Onboard
    Hard Drives
    WD 1 T RE4 (x2) RAID 1, WD Velociraptor (x3) RAID 5
    PSU
    PC Power & Cooling, Silencer 500W
    Mouse
    Cirque SmartCat
    Other Info
    Did have an Adaptec 2405 RAID card but because of BSODs coming out of Sleep Mode, it was replaced with a LSI 9271-4i RAID card which resolved the issue.
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