Hi there! Does anyone have any idea what causes these error messages I got in event viewer?? Thanks!
Douglas
Heres a summary!
Douglas
BOOTA error means that at that time you tried to scan the floopy (A:) and the boot sector could not be localizes (the diskette is not in the drive, the floopy is not formatted…). Try to clean the event logger, put a floppy in the drive and scan… Probably the error won’t appear again.
Well I did not try scanning anything on my floppy drive. I did however create a floppy drive with some Intel drivers on it for setting up a RAID array. I bet the resident scanner tried scanning the floppy during this time maybe?
Douglas
Maybe…
You could asked for scanning ‘My Computer’ and then floppy will be included. 
Ok, I found out what causes these error messages. Its when I format a floppy. I just formatted a floppy to load the latest bios file for my mobo, and then went right in to event viewer. There were the error messages again. Why does this happen?
Douglas
Just a guess: in the Standard Shield settings, did you block the ‘format’ operation on tab ‘Blocker’?
Nope, nothing is checked under blocked operations.
Douglas
Tipton, sorry I’m empty… I cannot figure out what is happening…
For me, BOOTA was always related to floppies:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=3288;start=msg23580#msg23580
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=3288;start=msg23575#msg23575
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=3039;start=msg23547#msg23547
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=2137;start=msg14769#msg14769
Well my error messages only occur when I am using my floppy drive. Weather I am formatting a floppy, or using for other things. Doesn’t happen when I use my ghost boot floppy though to make and restore images.
Douglas