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The 333 Event ID In The Application Event Log
I am writing this because I had a server doing this for a very long time before I pinned down the cause. This will include a lot of what I found on the internet and my own personal fix that worked for me.
Example Event:
Event Source: Application Popup
Event Category: None
Event ID: 333
Date: 3/23/2009
Time: 2:44:53 PM
User: N/A
Computer: SERVER1
Description:
An I/O operation initiated by the Registry failed unrecoverably. The Registry could not read in, or write out, or flush, one of the files that contain the system’s image of the Registry.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 00 00 00 00 01 00 6c 00 ……l.
0008: 00 00 00 00 4d 01 00 c0 ….M..À
0010: 00 00 00 00 4d 01 00 c0 ….M..À
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ……..
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ……..
Symptoms: Every third of a second or so there was an event id 333 error logged in the application event log on the server. This would start after the server has been up for a few hours to days and will stop for a period after the server was rebooted. The error occurred so often I was reaching 30,000 instances of the error in 24 hours. About 36 hours after the event started occurring no one was able to login active directory, and to get the server back up it required a manual hard reboot.