I getting cryptographic services failed to initialize the catalog database error.

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original title: cryptographic services

Hey

I'm having little problem with my windows 7. I getting cryptographic services failed to initialize the catalog database error.

I never ran into this error before so I'm not sure what to do about it. Wondering if anyone can help me with it? or is it just an error I can just ignore?

Log Name:      Application

Source:        Microsoft-Windows-CAPI2

Date:          4/29/2011 10:04:54 AM

Event ID:      256

Task Category: None

Level:         Error

Keywords:      Classic

User:          N/A

Computer:      Avery-PC

Description:

The Cryptographic Services service failed to initialize the Catalog Database. The error was: 1117 (0x45d) : The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.

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Event Xml:

<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">

  <System>

    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-CAPI2" Guid="{5bbca4a8-b209-48dc-a8c7-b23d3e5216fb}" EventSourceName="Microsoft-Windows-CAPI2" />

    <EventID Qualifiers="0">256</EventID>

    <Version>0</Version>

    <Level>2</Level>

    <Task>0</Task>

    <Opcode>0</Opcode>

    <Keywords>0x8080000000000000</Keywords>

    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2011-04-29T17:04:54.143160300Z" />

    <EventRecordID>2807</EventRecordID>

    <Correlation />

    <Execution ProcessID="1196" ThreadID="3928" />

    <Channel>Application</Channel>

    <Computer>Avery-PC</Computer>

    <Security />

  </System>

  <EventData>

    <Data>1117 (0x45d)</Data>

    <Data>The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.

</Data>

  </EventData>

</Event>

Answer 1

Hi Avery246,

Can you advise what exactly you are doing when you get this error?

Also, it may be a device driver issue, have you tried updating all hardware drivers?  Please see the following article:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Update-a-driver-for-hardware-that-isnt-working-properly

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

Thanks for the help but that didn't solve my problem

Answer 3

Have a look at this.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2328240