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Event ID 146: Soft Restart failed to establish connection with secure load with status

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Soft Restart failed to establish connection with secure load with status

Event 146
Kernel-Boot
System log
Error
Message and fields (as Event Viewer shows them) 
Soft Restart failed to establish connection with secure load with status: …

The RODC has received … requests in the previous … minutes.

Event 146
Time-Service
System log
Information
Message and fields (as Event Viewer shows them) 
The RODC has received … requests in the previous … minutes. … have resulted in success, and … have resulted in failure.

IO latency summary:

Event 146
Ntfs
System log
Information
Message and fields (as Event Viewer shows them) 
IO latency summary:

           Volume Id: …
           Volume name: …
           Is boot volume: …

           Device GUID: …
           Device manufacturer: …
           Device model: …
           Device revision: …
           Device serial number: …
           Bus type: …

           Adapter serial number: …

           Max Acceptable IO Latency: … ms

           Read/Write latency buckets (ns): […, …, …, …, …, …, …]
           Trim latency buckets (ns): […, …, …, …, …, …, …]
           Flush latency buckets (ns): […, …, …, …, …, …, …]

           Interval duration: … us

           Non-cached reads:
                     IO count: …
                     Total bytes: …
                     Avg latency: … ns

           Non-cached writes:
                     IO count: …
                     Total bytes: …
                     Avg latency: … ns

           File flushes:
                     IO count: …
                     Avg latency: … ns

           Directory flushes:
                     IO count: …
                     Avg latency: … ns

           Volume flushes:
                     IO count: …
                     Avg latency: … ns

           File level trims:
                     IO count: …
                     Total bytes: …
                     Extents count: …
                     Avg latency: … ns

           Volume trims:
                     IO count: …
                     Total bytes: …
                     Extents count: …
                     Avg latency: … ns

           VCB exclusive resource acquires:
                     Acquire count: …
                     Max wait duration: … ms
                     Avg wait duration: … ms
                     Max hold duration: … ms
                     Avg hold duration: … ms
                     Max combined duration: … ms
                     Avg combined duration: … ms

           For more details see the details tab.

Task Scheduler failed to load task "…" at service startup.

Event 146
TaskScheduler
TaskScheduler/Operational log
Error
Message and fields (as Event Viewer shows them) 
Task Scheduler failed to load task "…" at service startup. Additional Data: Error Value: ….