RPC Service terminated

[DTracy]

A workstation (Panasonic CF-29 notebook) with XP-pro starts up ok then in about one minute displays an error message:
"The system is shutting down. Please save all work in progress and log off. Any unsaved changes will be lost. This shutdown was initited be NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM.
Remote Procedure Controller RPC service terminated unexpectedly." There is a 60 second countdown timer displayed, when zero the unit shuts down and starts over--does the same thing, again and again. Safe mode does the same thing.
I did a repair install of the operating system (no reformat), same thing.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks,
David

 

[linney]

You can bypass and prevent the 60 second shutdown by aborting the shutdown via typing Shutdown /a in the Start Run box.

If you can get it to run you might be able to check the machine for virus and malware.

Removing adware & spyware
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It might be a case of backing up your valuable data and doing a clean install of XP.

There are bits of this thread which might come in handy.

Cannot logon to winxp...losing lots of valuable documents
thread779-975236

 

[DTracy]

linney,
Thanks for the tip about shutdown. I finally used BartPE to backup their data, as soon as I can find the rest of the discs (touchscreen notebook) I will reformat and do a clean install.

I don't get it! The McAfee is all up to date, and a scan showed no problems. When I did a repair install there was a problem with initialization of comm+, never saw that before. Still no joy.

<rant>I'd like to get my hands on one of these clowns that do these virus/malware programs, these people are nothing more than common computer terrorists.<end rant>

Anyway, thanks again for the help, it is greatly appreciated.
David.

 

[linney]

Anything on Google about "initialization of com+"?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...tnG=Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=gw

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...tnG=Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wg

 

[DTracy]

Linney,
I found the disks and went ahead with a new image--fixed the problem.

Thanks for the help, it is very much appreciated.

David.