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ranger_cole
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I am having major xp pro sp1 troubles. My pc reboots after getting to the desktop. This is a dual boot system with the other os win 98se. Win 98se does not reboot by itself. This started after installing a free screensaver from www.freeze.com. Free Living aquarium Screen Saver was the name of it. After installing and rebooting I got a message that mxtask had changed (agnitum firewall reported this). This was the first clue. Then I noticed my APC ups software was not being loaded at startup, my external HD, connected via usb disappeared (The external HD shows up fine in win 98se). Then the pc started rebooting when xp loaded. I tried to run system restore but it reboots before it can get started. I tired uninstalling the freeze screen saver but it could not open the install log?. I was able to uninstall freeze screensaver via mcafee uninstaller. I then went into msconfig and tried to do a selective startup. This did not fix the problem. I found out that nearly all services were disabled. I did not disable them. I tired to see if all this was virus related by running avast virus scanner but it says it could not run due to an error in RPC. Also before the rebooting started I had to install a new DVD derive and a usb 2.0 hub. I thought maybe this hardware was causing the problem (work fine in win98se) so I started removing usb devices 1 at a time and started adding them back 1 at a time. All this did was cause win xp pro to need to be reactivated because of major hardware changes. I also thought that the services.exe might be corrupted and tried this
Start > Run sfc /scannow but as it progressed it said to load the xp pro cd because it needed files from the cd. When I loaded the cd and knew it was loaded( cd open with splash screen/ could be opened from my computer) sfc /scannow kept asking for me to insert the cd( it was inserted) but I got the insert cd message over and over so I just quit. UPDATE:
I ran msconfig and set xp to run diagnostic startup and pc quit rebooting. Still cannot get RPC to run and that means usb devices not found, cannot surf internet, etc. I cannot do a system restore past 11/18/03. Problem started 11/14/03. I ran symantec msblaster virus removal tool and did not find it. I searched the registry for the various variations of the msblater and they were not found. I am going to try stinger virus removal from mcafee 11/19/03. Attached is screenshoot of my pc's services that are not running.
So I am now stuck with a win xp pro pc that will reboot after a few minutes. Luckily win 98se still works
Start > Run sfc /scannow but as it progressed it said to load the xp pro cd because it needed files from the cd. When I loaded the cd and knew it was loaded( cd open with splash screen/ could be opened from my computer) sfc /scannow kept asking for me to insert the cd( it was inserted) but I got the insert cd message over and over so I just quit. UPDATE:
I ran msconfig and set xp to run diagnostic startup and pc quit rebooting. Still cannot get RPC to run and that means usb devices not found, cannot surf internet, etc. I cannot do a system restore past 11/18/03. Problem started 11/14/03. I ran symantec msblaster virus removal tool and did not find it. I searched the registry for the various variations of the msblater and they were not found. I am going to try stinger virus removal from mcafee 11/19/03. Attached is screenshoot of my pc's services that are not running.
So I am now stuck with a win xp pro pc that will reboot after a few minutes. Luckily win 98se still works