WinXP RPC Procedure?!?!

[fuxor]

Ok this problem cropped up a week or two ago, but it didn't happen too often. First, IEXPLORE.EXE or DCOMX.EXE would crash, giving the the old "send error report/don't send" popup... then it would give me the message attached, and reboot after the countdown ended. Now it's happening every time I boot up.

hold on i gotta reboot again... this is stupid

OK, every time I startup, IEXPLORE.EXE is crashing... without me doing anything. If i click "don't send" the RPC popup comes up immediately, and I've got a minute until total meltdown. If I don't click it, I have around 30 before it comes up anyways

[shwaip]

maybe something to do with this? (http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1208670,00.asp)

[Shorty]

Fux..

Boot into safemode with networking and download this patch linked from this page here (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-026.asp)

It got to where I couldn't even boot my PC into Windows for more than 20 seconds earlier :mad:

[fuxor]

sweet, I knew you guys could help. thanks

[fuxor]

the message even came up in safe mode with networking! I had to boot into straight safe mode to apply the patch. I rebooted into normal mode and although IEXPLORE crashed again at boot, I haven't seen that obnoxious message. Thanks again fellas!

[El Cheapo]

To give you enough time to download the patch:

http://microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-026.asp

Go to "Services" and in "Remote Procedure Call",set the "action taken" to "Restart Service",instead of "Restart the Computer"

Install the patch,enable the XP Firewall,and you should be good to go--for awhile,at least.

If you find a file on your machine named "msblast.exe"--kill it in task manager,then go to the system32 folder and delete it.

Also delete the registry key HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Run\windows auto update, it points to C:\windows\system32\msblast.exe.

Hope this helps--it worked for me(I didn't have msblast.exe on my system,though)

ec

[Clutch]

You guys are great, this message just started to show up on my computer, then tonight my friend asks me the same thing, it just started on his computer also. I was just about to start a thread about this, glad I came here first.

[fuxor]

Although I wasn't getting the countdown error anymore, I did find msblast and killed that sucka and its reg key. thanks for the tips!

[GHoosdum]

Thanks for this post... I was reading it just as one of my teammates at school said "Why is my computer rebooting like this?"

... I fixed it in short order!