It might be worth putting together atable of some sort. List each failing service and obtain its' dependencies from the services admin tools applet. once you know all the dependencies, a bit of old-fashioned mental analysis might lead you somewhere. -----Original Message----- From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Sorin Srbu Sent: 25 April 2007 15:07 To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] Re: Services dying on XP Angus Macdonald <> wrote on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 2:41 PM: There's so many failing I don't even know where to start. The Remote Procedure-services seem to fail as well, and IIRC many other services depend on these. Might be them, but I haven't a clue to why. Another thing I noticed now, was that when I run Sysinternals Bginfo it can't find the Logon-domain and logon-server; says it's unknown. Although I can logon with my admin-accounts etc. Something tells me the sysprep might not have been entirely successful... > Perhaps a single service on which other services depend is failing, taking > the others out with it. Failures should be noted in the event log. > > -----Original Message----- > From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Sorin Srbu > Sent: 25 April 2007 12:51 > To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [windows2000] Re: Services dying on XP > > > Jim Kenzig ThinHelp.com <> wrote on Tuesday, April 24, 2007 6:26 PM: > > Uninstalled SAVCE, rebooted a few times. Same thing, the services still die. > 8-/ > > > >> What antivirus are you using? Try turning it off and see if the services >> start. >> >> >> >> On 4/24/07, Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Have you had services just die on a computer? >> >> I have five of them... All the same brand and model (Dell Optiplex GX270). >> I initially installed one of them as I wanted it, then ran sysprep on the >> master and mirrored this master to the other four. Yes, it's a long and >> tedious way, but I wanted to try sysprep out now when I for once had five >> identical systems. >> >> Anyway, the computers worked fine for a month or so, and the problems >> started. >> >> One of the machines I manually reinstalled (without sysprep) but I still >> have the same problem with this one as the other four. >> >> All of them run WinXP SP2 English. >> >> I was alerted to the fact that something was wrong when some of the users >> using the new(ish) machines reported that the audio was gone. Checking the >> services, I noticed several services that were set to automatic start, >> weren't starting as they. On occasion they would start properly and then >> shutdown after a few minutes. >> >> Would you guys have any idea what's going on, because I'm at a loss >> here... >> >> I'd appreciate any info or hints on this problem. >> >> TIA. >> >> -- >> >> BW, >> >> Sorin >> >> # Sorin Srbu, Systems Engineer Web: http://www.orgfarm.uu.se >> # Dept of Medicinal Chemistry, Phone: +46 (0)18-4714482 >3 signals> GSM >> # Div of Org Pharm Chem, Mobile: +46 (0)701-718023 >> # Box 574, Uppsala University, Fax: +46 (0)18-4714482 >> # SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden Visit: BMC, Husargatan 3, D5:512b # >> # () ASCII ribbon campaign - Against html E-mail >> # /\ >> # >> # Harmless tagline follows: >> # >> # Legacy MS Tag: DOS never says "EXCELLENT command or filename"... >> >> ***************************** >> New Site from The Kenzig Group! >> Windows Vista Links, list options >> and info are available at: >> http://www.VistaPop.com >> ***************************** >> To Unsubscribe, set digest or vacation >> mode or view archives use the below link. >> >> http://thethin.net/win2000list.cfm > > ***************************** > New Site from The Kenzig Group! > Windows Vista Links, list options > and info are available at: > http://www.VistaPop.com > ***************************** > To Unsubscribe, set digest or vacation > mode or view archives use the below link. > > http://thethin.net/win2000list.cfm > ***************************** > New Site from The Kenzig Group! > Windows Vista Links, list options > and info are available at: > http://www.VistaPop.com > ***************************** > To Unsubscribe, set digest or vacation > mode or view archives use the below link. > > http://thethin.net/win2000list.cfm ***************************** New Site from The Kenzig Group! Windows Vista Links, list options and info are available at: http://www.VistaPop.com ***************************** To Unsubscribe, set digest or vacation mode or view archives use the below link. http://thethin.net/win2000list.cfm ***************************** New Site from The Kenzig Group! Windows Vista Links, list options and info are available at: http://www.VistaPop.com ***************************** To Unsubscribe, set digest or vacation mode or view archives use the below link. http://thethin.net/win2000list.cfm