[windows2000] Re: Services dying on XP
- From: "Sorin Srbu" <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:21:54 +0200
Charles R. Buchanan <> wrote on Thursday, April 26, 2007 2:02 PM:
Yeah, well, I think it was a partially botched sysprep.
> Hmm? Being the worry wort (as my mom would say) it would still probably
> bug the heck out of me because if a solution/reason hasn't been
> ascertained why it was doing it in the first place, odds are, it will
> pop up again, and usually at the wrong time of course! :-O
>
>
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:48:12 +0200, "Sorin Srbu" <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> took time to say the following:
>
>> Charles R. Buchanan <> wrote on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 7:22 PM:
>>
>> I got the message. ;-) Did the reboot to make a fresh start at the time. In
>> any case, as you might've seen from a previous mail, the issue seems to
>> have been solved. At least for the time being... 8-]
>>
>>
>>> I was referring to the re-boots that you might have to do when testing
>>> the different combos of services. Granted most don't need a re-boot to
>>> start, but I was thinking it might be a good idea, just to see if those
>>> that are suppose to run automatically will start. Hope that made some
>>> sense! 8-)
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:07:40 +0200, "Sorin Srbu"
>>> <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> took time to say the following:
>>>
>>>> Charles R. Buchanan <> wrote on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 2:53 PM:
>>>>
>>>> It doesn't spontaneuosly reboot. Yet...
>>>>
>>>> But I'll start looking into what service may fail and take others with
>>>> it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> My thinking as well. I would try to find out of the services that keep
>>>>> failing, which other services are related on the web first. Maybe that
>>>>> would help to cut down on the number of re-boots possibly because that
>>>>> does take a toll on the hardware after awhile. :-(
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:41:10 +0100, "Angus Macdonald"
>>>>> <Angus.Macdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> took time to say the following:
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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
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