[windows2000] Re: Services dying on XP

  • From: "Jim Kenzig ThinHelp.com" <jkenzig@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:43:21 -0400

Found a cool thing you can do when working out an issue with MS support. Run
up msconfig and click on the Services tab. Check the box to hide all of the
Microsoft services. That will show you all of the NON microsoft services.
Uncheck all of those and reboot to troubleshoot which ones are the problem.
Do the same for all the startup items. Start them 1 or 2 at a time and keep
rebooting till you see the problem.
Jim Kenzig



On 4/25/07, Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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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