RPC shutdown once connected to the NET

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Simon Jackson

Hi,
I have just carried out an inplace upgrade of a windows 98
workstation to XP SP1. I have also applied SP1a.

Everything is fine until I connect to the Internet with a
dial up connection. When I do this after a couple of
minutes a shutdown dialogue box appears and the tells me
that the workstation will shutdown in 60 seconds.

This only ever occurs when I connect to the Internet. So I
thought that the problem may have been with the modem
driver. I went and bought a new PCI modem that had XP
drivers and installed this on the system.

But the problem is still happening. This is a real problem
for me.

Can anyone shed any light on this and giove me some
advice. I cannot do a reinstall of the OS as there are
several programs for which the disks are no longer
available and a couple of bespoke pieces of code too...

The event log states that the RPS service has failed
unexpectedly with an error for which there is no name
(Code 0xFF).

Once again all advice is appreciated.

Sam.
 
Simon Jackson said:
Hi,
I have just carried out an inplace upgrade of a windows 98
workstation to XP SP1. I have also applied SP1a.

Everything is fine until I connect to the Internet with a
dial up connection. When I do this after a couple of
minutes a shutdown dialogue box appears and the tells me
that the workstation will shutdown in 60 seconds.

This only ever occurs when I connect to the Internet. So I
thought that the problem may have been with the modem
driver. I went and bought a new PCI modem that had XP
drivers and installed this on the system.

But the problem is still happening. This is a real problem
for me.

Can anyone shed any light on this and giove me some
advice. I cannot do a reinstall of the OS as there are
several programs for which the disks are no longer
available and a couple of bespoke pieces of code too...

The event log states that the RPS service has failed
unexpectedly with an error for which there is no name
(Code 0xFF).

Once again all advice is appreciated.

Sam.
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You have Blaster or one of the variants.
Take the infected machine off the Internet and any lans immediately.
From a different machine, go here and read all about it:

http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.html

Clean up your computer and get it patched.

courtesy of Malke
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Guys,
Thanks for your help. It is a real pain that the 98
machine had the file but it only showed when I took it to
XP.

I try to get the security updates but 10mb over 56k - I
have no chance.

Is there some location I can pull down ALL the XP critical
security updates onto my pendrive in one go so that I can
then update the local machine without the need to spend
days on the web. I have a 10mb link to the net in the
office and I have an empty pendrive just waiting...

When I go to the Windows update page it takes forever and
i only get offered the updates for my local machine...

Thaks for your help,
Sam.
 
All,
A big thank you . All is fine. Blast has been dealt with
and everything is dandy. I downloaded the patch files from
Windows Ctalogue.
Once again,
Many thanks,
Simon.
 
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