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[emad]

I got fed up with the viruses my sister managed to hoard onto her account and I was getting TONS of errors with mandatory windows services. Only solution was a reformat since I could only get rid of so many of the problems.

Anyways, as I was installing, halfway through, I got some ****ed up error that I never got before. I managed to get it to continue and the rest went without a hitch. Logged in, and less than 30 seconds later, i was greeted by a friendly RPC error... I logged onto my laptop to search the fix for it and found it and made the minor modification. Then, thanks to that install error, I couldn't finish the installation of windows update and crap.

Sooo, that corrupted my data and I wiped and started over. Same prob during windows update. (I had the service setting for Remote Procedure Call set up to do nothing on error)

One last try, but this time, I pulled the ethernet cable out my rig and installation went problem free. My old router crapped out on me so the store gave me one from microsoft since they had nothing else in stock. I turned on it's firewall (only router I know of that has this feature) this time and had the error fix for RPC set to restart service. Amazingly, the router blocked off *some* of the blaster worm attacks, but I still pulled the ethernet cable after the files were all downloaded....

What I learned? NEVER, EVER, EVER CONSIDER installing windows xp unless you have
a) a good firewall
b) you aren't connected to the net
or c) you bought the cd VERY recently

 

[Spock]

Originally posted by emad
I got fed up with the viruses my sister managed to hoard onto her account and I was getting TONS of errors with mandatory windows services. Only solution was a reformat since I could only get rid of so many of the problems.

Anyways, as I was installing, halfway through, I got some ****ed up error that I never got before. I managed to get it to continue and the rest went without a hitch. Logged in, and less than 30 seconds later, i was greeted by a friendly RPC error... I logged onto my laptop to search the fix for it and found it and made the minor modification. Then, thanks to that install error, I couldn't finish the installation of windows update and crap.

Sooo, that corrupted my data and I wiped and started over. Same prob during windows update. (I had the service setting for Remote Procedure Call set up to do nothing on error)

One last try, but this time, I pulled the ethernet cable out my rig and installation went problem free. My old router crapped out on me so the store gave me one from microsoft since they had nothing else in stock. I turned on it's firewall (only router I know of that has this feature) this time and had the error fix for RPC set to restart service. Amazingly, the router blocked off *some* of the blaster worm attacks, but I still pulled the ethernet cable after the files were all downloaded....

What I learned? NEVER, EVER, EVER CONSIDER installing windows xp unless you have
a) a good firewall
b) you aren't connected to the net
or c) you bought the cd VERY recently

hmm, i installed windows many times,, on many diffrent pcs, and with many diffrent versions of xp
and
a) i never used a firewall on any of them
b) most were on a always on router/t1 line
c) these were relese date cds

and i had no problems, and these were after the msblast worm had hit the net
(as i assume thats what your talking about when you mantioned to RPC error)

maybe your pc system just sucks?

 

[Matrixhasu77]

Originally posted by emad
I got fed up with the viruses my sister managed to hoard onto her account and I was getting TONS of errors with mandatory windows services. Only solution was a reformat since I could only get rid of so many of the problems.

Anyways, as I was installing, halfway through, I got some ****ed up error that I never got before. I managed to get it to continue and the rest went without a hitch. Logged in, and less than 30 seconds later, i was greeted by a friendly RPC error... I logged onto my laptop to search the fix for it and found it and made the minor modification. Then, thanks to that install error, I couldn't finish the installation of windows update and crap.

Sooo, that corrupted my data and I wiped and started over. Same prob during windows update. (I had the service setting for Remote Procedure Call set up to do nothing on error)

One last try, but this time, I pulled the ethernet cable out my rig and installation went problem free. My old router crapped out on me so the store gave me one from microsoft since they had nothing else in stock. I turned on it's firewall (only router I know of that has this feature) this time and had the error fix for RPC set to restart service. Amazingly, the router blocked off *some* of the blaster worm attacks, but I still pulled the ethernet cable after the files were all downloaded....

What I learned? NEVER, EVER, EVER CONSIDER installing windows xp unless you have
a) a good firewall
b) you aren't connected to the net
or c) you bought the cd VERY recently

Erm, isn't the RPC server the Print Spooler in services.msc? I had it give me an error that it couldn't be found when I installed my printer because I had the Print Spooler service turned off. maybe I'm thinking of something else.

I reformatted my computer two weeks ago with a recovery disc and everything went fine. Of course, I did this at a friends house because he had cable and a router with a hardware firewall. Within 4 or 5 hours, I was back up and running. I never got hit by that blaster worm.

 

[hanker]

Originally posted by emad
I got fed up with the viruses my sister managed to hoard onto her account and I was getting TONS of errors with mandatory windows services. Only solution was a reformat since I could only get rid of so many of the problems.

Anyways, as I was installing, halfway through, I got some ****ed up error that I never got before. I managed to get it to continue and the rest went without a hitch. Logged in, and less than 30 seconds later, i was greeted by a friendly RPC error... I logged onto my laptop to search the fix for it and found it and made the minor modification. Then, thanks to that install error, I couldn't finish the installation of windows update and crap.

Sooo, that corrupted my data and I wiped and started over. Same prob during windows update. (I had the service setting for Remote Procedure Call set up to do nothing on error)

One last try, but this time, I pulled the ethernet cable out my rig and installation went problem free. My old router crapped out on me so the store gave me one from microsoft since they had nothing else in stock. I turned on it's firewall (only router I know of that has this feature) this time and had the error fix for RPC set to restart service. Amazingly, the router blocked off *some* of the blaster worm attacks, but I still pulled the ethernet cable after the files were all downloaded....

What I learned? NEVER, EVER, EVER CONSIDER installing windows xp unless you have
a) a good firewall
b) you aren't connected to the net
or c) you bought the cd VERY recently

Well having re-formatted myselff just recently because of viruses also, I pretty much have an identical story. I installed Windows all was fine, but by the time I installed Norton i already had 2 viruses, to like you said i unplugged the internet, and now I got a firewall also. So yeah that remined me of my porblem!!!