Re: URGENT. LOGIN PROBLEM WITH WINDOWS 2003

From: psyxonova (psyxonova_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/19/05 

Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 15:55:40 +0200

Thanks for your post.

Although your suggestion seem to me like the right one it is impossible
to run sfc.exe since there is no way i can login to the system and run a
command (as i have mentioned in my previous post).
I have tried to log on in to safe mode but what happens is that i get
the popup message that informs me "You are running on safe mode... etc,
etc" i click OK, explorer resets and the message apears over and over again.
When i login in to "Safe mode with command prompt" i login normally
(into console offcourse) and when i try to run sfc.exe /scannow i get
the error "The RPC server is anavailable".
I have tried to disable almost ALL services through network but the
problem still occurs.
I am despered, please provide me with more suggestions.

Pegasus (MVP) wrote:
> "Ioannis" <Ioannis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:1D03F2D6-9790-4AF2-AB6D-8E341E1DCF67@microsoft.com...
>
>>As of yersteday i have a major problem with my win2k3 machine that works
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> as
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>>file, print and web server.
>>While the server starts normally and users have network access to it
>>(printing, file shares) there is no way i can logon locally.
>>Whenever i try to logon locally my desktop starts loading but after a few
>>seconds (and i believe when the local area connection icon comes to sytem
>>tray) explorer resets and starts over again, driving my server in to an
>>endless loop of loading the desktop. The only thing i can do is start the
>>taskmanager using ctrl-alt-del and logoff or reboot the system. I cannot
>>interact with the desktop the few seconds that i can see it. I cant even
>
> use
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>>shortcuts like windowskey+r to run a command. I have tried to run msconfig
>>since i think the problem is related with a start-up programm from task
>>manager but with no success.
>>This happens with every account. I have tried to connect using remote
>>desktop and the exact same behavior occurs.
>>Same behavior under Safe Mode. Last known good configuration does not
>
> fixes
>
>>the problem.
>>I used a custom made CD with Pre-Installation environment & Winternals
>>Commander to disable suspicious services (like Norton antivirus and
>
> diskeeper
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>>administrator) but with no success (even though i have disabled all NON
>>microsoft services).
>>Even more i have noticed (using task manager) that whenever explorer
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> resets
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>>a lot of CPU is used by one particullar of the SVCHOST processes but when
>
> i
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>>try to terminate the process i get a shutdown message because the RPC
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> (remote
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>>procedure call) service has been terminated unexpectadly.
>>Now i have noticed that my webserver has also stopped working, while it
>>seemed fine 2 hours ago.
>>I suspect that everything started when i installed the latest pack of
>>critical windows updates (just yersteday).
>>Please help me...
>>I am an advanced user and i have worked as windows support technician for
>>more than 4 years (supporting mostly mid-sclae office networks) but this
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> is
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>>the first time i see this kind of behavior.
>>If anybody needs more details i would gladly provide them.
>>Thanks in advance
>
>
> Since the problem occurs both in normal in in Safe Mode, it likely
> to be caused by a damaged version of explorer.exe. I would run
> sfc.exe to examine all system files.
>
>

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