NT Authority\System RPC shutdown problem

Win XP SP2

Restarted my work computer this morning only to find on re-boot
windows takes an age to load then starts an NT Authority\System 60
second count down to restarting siting and RPC failure as the cause.

My system is kept up to date with patches, is virus checked an updated
every day with AVG7 and Spybot S&D is run every week. I've
disconnected it from the network, but still no clue as to what's
causing the problem. Shutdown -a stops the problem temporarily then
the 60 second dialog re-starts, not giving me a chance to do anything
of great importance befor it dies.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Aaron

 

Could be the Blaster Worm. Check this link from Microsoft:

http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/blast.mspx

Symantec had a scanner for this last year called FixBlast.exe. More info at:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.html

 

I like to think I'm fairly clued up. I've been patched against all
that stuff as soon as the patches came available. Now I'm running XP
SP2. It is most definitely not blaster. Virus scans come up negative.
Other problems have manifested now too. The task bar off the bottom of
the screen with only a strip of bar showing. Most of the control panel
programs won't work. I tried taking the frive out and rescuing the
files in another computer, but these work computers have been
installed with XP Home on NTFS and I can't get access to the files to
copy them.

Aaron

 

What happens if you boot it in Safe Mode?


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."

 

The same thing. It takes ages to boot, then once I'm logged in the NT
Authority\System RPC shutdown count down appears. This is kind of
getting bad, I have some important work related documents on this
machine and it won't allow me to move things to network drives or
other internal/removable drives. Drag/drop doesn't work, neither do
dos commands. As mentioned in my other post most of the control panel
programs don't appear to function and the task bar is off the bottom
of the screen and only showing a few pixels, that one is very strange
indeed - the windows key no longer works either. The video settings
haven't changed - you can't move the mouse pointer off the screen too
IYSWIM. I've tried putting the (NTFS) drive into another computer to
rescue my files, but it just says access denied when I try to copy
them. I can't say I've used NTFS before.

Aaron

 

This article may help with that step:

How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 308421
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=308421

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."

 

Thanks for that Ron. I copied the partition, converted it to FAT32 and took
the files off it that way. Messy I suppose, but it worked. The drive is
now re-formatted and I've re-installed XP. Thanks for your help.

Aaron