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Monday, February 10, 2003 at 6:38 pm
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Posted by Gaz (1 messages posted)

Hardware or software problem I will never know as a few weeks after this problem started my harddrive died. Unluckily it was while backing up the drive though luckily it was one week before warranty expired. My advice is to backup as soon as the symtoms start. Gaz

On Thursday, December 19, 2002 at 8:14 am, Garth Wood wrote:

>One other tip which may possibly help:
>
>Under "Settings --> Control Panel --> Administrative Tools --> Services," check 
to 
>see if the two RPC (Remote Procedure Call) services are running.  If not, start 
them, 
>and set their startup type to "Automatic."  This has helped me immensely, although 
>by no means has it completely cured the problem.
>
>I've tried to find info on this problem on MS's Knowledge Base off and on for several 
>years now, without much luck.  I wonder if anyone at MS even knows it *is* a problem...
>
>Garth
>
>






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