help...please?

[Karby]

i'm using winXP w/ service pak1 installed, but i recently got sp2.
i keep getting this error:

Source: DCOM
Type:Error
Event Id:10010
User:HPAV\user
Computer: HPAV
Description:
The server {0002DF02-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} did not register with DCOM within the required timeout.

i've searched microsoft but no luck. i found other postings about it on other message boards, but nothing useful. my internet connection keeps going off by itself, and for some reason it keeps telling me that i can't renew my ip address. this has been going on for some time now. i've even reformated my computer, and still nothing works! please help

[soopafreek]

something here:

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=900341

there are others... search google for "dcom error sp2". there are a bunch of things.

[Furious M]

That's one of the problems with SP2, it changes all of your settings and automatically turns on the built-in XP firewall. I don't have XP on my personal computer and we haven't implemented SP2 on the computers where I work yet for this very reason, so I can't offer you a solution yet. But maybe knowing what the problem could be can help you find a solution.

[Lasereth]

I don't see how SP2 can be the problem if he's formatted his PC to fix it. Not unless SP2 changes BIOS settings on your mobo which is a stretch. Sounds like a grade-A hardware-switch test needs to be administered.

-Lasereth

[Karby]

Originally Posted by soopafreek

something here:

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=900341

there are others... search google for "dcom error sp2". there are a bunch of things.

wah! thanx, but i've already been to that site...i tried everything they said, and still no luck. the microsoft site was the first place i looked, followed directly by google. i checked 14 pages of google, and still i got nothing. and some of the places that did offer a solution required a subscription to the site...and i don't have any money...at least, not to spend right now ...any other ideas? i could really use it...

[Karby]

Originally Posted by Lasereth

I don't see how SP2 can be the problem if he's formatted his PC to fix it. Not unless SP2 changes BIOS settings on your mobo which is a stretch. Sounds like a grade-A hardware-switch test needs to be administered.

-Lasereth

i reformatted again, and now i'm back on my old os-Millenium. it doesn't happen when i use the millenium edition, but millenium is so horrible and eats system resources like it's drinking water..

[Furious M]

Didn't see the reformat part the first time i read it. The question is, did you put SP2 back on after you reformatted or was it the original XP still giving you problems? The fact that it's working on that god-aweful ME tells me that it's not a hardware problem.

My money is still on it being SP2/firewall related, unless the reformat was with vanilla XP, in which case I have no idea.

[Karby]

when i had the original xp i didn't have any problems, and running millenium now, i don't have problems. the problems started when i got sp2, and it got really nasty when i kept geting that error saying my ip address can't be renewed.

[soopafreek]

Originally Posted by Karby

wah! thanx, but i've already been to that site...i tried everything they said, and still no luck. the microsoft site was the first place i looked, followed directly by google. i checked 14 pages of google, and still i got nothing. and some of the places that did offer a solution required a subscription to the site...and i don't have any money...at least, not to spend right now ...any other ideas? i could really use it...

did you tweak any of your services (i.e. - black viper's xp services tweaks)? or did you happen to catch "blaster" or one of it's variants????

those are my guesses... otherwise, like lasereth says, it could be a hardware problem.

[Furious M]

It's gotta be the firewall then. Honestly I can't give you any advice on it since I haven't looked at a system with SP2 on it yet, other than do without SP2 until all the bugs have been worked out. It was a pretty large rewrite of the OS, and it was rushed so everyone that gets it is basically being unwilling beta testers. Unless you want to search for ways to fix it under the assumption it's the firewall problem that's about all I can give you.

[Karby]

ok, nevermind...i fixed it. turns out it was the firewall, as well as the way i had my internet set up. it's fine now. thanx

[hrdwareguy]

Originally Posted by Furious M

That's one of the problems with SP2, it changes all of your settings and automatically turns on the built-in XP firewall. I don't have XP on my personal computer and we haven't implemented SP2 on the computers where I work yet for this very reason, so I can't offer you a solution yet. But maybe knowing what the problem could be can help you find a solution.

This is incorrect. SP2 does not automatically turn on the firewall. Although Microsoft wanted to do this, they could not due to export laws. It does pop up with a very cartoony screen after install asking if you want to turn it on and reccommends that you do so.

[Furious M]

Well, maybe I was wrong about it automatically turning the firewall on, but that's what I've read in several places. But obviously I was right about the firewall being the problem in this case.