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Help! Constant crashing when waking up from standby in XP

post #1 of 16
6/18/08 at 3:00pm
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Hey folks,

I have an HP dv9207us running XP. Pretty much ever since I got it, it crashes when coming out of standby. svchost crashes which then shows me that RPC has crashed which forces my laptop to shutdown in 60 seconds. Just like clockwork if it goes into standy ... I KNOW it's going to crash when it wakes up.

I've reinstalled XP several times, tried different AV, using XP Pro SP3 now, flashed the latest bios from HP's site, etc. Pretty much everything I can think of. My PC doesn't qualify for the free repair either.

Any ideas on this? It's really getting old and I don't want to buy a new laptop.

Thanks,

Super
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post #2 of 16
6/18/08 at 7:13pm
in the boot.ini (system, advanced, startup) want to ty to set the flag /noexecute=AlwaysOFF and see?

cheers ...
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post #3 of 16
6/18/08 at 8:22pm
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Originally Posted by qhn View Post
in the boot.ini (system, advanced, startup) want to ty to set the flag /noexecute=AlwaysOFF and see?

cheers ...
Thanks. Did as you suggested and I'll report back.
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post #4 of 16
6/19/08 at 12:48pm
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No dice on the NX flag. Let it sit awhile and it crashed when I tried to wake it up.
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post #5 of 16
6/19/08 at 4:22pm
do u have anything running in the background at the time?

cheers ...
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post #6 of 16
6/19/08 at 7:34pm
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Not really. The only thing I had open at the time was a web browser (Sea Monkey, former Mozilla suite). Just have a lot of the driver basics loaded.

Funny thing is I use the same disk to load my laptop as I do my desktop and my desktop doesn't have any problems.
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post #7 of 16
6/21/08 at 11:56am
Did you do all our the Windows Updates? I remember a long time ago someone saying they had that before and an update corrected it. I am not sure tho
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post #8 of 16
6/21/08 at 1:21pm
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Yeah, I'm all patched. Even installed SP3 hoping that would help ... no dice.

I band aided it a bit. I found in services I can tell it what to do when a service crashes (it's RPC that crashes for some reason). Defaulted to reboot the PC. I set it to just restart the service. So far that's kept it up when it's crashed, but I'd like to figure out why it does that so it can be fixed right.
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post #9 of 16
6/22/08 at 3:31pm
just being curious, r u running some sort of peer2peer up/download and being inside a network enverionment?

cheers ...
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post #10 of 16
6/22/08 at 5:25pm
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just being curious, r u running some sort of peer2peer up/download and being inside a network enverionment?

cheers ...
Nope. It's attached to my home wireless network but that's it.
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post #11 of 16
6/23/08 at 1:35pm
I think I know your problem. I bet it says RPC has error and needs to shutdown right?

Run services.msc
Double click Remote Procedural Call
Recovery Tab
Change all from Restart the Computer to Take No Action
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post #12 of 16
6/23/08 at 1:40pm
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I think I know your problem. I bet it says RPC has error and needs to shutdown right?

Run services.msc
Double click Remote Procedural Call
Recovery Tab
Change all from Restart the Computer to Take No Action
Yeah, that's the error. I did what you suggested previously except changed it to restart the service. What will happen if it's changed to "do nothing"?

Any idea on what actually causes the issue?
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post #13 of 16
6/23/08 at 1:54pm
Well I had this happen to me out of nowhere too. It's just Windows being stupid...as usual or it's windows thinking the service is crashing even though it isn't. I changed it to do nothing and nothing bad happened. Did this fix the problem? I'm betting saying "restart service" is going to interrupt all your network connections sporadiaclly...but trial and error it.

And if all else fail's reinstall Windows
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post #14 of 16
6/23/08 at 2:17pm
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lol I've reinstalled Windows so many times on this PC ... I wish that was the fix.
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post #15 of 16
6/25/08 at 12:50pm
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One thing I found yesterday ... I'm starting to wonder if the Nvidia driver is causing the issue. It seems to want to crash after the RPC service crashes. Additionally, I wasn't running my laptop (supposedly sleeping) and I heard the fan running as I walked by. Popped open the resource monitor and the nvscv32 had sucked up over 1GB of memory. Yes, 1GB.

I'm using the drivers from laptopvideo2go.com. Don't know what else to do as HP supposedly support this laptop for Vista only.
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post #16 of 16
6/25/08 at 3:08pm
Oh this is an easy one. I had that service using 100% CPU for no reason. Go services.msc, Nvidia Display Driver, Stop, Disable. Nothing bad happens to your driver by doing that.....google for proof.
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