Re: Running D3 on XP-PRO but the D3 service won't start.

Sheesh. Questioning Mark Brown is like questioning G_d. Watch out for
lightening.

"Peter McMurray" <excalibur21@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:lUQbf.11137$Hj2.1955@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi
> I doubt that it is a service pack problem as I have D3 running on the
latest
> XP-PRO Service Pack 2. Also it is extremely unlikely that RD a Microsoft
> partner would use something that vanished from the later release. I
suspect
> help desk laziness with that sort of comment. Quite possibly CompUSA,
> whoever they are, did it incorrectly.
> Peter McMurray
>
> "Mark Brown" <mbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:ULObf.5361$QM5.78@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Have you upgraded to XP-Pro/SP2? I had the same problem. I bought a
> > brand new Sony laptop with XP-Home. Then I bought the XP-Pro/sp2
upgrade
> > and had CompUSA do the upgrade and test it. Then I loaded D3 and it
> > wouldn't work. I spent two days at RD trying to get it to work.
> >
> > Finally, in desperation, I restored the laptop "to factory settings"
> > (xp-home), re-installed Pick and it's been working fine ever since.
> >
> > They told me there's a DLL with a dependent DLL in XP sp1. The
dependent
> > DLL has been replaced in sp2 and so the DLL RD depends on isn't there.
> >
> > Mark Brown
> >
> >
> > "Neil Charrington" <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:672dnSfAIek9HfLeRVnyuw@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Hopefully someone can help.
> >>
> >> I have loaded D3, successfully, and licensed it but when I reboot the
> >> system and try to start the D3 service, it stops immediately and MS
> >> returns an error that says:
> >>
> >> "RPC Locator has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry
> >> for the inconvenience."
> >>
> >> I have checked the RPC Locator service and it says started.
> >>
> >> I have tried repeatedly to get D3 the run correctly. It seems to be on
> >> the latest version that this happens as I had everything working well
> >> with a previous release on W2K.
> >>
> >> I have also tried this on two separate systems, both with XP-Pro.
> >>
> >> I must be doing something wrong but I have spoken with RD support and
> >> they say that they have experienced this problem but do not have a
> >> recorded solution for it.
> >>
> >> Thanks for your time.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Neil
> >>
> >> Neil Charrington
> >>
> >> C.A. Software Systems
> >>
> >> T: +44 1564 777011
> >>
> >> F: +44 1564 777454
> >>
> >> W: www.casoftware.co.uk
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>


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