I have a brand new pc and the setup is P4, asus p5gd2 board, onboard wi-fi lan and on board ethernet, on board sound. I'm connected thru cable with a Linksys 4port router. I have re-installed xp and sp2 and xp with sp1 at least 15 times since I got my new pc, couple of weeks ago. I keep getting the error message "RPC server is unavailable". When that happens, I can't copy/paste, taskbar won't work properly, no sound, IE won't function properly. I have zonealarm 4.59400 and norton antivirus 2004 installed. So far I've: - logged in as Administrator, went into Services successfully restarted Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Locator but when I try to restart/start Remote Procedure Call (RPC) I get the Error 5: Access is denied. Could not start the RPC service on Local Computer - also restarted TCP/Ip NetBios Helper, didn't help - went into command prompt and tried to start the RPC , got same Error 5 - disabled zonealarm, unable to delete zonalarm, getting error "Validation failed for c:\docum~\admni~\locals~1\temp\vsinit.dll - tried all this in safe mode, didn't work Any suggestions? I don't know what else to try.

your disc may be damaged and corupting the winsock....go here and download this utillity to see if it fixes you up; http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm LET ME KNOW ...ONE WAY OR THE OTHER!! IN THE MATTERS OF STYLE, swim with the current; in matters of principle, STAND LIKE A ROCK

Thank you for the suggestion, still no luck. I ran the LSPFix.exe and when clicked finished no corrections were made. I don't have Ad-Aware installed but I do have 2 Western Digital IDE hard drives, 40GB on primary and 60GB on secondary. I install the OS on c:\ and create a P:\ for the paging file. I also tried disabling the on board wi-fi LAN but still no luck. Any thoughts?

have you got a cannon 3 in 1 printer hooked up to your system if so you heve to download thier sp2 patch to fix the problem xp pro 3.0gz pent 4 1gb ddr400ram 120GB Hard drive nvida 256 mbx8 video card asus ps4800 mainboard wireless networked dvd+/-rw NO PAGE FILE

i don't have any printers installed. Reformatted again and got all the windows updates. still getting rpc server is unavailable.

I do have a Cannon 3 in 1 (Multipass C555) installed how do I stop the constant pop-ups (RPC server) that cover my screen???Thanks!