At first I thought it may have been due to the Intel PROSet\/Wireless software running on my computer that was doing something bad with RPC, it turns out the problem was with Nvidia driver software for my Nvidia graphics card.\u00a0 The problems were on my Asus A8JS laptop, under XP Pro SP2 & SP3, with an Nvidia GeForce Go 7700 graphics card, and Nvidia Forceware 163.44 drivers, with DirectX 9.0c.<\/p>\n
I found the solution here: I had to disable the Nvidia Driver service <\/strong>(see detailed instructions below).\u00a0 After that, I've not had any of the symptoms.<\/p>\n This describes the exact symptoms I was seeing (including the 1 minute to reboot): Apparently, you can shutdown the Nvidia Driver helper without much consequences. There may be some multi-monitor stuff that doesn't work, but you can always start it manually, or re-enable it to start automatically. Read on for detailed instructions…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n You should run the Windows XP \"Computer Management\" application, so you can disable the service.\u00a0 You can probably find this under Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools.\u00a0 If you can't find this, then you can run it \"manually\" by using Start, Run, then enter compmgmt.msc.\u00a0 If that doesn't work, try Start, Run, then services.msc.<\/p>\n Next, expand the tree to find Services, then scroll down to Nvidia Display Driver.<\/p>\n It probably will show as \"Automatic\" in the startup column.\u00a0 You want to change it to \"Manual\".\u00a0 Double-click to get the properties window, then change the Startup type to \"Manual\".<\/p>\n Click \"Ok\" to close all the windows, then re-start your computer.<\/p>\n If for some reason you lose some functionality, you can always temporarily run the service by going back to the properties window and clicking the Start button.\u00a0 This will run until your next reboot.\u00a0 Or if you want to permanently turn it back on, change the Startup Type to automatic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I finally solved a long-standing problem with my Windows XP laptop. My CPU would slowly grow to about 15% even when idle.\u00a0 Then a window would pop-up telling me I had 60 seconds to reboot because an RPC service had crashed.\u00a0 This occurred about once Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nhttp:\/\/forum.notebookreview.com\/showthread.php?p=3076277#post3076277<\/a><\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/www.notebookforums.com\/thread212236.html<\/a><\/p>\n
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