Guest tbone Posted June 25, 2008 Posted June 25, 2008 My Windows XP Pro SP2 laptop won't boot after applying the MS08-030 update. Windows gets stuck at the "starting up" screen. I replaced bthport.sys with the old file from the uninstall folder, but that didn't help. Using a BartPE CD, I was able to edit the registry to turn on verbose status messages during boot. Now I can see what's happening (not much). XP hangs while starting up WLNOTIFY. I see periodic disk activity, but I've seen that before (something about sensing the DVD drive). I've let it sit for over 20 minutes; still no boot. I read about the trojan WINOTIFY and made sure I have the real thing. I also copied a backup from dllcache, but still no joy. The latest thing I tried was to actually delete WLNOTIFY.DLL (again, with BartPE giving me access). Now XP is stuck on "RPCSS is starting...", which I think I saw before, just before starting WLNOTIFY before. It seems like whatever happens right after WLNOTIFY is started is where the problem is. Naturally, my backup is out of date enough that I'd really like to get this system fixed. Any ideas? Thanks tbone
Guest Thee Chicago Wolf Posted June 26, 2008 Posted June 26, 2008 Re: Problem with MS08-030 / bthport.sys?? What starts up after WLNOTIFY? >My Windows XP Pro SP2 laptop won't boot after applying the MS08-030 >update. Windows gets stuck at the "starting up" screen. > >I replaced bthport.sys with the old file from the uninstall folder, >but that didn't help. > >Using a BartPE CD, I was able to edit the registry to turn on verbose >status messages during boot. Now I can see what's happening (not >much). XP hangs while starting up WLNOTIFY. I see periodic disk >activity, but I've seen that before (something about sensing the DVD >drive). I've let it sit for over 20 minutes; still no boot. > >I read about the trojan WINOTIFY and made sure I have the real thing. >I also copied a backup from dllcache, but still no joy. > >The latest thing I tried was to actually delete WLNOTIFY.DLL (again, >with BartPE giving me access). Now XP is stuck on "RPCSS is >starting...", which I think I saw before, just before starting >WLNOTIFY before. > >It seems like whatever happens right after WLNOTIFY is started is >where the problem is. Naturally, my backup is out of date enough that >I'd really like to get this system fixed. > >Any ideas? > >Thanks >tbone Microsoft re-released this patch on the 19th. Grab it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=980bb421-950f-4825-8039-44cc961a47b8&DisplayLang=en - Thee Chicago Wolf
Guest tbone Posted June 26, 2008 Posted June 26, 2008 Re: Problem with MS08-030 / bthport.sys?? What starts up after WLNOTIFY? On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:23:55 -0500, Thee Chicago Wolf <.@.> wrote: > >Microsoft re-released this patch on the 19th. Grab it here: >http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=980bb421-950f-4825-8039-44cc961a47b8&DisplayLang=en > >- Thee Chicago Wolf Thanks, but this is actually the update that seems to have caused the problem. I installed that update on the 20th, and then couldn't boot. I've been wrestling with this problem since then. I already backed this out by copying back the bthport.sys file saved in the uninstall folder (date is 4/13/08 as opposed to 6/13/08). Thanks tbone
Guest Thee Chicago Wolf Posted June 26, 2008 Posted June 26, 2008 Re: Problem with MS08-030 / bthport.sys?? What starts up after WLNOTIFY? >>Microsoft re-released this patch on the 19th. Grab it here: >>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=980bb421-950f-4825-8039-44cc961a47b8&DisplayLang=en >> >>- Thee Chicago Wolf > >Thanks, but this is actually the update that seems to have caused the >problem. I installed that update on the 20th, and then couldn't boot. >I've been wrestling with this problem since then. > >I already backed this out by copying back the bthport.sys file saved >in the uninstall folder (date is 4/13/08 as opposed to 6/13/08). > >Thanks >tbone Any odd messages in your event viewer that may clue you in to causes outside of the BT driver? - Thee Chicago Wolf
Guest tbone Posted June 27, 2008 Posted June 27, 2008 Re: Problem with MS08-030 / bthport.sys?? What starts up after WLNOTIFY? My apologies to anyone on this trail. I couldn't futz with it any longer. I reverted to a backup and that eliminated the problem. I may never know (I can only hope!). tbone
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