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  • 1.  PXE Service constant crashes

    Posted Apr 17, 2007 05:37 PM
    Im using a simple setup by loading booting to the network from a PXE boot image to DOS then running the DOS Ghost to load the images, simple yet efficient for our setup. The problem I'm running into is that the Symantec PXE Service crashes constantly with the exact same error.
     
    The instruction at "0x7c9111e0" referenced memory at "0x00696469". The memory could not be "read"
     
    The strange part is on the initial system I set this up on was a basic dell desktop just for testing. Then some time later it went to a Dual Xeon Server with 4 Gigs of ram and 400Gigs of free HDD. That server has since come off lease and we decided it was a little overkill, now it is running on a 3.06 Intel P4D desktop. First was XP Pro, Second was Server 2003, third is XP Pro. All have had the same error no matter what I do.  On the server 2003 I had the luck of a workaround for it. Startup at the console with the local admin account (this was for the error messages to go to) then I logged in to a Terminal Server Session with my network account (Admin privileges) and Started a batch file that looped every 10 seconds and attempted to start the PXE Service  again.  If errorlevel 0 was returned I had restarted the pxe service (doing a net start) and then I had to make it stop and restart the MTFTP service as well for it to transfer the images. Very messy but it worked. Every couple of days I would just pull up the Administrator account at the console and clear out 15-20 error screens of this same message). (or just reboot it)   Jump to now, and On the XP Pro system I cannot do this. I've tried to run the batch file as a background service by using a scheduled task as another admin account on the local PC (and it runs fine) but when the error message pops up on the current logged in account and this causes the whole shebang to just seem to pause. Once "OK" is clicked on the error message, the Batch is then able to reset it and it works, (for a little while).