My laptop's about 2 years old. It's a P3, 700mhz 256 RAM. Anyway, it was working fine until two days ago, when I get this message on my screen that says the system is being shut down. It said the Recall Procedure Call (RPC) was the problem. Then it did a countdown from 1 minute and told me to shut everything down and save all of my work before the computer shuts down. It's been doing that maybe every hour to 3 hours I have the computer on. What could be the problem, and what in the world does the RPC mean? Thank you so much, in advance.

Paul

 

Your computer is infected with the recent worm that's going around.

Go get the security patch from Microsoft ASAP.

 

I'd like to know what OS you have Paul. 98?

 

I have XP Pro. Ok, I found what the problem is and fixed it(hopefully). If any of you have the same "symptoms," look at this link. It's off of honda-tech.com

http://www.honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=585964

It seems like quite a few people have this. Maybe there should be a sticky for this, mods.

 

no sticky, read the ing news. it's only been plastered all over it for the past week.

 

If your machine keeps shutting down before you are able to do anything, click

"Start"->Run

and type

"cmd"

and hit enter.

At the command prompt type "shutdown /a"

This cancels the shutdown and lets you gain control of the machine long enough to patch it.