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- From: tad@wrq.com (Tad Marshall)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Subject: Re: network-service-errors
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.234719.8129@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 23:47:19 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.1992Dec12.234719.8129
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- In article <strobl.723933747@gmd.de> strobl@gmd.de (Wolfgang Strobl) writes:
- >>E1068: The dependency service or group failed to start.
- >>occured on starting any service.
- >
- >In short: I got that message too (what does it mean, anyway?).
- >It seems to be related to the network card. Using a different,
- >newer card solved the problem.
-
- NT likes to do various things on an as-needed basis, postponing execution
- until it is actually required. The theory is that it may never be required,
- so you can save time and memory by waiting. The network components work this
- way ... the network driver isn't actually started until some higher protocol
- layer demands it, even when everything is configured.
-
- So what happens is that some higher protocol layer tries to start, sees that
- it has no network driver, and tries to start the network driver as a
- "dependency service". The network driver fails to start for some reason, and
- you get the "dependency service failed to start" message.
-
- Fix your adapter/driver problem, and the message will go away.
-
- -- Tad
-