DHCP Client service error

[darkwraith007]

Hello everyone,

I humbly request some help with my issue, and I will do my best to describe it herein.

Stats:

nLite v1.4 beta

DSL Connection which required DHCP

LastSession.ini will be copied and pasted below

I created an install with nLite, and everything goes wonderfully, installed and ready to go, or so I thought.

I go to modify my services and I notice that the "DHCP Client" service refuses to start, even when placed in Automatic and even after rebooting.

If I try to manually start it, I get an error about 'dependencies' not being ready, something like that.

To my knowledge, DHCP Client has the following 'dependencies'

-AFD (no clue)

-NetBios over TCP/IP

-TCP/IP Protocol Driver

-IPSEC Driver

My LastSession.ini is pasted below, please if anyone can help me figure out what I removed that messed things up and prevents this service from loading, I can very quickly just modify my install and leave everything else as-is, saving me a bit of time at least. Any sections not listed in this .ini were blank/unused.

[Main]

Env = 1.4 beta - 2.0.50727.42.Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2

Target = Windows XP Home Edition SP:2 - 5.1.2600.2180 - English (United States)

[Tasks]

Remove Components

Unattended Setup

Tweaks

Create a Bootable ISO

Options

[Components]

;# Applications #

Accessibility Options

Briefcase

Calculator

Charmap

ClipBook Viewer

Games

Internet Games

Paint

Pinball

Screensavers

Wordpad

;# Drivers #

Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)

Cameras and Camcorders

Display Adapters

Display Adapters (old)

Ethernet (LAN)

IBM PS/2 TrackPoint

IBM Thinkpad

Logitech WingMan

Microsoft SideWinder

Modems

MultiFunctional

Portable Audio

Printers

Scanners

Serial Pen Tablet

Sony Jog Dial

Sound Controllers

Tape drives

Toshiba DVD decoder card

Wireless Ethernet (WLAN)

;# Hardware Support #

ALI 1535 SMBus Host Controller

ALI IDE Controller

Brother Devices

CMD PCI IDE Controller

CPU AMD

CPU Transmeta Crusoe

Firewire Network support

Gravis Digital GamePort

Iomega Zip drive

Multi-port serial adapters

Smart Cards

Sony Memory Stick

Toshiba PCI IDE Controller

VIA PCI IDE Controller

Windows CE USB Host

;# Keyboards #

Albanian keyboard

Armenian Eastern keyboard

Armenian Western keyboard

Azeri Cyrillic keyboard

Azeri Latin keyboard

Belarusian keyboard

Belgian (Comma) keyboard

Belgian (Period) keyboard

Belgian French keyboard

Bengali (Inscript) keyboard

Bengali keyboard

Bosnian keyboard

Bulgarian (Latin) keyboard

Bulgarian keyboard

Canadian French (Legacy) keyboard

Canadian French keyboard

Canadian Multilingual Standard keyboard

Chinese (Simplified) - Microsoft Pinyin IME 3.0 keyboard

Chinese (Simplified) - NeiMa keyboard

Chinese (Simplified) - QuanPin keyboard

Chinese (Simplified) - ShuangPin keyboard

Chinese (Simplified) - US Keyboard keyboard

Chinese (Simplified) - ZhengMa keyboard

Chinese (Traditional) - Alphanumeric keyboard

Chinese (Traditional) - Array keyboard

Chinese (Traditional) - Big5 Code keyboard

Chinese (Traditional) - ChangJie keyboard

Chinese (Traditional) - DaYi keyboard

Chinese (Traditional) - New ChangJie keyboard

Chinese (Traditional) - New Phonetic keyboard

Chinese (Traditional) - Phonetic keyboard

Chinese (Traditional) - Quick keyboard

Chinese (Traditional) - Unicode keyboard

Chinese (Traditional) - US Keyboard keyboard

Croatian keyboard

Czech (QWERTY) keyboard

Czech keyboard

Czech Programmers keyboard

Danish keyboard

Devanagari - INSCRIPT keyboard

Divehi Phonetic keyboard

Divehi Typewriter keyboard

Dutch keyboard

Estonian keyboard

Faeroese keyboard

Farsi keyboard

Finnish keyboard

Finnish with Sami keyboard

FYRO Macedonian keyboard

Gaelic keyboard

Georgian keyboard

Greek (220) keyboard

Greek (220) Latin keyboard

Greek (319) keyboard

Greek (319) Latin keyboard

Greek keyboard

Greek Latin keyboard

Greek Polytonic keyboard

Gujarati keyboard

Hebrew keyboard

Hindi Traditional keyboard

Hungarian 101-key keyboard

Hungarian keyboard

Icelandic keyboard

Irish keyboard

Japanese Input System (MS-IME2002) keyboard

Japanese keyboard

Kannada keyboard

Kazakh keyboard

Korean Input System (IME 2000) keyboard

Korean keyboard

Kyrgyz Cyrillic keyboard

Latin American keyboard

Latvian (QWERTY) keyboard

Latvian keyboard

Lithuanian IBM keyboard

Lithuanian keyboard

Malayalam keyboard

Maltese 47-key keyboard

Maltese 48-key keyboard

Maori keyboard

Marathi keyboard

Mongolian Cyrillic keyboard

Norwegian keyboard

Norwegian with Sami keyboard

Polish (214) keyboard

Polish (Programmers) keyboard

Portuguese (Brazilian ABNT) keyboard

Portuguese (Brazilian ABNT2) keyboard

Portuguese keyboard

Romanian keyboard

Russian (Typewriter) keyboard

Russian keyboard

Sami Extended Finland-Sweden keyboard

Sami Extended Norway keyboard

Serbian (Cyrillic) keyboard

Serbian (Latin) keyboard

Slovak (QWERTY) keyboard

Slovak keyboard

Slovenian keyboard

Swedish keyboard

Swedish with Sami keyboard

Swiss French keyboard

Swiss German keyboard

Syriac keyboard

Syriac Phonetic keyboard

Tamil keyboard

Tatar keyboard

Telugu keyboard

Thai Kedmanee (non-ShiftLock) keyboard

Thai Kedmanee keyboard

Thai Pattachote (non-ShiftLock) keyboard

Thai Pattachote keyboard

Turkish F keyboard

Turkish Q keyboard

Ukrainian keyboard

United Kingdom Extended keyboard

United Kingdom keyboard

United States-Dvorak for left hand keyboard

Uzbek Cyrillic keyboard

Vietnamese keyboard

;# Languages #

;Arabic

Arabic (Algeria)

Arabic (Bahrain)

Arabic (Egypt)

Arabic (Iraq)

Arabic (Jordan)

Arabic (Kuwait)

Arabic (Lebanon)

Arabic (Libya)

Arabic (Morocco)

Arabic (Oman)

Arabic (Qatar)

Arabic (Saudi Arabia)

Arabic (Syria)

Arabic (Tunisia)

Arabic (U.A.E.)

Arabic (Yemen)

Divehi (Maldives)

Syriac (Syria)

Urdu

;Armenian

Armenian

;Baltic

Estonian

Latvian

Lithuanian

;Central Europe

Albanian

Bosnian (Latin, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Croatian

Croatian (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Czech

Hungarian

Polish

Romanian

Serbian (Latin)

Serbian (Latin, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Slovak

Slovenian

;Cyrillic

Azeri (Cyrillic)

Belarusian

Bulgarian

FYRO Macedonian

Kazakh

Kyrgyz (Kyrgyzstan)

Mongolian (Mongolia)

Russian

Serbian (Cyrillic)

Serbian (Cyrillic, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Tatar

Ukrainian

Uzbek (Cyrillic)

;Georgian

Georgian

;Greek

Greek

;Hebrew

Hebrew

;Indic

Bengali (India)

Gujarati (India)

Hindi

Kannada (India)

Konkani

Malayalam (India)

Marathi

Punjabi (India)

Sanskrit

Tamil

Telugu (India)

;Japanese

Japanese

;Korean

Korean

;Simplified Chinese

Chinese (PRC)

Chinese (Singapore)

;Thai

Farsi

Thai

;Traditional Chinese

Chinese (Hong Kong S.A.R.)

Chinese (Macau S.A.R.)

Chinese (Taiwan)

;Turkic

Azeri (Latin)

Turkish

Uzbek (Latin)

;Vietnamese

Vietnamese

;Western Europe and United States

Afrikaans

Basque

Catalan

Danish

Dutch (Belgium)

Dutch (Netherlands)

English (Australia)

English (Belize)

English (Canada)

English (Caribbean)

English (Ireland)

English (Jamaica)

English (New Zealand)

English (Philippines)

English (South Africa)

English (Trinidad)

English (United Kingdom)

English (Zimbabwe)

Faeroese

Finnish

French (Belgium)

French (Canada)

French (France)

French (Luxembourg)

French (Monaco)

French (Switzerland)

Galician (Spain)

German (Austria)

German (Germany)

German (Liechtenstein)

German (Luxembourg)

German (Switzerland)

Icelandic

Indonesian

Italian (Italy)

Italian (Switzerland)

Malay (Brunei Darussalam)

Malay (Malaysia)

Maltese

Maori

Northern Sotho

Norwegian (Bokmal)

Norwegian (Nynorsk)

Portuguese (Brazil)

Portuguese (Portugal)

Quechua (Bolivia)

Quechua (Ecuador)

Quechua (Peru)

Sami, Inari (Finland)

Sami, Lule (Norway)

Sami, Lule (Sweden)

Sami, Northern (Finland)

Sami, Northern (Norway)

Sami, Northern (Sweden)

Sami, Skolt (Finland)

Sami, Southern (Norway)

Sami, Southern (Sweden)

Spanish (Argentina)

Spanish (Bolivia)

Spanish (Chile)

Spanish (Colombia)

Spanish (Costa Rica)

Spanish (Dominican Republic)

Spanish (Ecuador)

Spanish (El Salvador)

Spanish (Guatemala)

Spanish (Honduras)

Spanish (International Sort)

Spanish (Mexico)

Spanish (Nicaragua)

Spanish (Panama)

Spanish (Paraguay)

Spanish (Peru)

Spanish (Puerto Rico)

Spanish (Traditional Sort)

Spanish (Uruguay)

Spanish (Venezuela)

Swahili

Swedish

Swedish (Finland)

Tswana

Welsh

Xhosa

Zulu

;# Multimedia #

ActiveX for streaming video

AOL ART Image Format Support

Images and Backgrounds

Intel Indeo codecs

Luna desktop theme

Mouse Cursors

Movie Maker

Music Samples

Old CDPlayer and Sound Recorder

Speech Support

Windows Media Player

Windows Media Player 6.4

Windows Picture and Fax Viewer

Windows Sounds

;# Network #

Active Directory Services

Communication tools

Comtrol Test Terminal Program

Connection Manager

FrontPage Extensions

Internet Connection Wizard

Internet Explorer

Internet Information Services (IIS)

IP Conferencing

MSMail and MAPI

MSN Explorer

Netmeeting

NetShell Cmd-Tool

Network Setup Wizard

NWLink IPX/SPX/NetBIOS Protocol

Outlook Express

Peer-to-Peer

Share Creation Wizard

Synchronization Manager

Vector Graphics Rendering (VML)

Web Folders

Windows Messenger

;# Operating System Options #

.NET Framework

Administrative Templates

Blaster/Nachi removal tool

Color Schemes

Command-line tools

Desktop Cleanup Wizard

Disk Cleanup

Document Templates

DR Watson

Extensible Storage Engine (Esent97)

Extra Fonts

FAT to NTFS converter

File and Settings Wizard

Help and Support

IExpress Wizard

Input Method Editor

Manual Install and Upgrade

MS Agent

MS XML 2.0

Out of Box Experience (OOBE)

Private Character Editor

Remote Installation Services (RIS)

Search Assistant

Security Center

Shell Media Handler

Symbolic Debugger (NTSD)

Tour

User account pictures

Visual Basic 5 runtime

Visual Basic 6 runtime

Visual Basic Scripting support

Web View

Zip Folders

;# Services #

Alerter

Application Layer Gateway

Automatic Updates

Distributed Link Tracking Client

Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC)

Error Reporting

Fax Service

HTTP SSL

IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service

Indexing Service

Internet Authentication (IAS)

IPSEC Policy Agent

Messenger

Net Logon

Network DDE

Remote Registry

Removable Storage

Route Listening Service

RPC Locator

Secondary Logon

Service Advertising Protocol

Simple TCP/IP Services

System Restore Service

TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper

Terminal Services

Universal Plug and Play Device Host

WebClient

Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)

;# Directories #

DOCS

SUPPORT

VALUEADD

;# Compatibility #

[KeepFiles]

ipconfig.exe

msconfig.exe

net.exe

netstat.exe

ping.exe

syskey.exe

[RemoveFiles]

clock.avi

yahoo.bmp

swtchbrd.bmp

[Options]

CABMerge

ClassicSetup

BlackSetupBack

DisableFreereq

DisableMinMem

DupeFiles

ProfilesDir = "%SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings"

TargetPath = "WINDOWS"

temp_dir = %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp

NoKeepCp

RemoveMUI

CleanBiosInfo

AdvTweaks

[Patches]

TcpIp = 16777215

UsbPoll = 1000

DoUxTheme

DoSFC

[services2]

AppMgmt,3

BITS,4

EventSystem,4

COMSysApp,4

Browser,4

CryptSvc,3

DHCP,2

DNSCACHE,2

Eventlog,2

HidServ,4

dmserver,3

dmadmin,3

SwPrv,3

Netman,2

NLA,2

xmlprov,4

NtLmSsp,4

SysmonLog,4

PlugPlay,2

Spooler,4

ProtectedStorage,4

RSVP,4

RasAuto,4

RasMan,4

RemoteAccess,4

SamSs,3

LanmanServer,4

SENS,4

Schedule,4

TapiSrv,4

Themes,4

UPS,4

VSS,3

AudioSrv,2

StiSvc,3

MSIServer,3

winmgmt,2

W32Time,3

NetBT,4

WZCSVC,4

WmiApSrv,4

LanmanWorkstation,4

[Tweaks]

Boot and Shutdown-Auto-End tasks immediately

Boot and Shutdown-Auto-Kill hung applications immediately

Boot and Shutdown-Auto-Kill hung services immediately

Boot and Shutdown-Ctrl-Alt-Del at logon-Enabled

Boot and Shutdown-Disable automatic restart on System Failure

Boot and Shutdown-Disable logging on System Failure

Boot and Shutdown-Disable saving Last Good state at boot

Boot and Shutdown-Do not Parse Autoexec.bat

Boot and Shutdown-Logon Page-Classic

Boot and Shutdown-Numlock-Off

Boot and Shutdown-Setup Prefetch-Cache-Disabled

Boot and Shutdown-Show Administrator on the Welcome Screen

Boot and Shutdown-Status Messages-Extended

Desktop-Desktop icons size-16

Desktop-My Computer icon-Show

Desktop-My Documents icon-Show

Desktop-My Network Places icon-Hide

Desktop-Recycle Bin icon-Show

Desktop-Show Windows version on Desktop

Desktop-Wrap icon titles-Enable

Explorer-Add (un)register libraries in Context Menu

Explorer-Advanced Search: preconfigure options

Explorer-Change Windows Explorer folder view-Details

Explorer-Classic Control Panel

Explorer-Disable Prefix: Shortcut to

Explorer-Display the contents of system folders

Explorer-Preset Places Bar to-Desktop, My Computer, My Network Places, C:, D:

Explorer-Show Drive Letters in front of Drive Names

Explorer-Show extensions of known file-types

Explorer-Show hidden files and folders

Explorer-Show protected operating system files

Explorer-Show Statusbar in all windows

Explorer-Show the full path in the Address Bar

Explorer-Show the full path in the Title Bar

Internet Explorer-Disable Download Complete notification

Internet Explorer-Disable Go Button

Internet Explorer-Disable information bar when popup is blocked

Internet Explorer-Disable Internet Explorer link creation

Internet Explorer-Disable Market Place bookmark

Internet Explorer-Disable Media Player 6.4 created bookmarks

Internet Explorer-Disable Password-Caching

Internet Explorer-Disable sound when popup is blocked

Internet Explorer-Enable Google URL-Search

Internet Explorer-Keep IE URL-History for-0 Days

Internet Explorer-Set Homepage-about:blank

Internet Explorer-Set IE-Cache limit to-8 MB

Internet Explorer-Set Internet Explorer to accept 10 connects at a time

Internet Explorer-Set popup-blocker to high

My Computer-Add Registry Editor to Context Menu

My Computer-Remove Search from Context Menu

My Computer-Remove Shared Documents

Network-Disable administrative shares

Network-Disable automatic search for network folders and printers

Network-Disable DCOM protocol bindings

Network-Disable DNS failure cache

Network-Disable extra SMB notify-change traffic

Network-Disable LAN-Manager from caching passwords

Network-Disable LM HOSTS lookup

Network-Disable Microsoft-DS (close port 445 TCP/UDP)

Network-Disable restoring mapped network drives on logon

Network-Disable Simple File Sharing

Network-Hide PC in Workgroups/Domains

Network-Remove remote-computer NameSpace

Network-Set TCP/IP Priority to 1

Performance-Disable Info Tips on Files and Folders

Performance-Disable Last accessed Timestamp on files

Performance-Disable Optimize harddisk when idle

Performance-Disable paging of kernel and core-os

Performance-Disable Tracking of Broken Shortcut Links

Performance-Disable Warn on low disk space

Performance-Disable WBEM logging

Performance-Do not cache thumbnails

Performance-Enable USB Idle Endpoint support

Performance-Minimal Power Management

Performance-Processor scheduling-Programs

Performance-Run 16-bit Windows applications in a separate process

Performance-Use Windows classic folders / No Tasks Sidepanel

Privacy-Disable Driver Update Internet prompt

Privacy-Disable File MRU-List

Privacy-Disable Tracking of most used programs

Privacy-Remove Alexa

Security-Always show Updates under Software

Security-Disable DCOM

Security-Disable Screensaver

Security-Disable Web Open With prompt

Security-Disable Windows Script Host (WSH)

Security-Screensaver Password-Protection-Disabled

Start Menu-Clear most recently opened documents list on logoff

Start Menu-Control Panel-Display as a menu

Start Menu-Disable and remove Documents list from the Start Menu

Start Menu-Disable Highlight newly installed programs

Start Menu-Disable popup on first boot

Start Menu-Do not use Personalized Menus

Start Menu-Hide Search button in Start Panel

Start Menu-My Computer-Don't display this item

Start Menu-My Documents-Don't display this item

Start Menu-My Music-Don't display this item

Start Menu-My Network Places-Don't display this item

Start Menu-My Pictures-Don't display this item

Start Menu-Network Connections-Link to Network Connections folder

Start Menu-Number of programs on Start menu-30

Start Menu-Printers and Faxes-Display as a link

Start Menu-Reduce popup delay

Start Menu-Remove Pinned Apps List from Start Panel

Start Menu-Remove Search the Internet from Search

Start Menu-Remove Set Program Access and Defaults

Start Menu-Remove User name

Start Menu-Remove Windows Catalog shortcut

Start Menu-Use small icons in Start Panel

Taskbar-Disable Hide inactive icons

Taskbar-Disable Language-Bar

Taskbar-Lock the Taskbar-Yes

Visual Effects-Active window tracking-Disable

Visual Effects-Active window tracking speed-Slow

Visual Effects-Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing-Disable

Visual Effects-Combo box animation-Disable

Visual Effects-Cursor shadow-Disable

Visual Effects-Display mouse pointer trails-Disable

Visual Effects-Fade out selection-Disable

Visual Effects-Gradient captions in windows-Disable

Visual Effects-Keyboard shortcut underline-Enable

Visual Effects-Menu animation-Disable

Visual Effects-Menu shadows-Disable

Visual Effects-Menu style-Flat

Visual Effects-Show translucent selection rectangle-Disable

Visual Effects-Show window contents while dragging-Disable

Visual Effects-Slide taskbar buttons-Disable

Visual Effects-Smooth edges of screen fonts-Standard

Visual Effects-Smooth-scroll list boxes-Enable

Visual Effects-Tooltip animation-Disable

Visual Effects-Use a background image for each folder type-Disable

Visual Effects-Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop-Disable

[unattended]

ComputerType = ACPI Multiprocessor PC

HibernationNo

LogonCount = 1

MaximumDataStorePercentOfDisk = 12

RestorePointLife = 30

DefaultThemesOff

DefaultStartPanelOff

DesktopTheme = Windows Classic|Windows Classic style|Normal

AutoUDay = 5

AutoUHour = 15

ProgFilesPath = "\Program Files"

CustomNetwork

NOMS_MSClient

NOMS_SERVER

NOMS_PSched

[NetAdapter1]

connname = ""

macaddress = ""

ipaddress = "192.168.0.1"

subnetmask = "255.255.255.0"

defaultgateway = ""

dnsserver1 = ""

dnsserver2 = ""

winsserver = ""

netbiossetting = "2"

ipxnetworknumber = "00000000"

ipxnetworkframetype = "0xFF"

Thank you for your time, everyone!

Have a blessed New Years!

[mysticalone]

Try this, Start -> run, type in "devmgmt.msc" without quotes and Device Manager should come up. On the toolbar click View and select "Show hidden devices". Then in the list below expand "Non-plug and play" and find each one of the dependencies in the "NP&P" right-click, choose properties, then choose the "Driver" tab and make sure the "Startup Type" is set to "System" and click start in the "Current Status" area.

[darkwraith007]

IT WORKED! =D

Turns out the culprit was (as I suspected) disabling/removing NETBIOS over TCP/IP. That one was in the non-PnP though and I enabled it as you said, and now the internet works! I'm just glad that somehow it was still in the install and not removed. Thanks!

In the future I'd advise anyone to NOT remove anything NETBIOS related and just disable it if you need to, AFTER you install your internet.

[lsrkin]

-deleted-

Edited May 30, 2008 by lsrkin

[TranceEnergy]

I usually always disabled/remove netbios, and such things i dont need. Alway worked fine here.

I think perhaps your tcp/ip sync limit is a bit high tho, do you really need 16million half-opened connections opened per second?

Sounds a bit excessive, even for me. Pre SP1 limit on xp was 65536 and is more then enough.

[Udedenkz]

Hmmm... I don't remember registering here before, well nonetheless.

You can modify the registry to disable / remove the STUPID DHCP dependencies and get it to work. Although, Nlite should remove these dependencies automatically - mayhap make it a registry tweak - remove DHCP Client dependencies.

[tomzi]

I had the same problem, and the solution described in post #2 worked perfectly. The culprit was the netbios driver. I did, however, not change the tcp/ip sync limit, therefore I think it probably doesn't matter.

I also noticed something I don't find perfectly logical: using the same settings for removing drivers and services, but changing the service startup states, sometimes the netbios driver startup would be set to system, sometimes to disabled. When I left the startup state for services all on default, the netbios driver would be configured to startup automatically, when, however, I changed several services (dhcp disabled, etc), the netbios driver would be disabled by default. I couldn't pinpoint the settings for exactly which services had an effect on the driver startup state, I stopped searching for it when I found out how to solve the issue.

Edited June 11, 2008 by tomzi