Browser Service Has Hung and Other TCP/IP Errors

 Last reviewed: May 16, 1997
Article ID: Q117360
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Windows NT operating system version 3.1
  • Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server version 3.1

SYMPTOMS

When you use Streams-based TCP/IP with Windows NT 3.1 running Service Pack 2 on a symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) computer, you may receive an error message on startup stating that the Browser Service has stopped responding or is hung. Other errors operating over the TCP/IP transport also occur at this point.

CAUSE

At times during initialization of the Streams-based TCP/IP transport on Windows NT 3.1 on a multiprocessor computer, a scheduling group was getting incorrectly marked as scheduled when it had not been scheduled. This could usually be worked around by exchanging the Service Pack 2 version of STREAMS.SYS with the version from the initial release of Windows NT.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT and Windows NT Advanced Server version 3.1. This problem has been corrected in the latest U.S. Service Pack for Windows NT and Windows NT Advanced Server version 3.1. For information on obtaining the Service Pack, query on the following word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces): 

   S E R V P A C K

Additional query words: prodnt streams hang tcpip multi-processor
error code 7022
Keywords : kbbug3.10 kbnetwork NTSrvWkst nttcp
Version : 3.1
Platform : WINDOWS

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Last reviewed: May 16, 1997
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