Pnkbstrb communication failure

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13. July 2008 - 11:30
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Ok, so ive got quake3 some weeks ago from a torrent, installed pointrelease and pb + update@pb

Both processes are running in the task manager. processes : pnkbstrA and pnkbstrB

Ive restarted them several times in teh services window(control panel), but i still got the problem as in the screen below.

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13. July 2008 - 11:39
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well as its with black and its kinda hard to read it here it goes :

thc*kraster punkbuster kicked player 't7300a'(for 0 minutes)

Restriction : Service Communication failure pnkbstrb?exe driver failure (pnkbstrk?sys) ffab

some letters after

and then punkbuster client removing : same thing.

Please Help!

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13. July 2008 - 15:16
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another screen

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13. July 2008 - 19:39
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Pnkbstrb communication failure

I would go for the downloaded torrent version to be the cause of problem... If u want, add me to msn and we can discuss it

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10. August 2008 - 16:47
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bump .

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10. August 2008 - 17:53
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Thanks to the lovely leade of THC, also known as Mr Fate the problem is solved. Had to delete pnkbstr.sys from system32/drivers folder .

Thanks again .

You can lock the topic if u want now . Over and out!

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11. September 2008 - 19:31
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same problem .. need help

thnx

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11. September 2008 - 21:42
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delete PB folder
update PB from scratch with pbsetup
get pbsvc from here: http://www.evenbalance.com/downloads/pbsvc/pbsvc.exe
see what happens

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11. September 2008 - 21:47
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yep PBsetub working, just Add game find Q3A than Check for updates, etc.

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12. September 2008 - 9:14
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its fucked up ..ive deleted+install then used that tool u gave me and when it does its checking at a point the computer restarts.. did it twice..same result.. as far as i got it from the log it was after pnkbstrk driver stopped, pnkbstrk deleted, one more row and ok and then restarted..dunno if its pnkbstrk but smth similliar.. i mean related to the problem i got.. should i deleete it first from safe mode and then turn back to windows so wont get me restarted?

thnx for ur help btw

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12. September 2008 - 14:46
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u might try deinstall and update on safe mode.

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