mikesg

Well, I am up and running with no kicks. Thanks very much for your assistance. I played for about 10 minutes without being kicked, but had to disconnect because my other half was raising hell. Anyway, I believe my problem is solved.

Followed your instructions. Not really clear on one part. Once I enable the "run as administrator" in the compatibility mode, Everything is fine, then I run the program. Do I select the uninstall option and then the default option, or do I just go ahead with the default option "Install/Reinstall punkbuster service" ? Either way, I ran the default option of Install/reinstall, and Here is what I got: Checking user is Administrator OK Checking Administrator privileges OK Opening Service Control Manager OK Searching for PnkBstrA Found - OK Extracting PnkBstrA service OK Verifying service authenticity OK Installing PunkBuster service OK Installed at "C:\Windows\system32\PnkBstrA.exe" Checking PunkBuster service status STOPPED Starting PunkBuster service OK Adding firewall rule for PnkBstrA ERROR Installation Finished. Please click "Next" to test the PunkBuster services. ---------------------------------------------------------------- I assume I got an error, simply because I don't have a firewall, and the windows firewall service is stopped. I clicked "Next" to test the PunkBuster services: Starting PunkBuster Service Tests (v0.986) (12/05/07 18:24:28) Checking OS Windows NT 6.0 (build 6000) 32-bit Checking PnkBstrA service status RUNNING Checking PnkBstrA Version OK (1029) Extracting "PnkBstrB.exe" to: "C:\Users\MIKE\AppData\Roaming\PnkBstrB.exe" OK Checking firewall settings ERROR Checking if PnkBstrB is running NOT RUNNING Getting port for PnkBstrA OK (44301) Opening socket for packet send OK Sending version packet to PnkBstrA SENT Receiving version from PnkBstrA OK Received 6 bytes from 127.0.0.1:44301 Response = 7052 (ms) Version = v1029 Getting PnkBstrB install instance OK Sending start packet to PnkBstrA SENT Waiting for packet from PnkBstrA OK Received 3 bytes from 127.0.0.1:44301 Response = 11076 (ms) PnkBstrB started. Load SUCCESSFUL. Watching for PnkBstrB instance change (4) CHANGED (5) Getting port for PnkBstrB OK (45301) Sending version packet to PnkBstrB SENT Receiving version from PnkBstrB OK Received 5 bytes from 127.0.0.1:45301 Response = 0 (ms) Version = 1806 Checking PnkBstrK driver status NOT FOUND Extracting new PnkBstrK to: "C:\Users\MIKE\AppData\Roaming\PnkBstrK.sys" OK Sending load packet to PnkBstrB SENT Checking PnkBstrK driver status RUNNING Stopping PnkBstrK STOPPED Deleting PnkBstrK OK Checking PnkBstrK driver status DELETED Manually stopping PnkBstrB STOPPED Removing test PnkBstrB file OK ---------------------------------- Tests finished. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Got a popup that stated "Tests completed without errors" I clicked okay on the popup and then clicked finish. I'm not sure what to make of it, but I have already run this before I posted. I will run the game and see what happens. What, if you know, ports do punkbuster's services use. I haven't found anything on this and I will poke holes in my router just to be on the safe side if this is what is causing it, which I doubt since I haven't changed anything... but it is possible there was a firmware upgrade since I have it set to automatically upgrade firmware. Thanks for your help and we'll see what happens.

Yeah me too. I was getting kicked for this: I restored my computer to the earliest possible time, and used the pbsetup.exe from evenbalance to install punkbuster again, and I added the two games: America's Army and Call of Duty 4; And rebooted. Now I am getting kicked for this: -IRC-MIKE Punkbuster kicked player '-IRC-MIKE' (For 0 minutes)...Violaiton (COMFAIL)#132 I have no idea how to fix it and the next thing I can think of is to uninstall COD4 and reinstall the game, but before I do I am waiting on a response on my trouble ticket that I have submitted to evenbalance.