Windows Server 2003 Crash, No BSOD, No Event Log, No Minidump

[Guest Steve Dowling]

I have an HP Proliant server running Windows 2003 Enterprise and SQL Server

2005 which is crashing occasionally and leaving no trace of the crash other

than an event log entry saying that the previous system shutdown was

unexpected.

 

The only way I have found to trigger the crash is by running a full scandisk

on the secondary partition which is a RAID 5 array made up of 4 300GB

drives. This makes me think that it may be a problem with the SCSI

controller but I'm not sure how to diagnose this.

 

I've managed to run scandisk in DOS mode without any problems being found

and the HP diagnostics tools report that there are no issues with the RAID

array.

 

Does anyone have any ideas?

 

Regards,

Steve