Funny thing happening with my Windows 2000 Server

December 27, 2007

Ok, here is the deal. We have had this Windows 2000 server running for the

past 2.5 years. All of a sudden, with nothing added or loaded on the

machine, it started to spontaneously freeze up on us. Now I have done a

check on all drives, memory, motherboard, power supply so it isn't a

hardware issue. What is weird is the first indicator is people being kicked

out of Terminal Services and not being able to log back in. All the lights

are on the server and everything is spinning correctly and the monitor is

not showing anything weird, but the only way to restablish connections

again, is to reboot the server. I have looked at the Terminal Services

Manager and it shows no one attached. We did have an issue a month ago with

McAfee Enterprise running scans and locking up, but I have since removed

that so that isn't an issue. It is frustrating the hell out of me and

hopefully someone can steer me in the right direction.

Additionally, there is no indication of errors leading up to the server

stopping, the error logs act like they just restarted the system.

Thanks

Paul Clemmons

PC Networks

December 28, 2007

Re: Funny thing happening with my Windows 2000 Server

In news:e9SDEGOSIHA.4888@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl,

Paul Clemmons <pclemmons@pcnetworkswa.com> typed:

> Ok, here is the deal. We have had this Windows 2000 server running

> for the past 2.5 years. All of a sudden, with nothing added or

> loaded on the machine, it started to spontaneously freeze up on us. Now I

> have done a check on all drives, memory, motherboard, power

> supply so it isn't a hardware issue. What is weird is the first

> indicator is people being kicked out of Terminal Services and not

> being able to log back in. All the lights are on the server and

> everything is spinning correctly and the monitor is not showing

> anything weird, but the only way to restablish connections again, is

> to reboot the server. I have looked at the Terminal Services Manager

> and it shows no one attached. We did have an issue a month ago with

> McAfee Enterprise running scans and locking up, but I have since

> removed that so that isn't an issue. It is frustrating the hell out

> of me and hopefully someone can steer me in the right direction.

> Additionally, there is no indication of errors leading up to the

> server stopping, the error logs act like they just restarted the

> system.

> Thanks

> Paul Clemmons

> PC Networks

Bad drive or it's going? No errors show up in any of the Event logs? Try to

look back to see if there are any ATAPI errors or warnings. Try disabling

third party stuff such as antivirus, antispyware, firewalls, and anything

else you can think of and see if that will run awhile.

--

Regards,

Ace

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Ace Fekay, MCSE 2003 & 2000, MCSA 2003 & 2000, MCSE+I, MCT,

MVP Microsoft MVP - Directory Services

Microsoft Certified Trainer

Infinite Diversities in Infinite Combinations

December 28, 2007

Re: Funny thing happening with my Windows 2000 Server

I looked back 4 weeks of error logs, no disk or ATAPI errors to be found.

Nothing is running that is non Microsoft other than their main application,

which is what the Terminal Services is used for. Like I mentioned, there is

nothing that I can see as a hardware error.

Paul

"Ace Fekay [MVP]" <PleaseAskMe@SomeDomain.com> wrote in message

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> In news:e9SDEGOSIHA.4888@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl,

> Paul Clemmons <pclemmons@pcnetworkswa.com> typed:

>> Ok, here is the deal. We have had this Windows 2000 server running

>> for the past 2.5 years. All of a sudden, with nothing added or

>> loaded on the machine, it started to spontaneously freeze up on us. Now I

>> have done a check on all drives, memory, motherboard, power

>> supply so it isn't a hardware issue. What is weird is the first

>> indicator is people being kicked out of Terminal Services and not

>> being able to log back in. All the lights are on the server and

>> everything is spinning correctly and the monitor is not showing

>> anything weird, but the only way to restablish connections again, is

>> to reboot the server. I have looked at the Terminal Services Manager

>> and it shows no one attached. We did have an issue a month ago with

>> McAfee Enterprise running scans and locking up, but I have since

>> removed that so that isn't an issue. It is frustrating the hell out

>> of me and hopefully someone can steer me in the right direction.

>> Additionally, there is no indication of errors leading up to the

>> server stopping, the error logs act like they just restarted the

>> system.

>> Thanks

>> Paul Clemmons

>> PC Networks

>

> Bad drive or it's going? No errors show up in any of the Event logs? Try

> to look back to see if there are any ATAPI errors or warnings. Try

> disabling third party stuff such as antivirus, antispyware, firewalls, and

> anything else you can think of and see if that will run awhile.

>

> --

> Regards,

> Ace

>

> This posting is provided "AS-IS" with no warranties or guarantees and

> confers no rights.

>

> Ace Fekay, MCSE 2003 & 2000, MCSA 2003 & 2000, MCSE+I, MCT,

> MVP Microsoft MVP - Directory Services

> Microsoft Certified Trainer

>

> Infinite Diversities in Infinite Combinations

>

December 28, 2007

Re: Funny thing happening with my Windows 2000 Server

In news:Ojn9faOSIHA.1208@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl,

Paul Clemmons <pclemmons@pcnetworkswa.com> typed:

> I looked back 4 weeks of error logs, no disk or ATAPI errors to be

> found. Nothing is running that is non Microsoft other than their main

> application, which is what the Terminal Services is used for. Like I

> mentioned, there is nothing that I can see as a hardware error.

> Paul

RAM can cause this too without warning or signs. Do you have some RAM you

can swap out to test it? Sometimes a third party browser plug in can cause

it too. Numerous things can cause a server to reboot without warning,

however unfortunately difficult to track unless you can look back and ask

yourself what changed since it started happening.

Check this out to see what I mean:

http://www.google.com/search?q=server+reboots+without+warning&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7ITVA

Could also be an undetected virus or spyware. Have you run a full AV scan

and a full antispyware scan? Besides recommending to install Windows

Defender, Webroot makes a great antispyware product to run along side

Defender.

Ace

December 28, 2007

Re: Funny thing happening with my Windows 2000 Server

do you have any other remote connectivity tools installed such as RADMIN or VNC - i have seen this in the past but it was because we had term services for session bases connectivity but we also had RADMIN for Console access and RADMIN was the culprit.

"Paul Clemmons" <pclemmons@pcnetworkswa.com> wrote in message news:e9SDEGOSIHA.4888@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

> Ok, here is the deal. We have had this Windows 2000 server running for the

> past 2.5 years. All of a sudden, with nothing added or loaded on the

> machine, it started to spontaneously freeze up on us. Now I have done a

> check on all drives, memory, motherboard, power supply so it isn't a

> hardware issue. What is weird is the first indicator is people being kicked

> out of Terminal Services and not being able to log back in. All the lights

> are on the server and everything is spinning correctly and the monitor is

> not showing anything weird, but the only way to restablish connections

> again, is to reboot the server. I have looked at the Terminal Services

> Manager and it shows no one attached. We did have an issue a month ago with

> McAfee Enterprise running scans and locking up, but I have since removed

> that so that isn't an issue. It is frustrating the hell out of me and

> hopefully someone can steer me in the right direction.

>

> Additionally, there is no indication of errors leading up to the server

> stopping, the error logs act like they just restarted the system.

>

> Thanks

> Paul Clemmons

> PC Networks

>

December 28, 2007

Re: Funny thing happening with my Windows 2000 Server

I did just remove RealVNC from the system after this last crash. It wasn't allowing me in anyway so I took it out.

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