2003 Server hangs on shutdown w/KVM

[Guest Peter]

I have a number of 2003-R2 (SP2) servers (various motherboards) that

hang upon shutdown when restarting after WSUS (v3) updates have run

 

This never happened when we were running Windows 2000 (SP4) on exactly

the same servers

 

All are monitored via KVMs and all I have to do to kick the server

back into life is to change to that server on the KVM and shutdown/

restart runs through normally.

 

I'm sure it's a KVM issue (they are all different models of Serverlink

products with PS2/VGA connectors). I've seen similar discussions about

modifying the ACPI settings on the motherboard but I'm not exactly

sure what it is that I should be looking at changing

 

Suggestions? Thanks....

[Guest Georg]

RE: 2003 Server hangs on shutdown w/KVM

 

I have similar problem and this is what i got:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/dgbrowser/en-us/default.mspx?pg=3&cat=&lang=&cr=&guid=&sloc=en-us&dg=microsoft.public.windows.server.update_services&fltr=

See "Servers hang after WSUS initiated reboot" post.

I'm trying this solution now, don't know if it works yet, but it makes sense

for sure.

So may be w'll keep our KVMs after all!

 

 

"Peter" wrote:

> I have a number of 2003-R2 (SP2) servers (various motherboards) that

> hang upon shutdown when restarting after WSUS (v3) updates have run

>

> This never happened when we were running Windows 2000 (SP4) on exactly

> the same servers

>

> All are monitored via KVMs and all I have to do to kick the server

> back into life is to change to that server on the KVM and shutdown/

> restart runs through normally.

>

> I'm sure it's a KVM issue (they are all different models of Serverlink

> products with PS2/VGA connectors). I've seen similar discussions about

> modifying the ACPI settings on the motherboard but I'm not exactly

> sure what it is that I should be looking at changing

>

> Suggestions? Thanks....

>