Guest JohnMed Posted May 19, 2008 Posted May 19, 2008 Hi, We are running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition on a Dell server PE2800 with 6.0 G of RAM running Service Pack 2. Every Monday between 9:15 am and 9:30 am the server locks up for about 6 to 9 minutues. If I run task manager before this occurs, the Server Utilization only runs at 1 to 2 percent during entire the lock up time (updates are displayed in the task manager window and I can move the task manager window around on the screen). The LEDs on the server hard drives flash pretty much solid during this time (using RAID LEVEL 5). During the lock up, you cannot click on any desktop icon, the start bar, time, etc. When it nears the end of the lock up a Server Busy Message is displayed and then the lock up ends. A while back, we ran spyware scanning software and it did find a couple of problems and cleaned them up. We have always been running Trend Micro Antivirus and have not found any thing specific in the logs. Any ideas for things to check would be appreciated. Otherwise, we probably will have to do a complete backup - reinstall - restore. Thanks for your assistance in advance.
Guest JR Posted May 20, 2008 Posted May 20, 2008 Re: Server Locks up and then returns after 6 to 10 minutes. On Mon, 19 May 2008 07:46:35 -0700, JohnMed <JohnMed@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: >Hi, > >We are running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition on a Dell server >PE2800 with 6.0 G of RAM running Service Pack 2. Every Monday between 9:15 >am and 9:30 am the server locks up for about 6 to 9 minutues. If I run task >manager before this occurs, the Server Utilization only runs at 1 to 2 >percent during entire the lock up time (updates are displayed in the task >manager window and I can move the task manager window around on the screen). >The LEDs on the server hard drives flash pretty much solid during this time >(using RAID LEVEL 5). During the lock up, you cannot click on any desktop >icon, the start bar, time, etc. When it nears the end of the lock up a >Server Busy Message is displayed and then the lock up ends. A while back, we >ran spyware scanning software and it did find a couple of problems and >cleaned them up. We have always been running Trend Micro Antivirus and have >not found any thing specific in the logs. Any ideas for things to check >would be appreciated. Otherwise, we probably will have to do a complete >backup - reinstall - restore. >Thanks for your assistance in advance. Check to see if you have any scheduled tasks running. Even if you don't, try disabling windows scheduler service(s), and wait till monday...
Guest JohnMed Posted May 21, 2008 Posted May 21, 2008 Re: Server Locks up and then returns after 6 to 10 minutes. Thanks JR, we will give that a try and I'll respond back whether it helped or not. "JR" wrote: > On Mon, 19 May 2008 07:46:35 -0700, JohnMed > <JohnMed@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >We are running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition on a Dell server > >PE2800 with 6.0 G of RAM running Service Pack 2. Every Monday between 9:15 > >am and 9:30 am the server locks up for about 6 to 9 minutues. If I run task > >manager before this occurs, the Server Utilization only runs at 1 to 2 > >percent during entire the lock up time (updates are displayed in the task > >manager window and I can move the task manager window around on the screen). > >The LEDs on the server hard drives flash pretty much solid during this time > >(using RAID LEVEL 5). During the lock up, you cannot click on any desktop > >icon, the start bar, time, etc. When it nears the end of the lock up a > >Server Busy Message is displayed and then the lock up ends. A while back, we > >ran spyware scanning software and it did find a couple of problems and > >cleaned them up. We have always been running Trend Micro Antivirus and have > >not found any thing specific in the logs. Any ideas for things to check > >would be appreciated. Otherwise, we probably will have to do a complete > >backup - reinstall - restore. > >Thanks for your assistance in advance. > > > Check to see if you have any scheduled tasks running. Even if you > don't, try disabling windows scheduler service(s), and wait till > monday... >
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