Server unexpectedly locking up

[Guest]

I am running Windows 2000 Advanced Server on a Dell PowerEdge 6650 and I'm
experiencing lockups during the evening or early morning hours.

The server is attached to a SAN PowerVault 650F and running Veritas
BackupExec v8.6. There are several other minor applications running as well.

When I arrive in the morning the server has an Event ID 6008 recorded in the
System Log.

The server is essentially dead. I am unable to ping the server. I am
unable to power down the server using the power button on the front panel. I
have to unplug the two power cords in order to restart the server! When the
server has experienced lockups in the morning the backup job has completed,
last evening when the server locked up it was during the backup job.

Last week I thought it might possibly be a corrupt pagefile so I booted the
server with a Winternals CD and deleted the pagefile and the server was fine
for 2 days and then started exhibiting the same behavior again.

I was thinking of running Performance Monitor in case it's a memory leak but
I'm not convinced it's a memory leak or Veritas at this point. I'm leaning
toward a possible hardware problem. If I were to run Performance Monitor any
suggestions as to what parameters I might want to choose?

Any other ideas as to what I might want to look at?

Thank you.

 

[Danny Sanders]

I found this on eventid.net

"As per Microsoft: "This problem occurs when the backup program tries to use a Sqlvdi.dll file that has been unregistered. Typically, the Sqlvdi.dll file can become unregistered when you uninstall SQL Server Desktop Engine (also known as MSDE 2000) from a computer that is also running Microsoft SQL Server 2000". See Q830575 to fix this problem. "

Unfortunately searching MS for that "Q" comes up with nothing.

I would guess running regsvr32 Sqivdi.dll from the run box would re register it, or maybe reinstalling MSDE. I'm just guessing here.


hth
DDS W 2k MVP MCSE

 

[Guest]

Thank you for the quick reply! Unfortunately the file, sqlvdi.dll, is not
located on the server.

Brian

 

[Granny]

Our Dell Power Edge 1400 has had lockup problems since we bought it about 3
years ago. I just installaed another server tonight so we can promo it to a
Domain Controller - let it replicate - check that all works - then demote
the PowerEdge and bring it home and wipe it out and try to discover the
source of the problem.

I am leaning toward a hardware problem - maybe heat. Thinking aobut buying
a bigger power supply and adding some more case fans

jeanette