No entries at all in Event Viewer

[Guest]

I'm just having an issue with a Windows 2000 server that does not show anything in any part of event viewer. System and application logs are blank. It certianly used to. A while back I recall saving the logs into a backup folder and clearing them as they were full. I would expect them to continue showing new issues.

We are trying to troubleshoot a shutdown issue which appears only happen in the weekend every few months.

Any idea

-Kind Regard

Dale

 

[Dave Patrick]

The temporary fix;
You might try changing the file properties to "Overwrite as needed"

Then; Control Panel|Administrative Tools|Services|Event Log Service|General,
set the "Startup Type:" to "Disabled" restart the pc, then delete (or move)
the corrupt *.evt file(s) from %windir%\system32\config then set the Event
Log Service "Startup Type:" back to "Automatic", restart for effect.

The more permanent fix;
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;829246&Product=win2000

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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| I'm just having an issue with a Windows 2000 server that does not show
anything in any part of event viewer. System and application logs are blank.
It certianly used to. A while back I recall saving the logs into a backup
folder and clearing them as they were full. I would expect them to continue
showing new issues.
|
| We are trying to troubleshoot a shutdown issue which appears only happen
in the weekend every few months.
|
| Any ideas
|
| -Kind Regards
|
| Dale