Server 2000 Hangs

[Federico B.]

Hi everybody,

I have 2 Windows 2000 Servers, File
Servers, SP4 and hotfixes. Randomly ( once, twice per
week ) the servers stop working , I mean users loose
their mappings and connections. Sometimes I can enter the
servers and I have to shut them down. In other cases I
can´t access the console and the only thing to do is to
turn them off and on. Then everything is OK. Some ideas
or clues about this behaviour? Thanks !!!!!!!

Federico

 

[Florian]

This could be anything - from faulty drivers, faulty hardware and more. If I
were you I would do the following things:

* Consult the event logs to find potential warnings, error messages from
drivers, services etc. (you may want to install eventsentry light from
http://www.eventsentry.com)
* Turn off all unnecessary services
* Run chkdsk on the machines, though it's unlikely that both servers have
problems in their file systems
* Identify all 3rd party drivers (raid controllers, network drivers etc.)
and see if you have the latest version installed
* Consider setting up performance monitor to monitor memory usage etc.

I hope this gives you a starting point ...

Hi everybody,

I have 2 Windows 2000 Servers, File
Servers, SP4 and hotfixes. Randomly ( once, twice per
week ) the servers stop working , I mean users loose
their mappings and connections. Sometimes I can enter the
servers and I have to shut them down. In other cases I
can´t access the console and the only thing to do is to
turn them off and on. Then everything is OK. Some ideas
or clues about this behaviour? Thanks !!!!!!!

Federico