Server always unavailable in morning and thus needs reboot

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I have a Windows 2000 file server with all the updates.
It's been updated for awhile now with no issues.

Recently, it has been unavailable, as in cannot connect to
it with anything (Hyena, Terminal Services Client) when I
get in in the morning. I am able to ping it. When I go
to access the machine physically it doesn't "wake up". I
say that in quotes because it is set to always be on.

I can reboot it, and then it appears to be on for the rest
of the day. I am not sure exactly when it becomes
unavailable. I also don't think there is anything major
mentioned in the Event Viewer, but I need to double check
that.

I just wanted to put this out there in case anyone had any
suggestions of things to check out to see why this is
happening. Thanks in advance...and I'll update this as I
get more info.
 
Kyle said:
I have a Windows 2000 file server with all the updates.
It's been updated for awhile now with no issues.

Recently, it has been unavailable, as in cannot connect to
it with anything (Hyena, Terminal Services Client) when I
get in in the morning. I am able to ping it. When I go
to access the machine physically it doesn't "wake up". I
say that in quotes because it is set to always be on.

I can reboot it, and then it appears to be on for the rest
of the day. I am not sure exactly when it becomes
unavailable. I also don't think there is anything major
mentioned in the Event Viewer, but I need to double check
that.

I just wanted to put this out there in case anyone had any
suggestions of things to check out to see why this is
happening. Thanks in advance...and I'll update this as I
get more info.
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You might have a thermal problem, perhaps a stalled fan.
Have you checked your Event Viewer? Get a handle on
the issue by creating a heartbeat log. The following command,
when executed from a Command Prompt, will cause a log
line to be created once every 5 minutes:

for /L %h in (0,1,23) do for /L %m in (0,1,55) do
at %h:%m /every:m,t,w,th,f,s,su c:\heartbeat.bat
(unwrap line)

And here is the contents of c:\heartbeat.bat

@echo off
echo %date% %time% %ComputerName% is alive >> c:\heartbeat.log
 
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