Re: Windows 2000 Server hangs but can still ping.

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The fact that you can ping it doesn't seem odd to me - it's like a brain dead
person who still blinks their eyes - I think upper layer services can crash
and not neccesarily affect something like icmp.

"cintreon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" wrote:

>
> Nick Staff wrote:
> > Do they cut back on the air conditioning during off hours or are your
>
> > machines in an area with units you control?
> >
> > "cintreon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" wrote:
> >
> > > In the past 2 weeks a windows 2000 server in our network hung 3
> times.
> > > In each instance the screen is still visible, but I am unable to
> use
> > > the mouse or keyboard. The odd thing is that I can still ping the
> > > server but I cannot connect to it via VNC or any other way. All
> > > services that are running on the server are stopped. The only way
> that
> > > I can remedy the problem is to reboot. After that, things are
> fine.
> > > Another odd thing is that all 3 occurences have happened after
> hours or
> > > over the weekend.
> > > Any help would be appreciated.
> > >
> > >
>
> I can pretty much rule out air conditioning. The temp stays the same.
> The event logs show absolutely nothing which is very odd to me. I
> don't see how a server cannot function yet still be able to ping it.
> It happened again today. This makes the 2nd day in a row that this has
> happened. It appears that it occured right before business hours, so
> the first person in might be doing something. I can rule out foul
> play, but there might be a virus that runs on a clients pc at login or
> something. This just seems too odd to be true. I wish I had more to
> go on.
>
>
.

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