Re: Windows 2000 Server hangs but can still ping.
- From: "Nick Staff" <nick.staff@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 12:09:02 -0700
that makes total sense - I don't know why that didn't even enter my mind.
Thanks for sharing the solution.
"cintreon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" wrote:
>
> Nick Staff wrote:
> > 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.
> > >
> > >
>
> It froze up one last time yesterday and there was finally an error in
> the event log. It was a paging error on the hard drive. Either the
> hard drive was going bad or having to turn the server off the past few
> days caused the drive to crash. In any case, I replaced the drive and
> I am now running raid on this particular server. If it hangs again, I
> guess I'll look into ram.
>
>
.
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