Re: SERVER DOWN NEED HELP

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From: George Valkov (null_at_somewhere.com)
Date: 06/22/04 

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:59:11 +0300

This is most likely a disk or partition being corrupted.
Most likely a boot virus, so I advise You run a full system scan.

Here is my story (Two Years ago)

Disk configuration:
Disk0\Partition0 - FAT 32, C: - Windows Me
Disk0\Partition1 - QNXFS, E: - QNX
Disk0\Partition2 - FAT 32, G: - MS-DOS 7
Disk0\Partition3 - NTFS, F: - Windows XP
Disk1\Partition0 - NTFS, D: - Windows XP
* each partition starts it's own operating system.
* there is no boot menu.
* I used fdisk.exe to change the boot partition.

On Windows Me (all patches installed) I had Norton Antivirus 2003 (latest
updates and definitions, auto protect on) and Norton Internet Security 2002
(latest updates). The entire system was checked, free from viruses.

* Perfect Protection!
No, It was not enough.
Windows Me crushed while I was playing a game.
On the next startup: Blue Screen - Windows Protection error.
I started the computer in MD-DOS.
Scan c: for viruses with navdx.exe
* it uses the virus definitions from NAV 2003 (latest)
c:\windows\system32\kernel32.dll
infected with Boot Aragorn.
And DOS crushed here.
format c:
* I had a backup of the partition

Try to boot Windows XP:
Both of my installations displayed errors similar to Yours.
Recovery Console was very unstable and may crush any moment.
chkdsk from the recovery console crushes the computer.
Finally the fixboot, reboot, checkdisk solved the problem.

>From that moment on I will never ever install this products on my system:
Windows Me
NAV *
NIS *

Thanks for time.
I hope my story was useful to You!

George Valkov

<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1f6d601c4584b$5239fce0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> cheers for the advice
> I eventually got it working thank GOD, last thing I needed
> was the server crashing on me. I did the following from
> the RC..
> 1. Fix boot
> 2. Chkdsk /p (found and fixed errors)
> 3 Then expanded the pci.sys from install CD again
>
> All ok now.......still strange that I couldn't findany
> links to this problem in 2003 server only 2000\xp on the
> web.
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Also from the recovery console, try this commands:
> >
> >fixboot c:
> >chance to repair partition: good
> >chance to damage partition: small
> >
> >fixmbr /?
> >Note:
> > Use a device\disk as a parameter to this command.
> > !!! Using device\disk\partition will cause data LOSS !!!
> > ! Command is unsafe. Backup You disk, before You use it.
> > * That means backup ALL partitions on the disk.
> >
> >
> >George Valkov
> >
> >
> >
> ><anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >news:1fe1801c4583c$8f56f7e0$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> >> A windows 2003 server is getting a boot up error about a
> >> pci.sys file being missing or corrupt. I can't find
> >> anything anywhere on how to fix this for a 2003 server.
> I
> >> found a document for a windows 2000 server and I've
> >> expanded the file ok from the i386 folder on the CD
> using
> >> the recovery console. But it is still a problem. Also
> >> tried different combinations of ram as I know that
> windows
> >> xp has problems with this...can anybody help please - -
> >> whats my next step??
> >
> >
> >.
> >

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