Re: New servers dead! URGENT!!!

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No way it's a software problem. It *HAS* to be hardware related. I would
first isolate each machine. Take it off the network, isolate the power,
keyboard and mouse. Then try it again. If it works, try figuring out what
the problem is. If not, try booting from the CD. If it doesn't work and it's
a real hardware problem on the server, you need to figure out what the
common factor was (UPS, KVM, etc.) that fried four different servers at the
same time....

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Regards,
Hank Arnold

"Dan" <Dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I just built 4 new servers for our development team in their own A.D. with
> Exchange on one member and IIS on another member (2 DC's). A week after
> they
> had begun dev the boxes this morning turned out altogether fried. I mean,
> they were as hosed up as I've ever seen a Windows box (but all 4 were like
> this). The boxes were simply at a blank screen (black) and the monitor
> was
> still getting a feed from the system (monitor light was green). When I
> rebooted the box would simply display the splash screen from the hardware
> manufacturer, run through a super quick diag of the hardware and go back
> to
> the black screen. On one of the boxes a while bar would show up towards
> the
> bottom of the screen as if something was loading but it would finish after
> a
> sec and that was it... nothing else would happen but the system would
> still
> be running. I tried to boot into safe mode and when I hit the option to
> boot
> safe mode the system just froze right there... How could this happen to
> four
> boxes at once? I know it could easily be dismissed that the dev team did
> something here but I highly doubt it since they were really only working
> on
> two of the systems. The boxes were 2K3 servers with SP1 and all the
> latest
> updates as of 2 weeks ago.
> Dan


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