Re: Help, MS tech support is useless

Nathan:

Shut down all the unwanted services and set them to manual and restart your
box.

You need to troubleshoot now and as you go along turn on the services one by
one.
Hopefully this will lead you some where.

WP
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"Nathan Weldon" wrote:

> It is a DNS server as well. The network service is not starting. Basically
> the machine cannot communicate with anything. Can't even run rsop to check
> policy settings, get access denied. I can ping it for about two minutes
> after rebooting, but as soon as windows gets about half loaded, no dice
> anymore. So I was thinking driver issues, but I have the latest drivers from
> HP so I don't know what else it could possibly be. I've got another server
> at the other location that installed the sp just fine, but it isn't a DC.
> Basically any DC that I install the sp on, craps out once it is rebooted. Am
> using HP proliant servers, the one I'm working on is brand new, just got it
> last week.
> "mark" <mark)lt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:%230J5PujtFHA.460@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > almost certainly going to be your dns settings, maybe they are pointing to
> > a non existent IP, or maybe a public DNS ?
> >
> > "Nathan Weldon" <nweldon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:Oke7dCjtFHA.996@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>I just installed sp1 for server 2k3 on a DC, the only DC at a satelite
> >>office. I installed AD before sp1 so maybe that is my downfall but too
> >>late to do anything about it now. AFter rebooting the server takes forever
> >>and a day to start up, displays "Setting up your network connections" for
> >>a good 20 minutes. After I'm finally able to log in, none of my network
> >>connections function. My initial thought was windows firewall, but I have
> >>a policy in effect that disables it becuase it caused nothing but trouble
> >>and I use a 3rd party one anyway. I think it has something to do with the
> >>security configuration wizard which is supposed to run after rebooting,
> >>but it doesn't, and I can't even find it in the control panel. This
> >>happened my other location on my DC/Exchange Server, after 6 hours on the
> >>phone with MS I gave up and uninstalled the service pack.
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
>
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