LSASS.EXE terminated unexpectedly

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I'm posting message as per the advice regarding new or different
issues. I have also posted some of this content in the thread
concerning the previous issue.

We were previously having problems with our SBS 2003 server:
1. lo memory condition causing non paging requests to be delayed
2. insufficient resources for many many tasks such as remote desktop,
opening snapins etc)
3. general network errors (the machine is standalone public webserver
and these errors were between ASP and SQL2000 on the same machine)

All the above problems were intermittent.

We have done hardware diagnostics and found no problem and we also
defragment and check the drives for errors regularly, and also run
virus checking.

Today I tried to install SP1 (windows server 2003 SP1 and SBS 2003 SP1
as
per the instruction on the page for installing it.

The windows server 2003 SP1 seemed to install OK but when the system
rebooted we got the blue screen of death (for the first time ever on
this machine) - the error was that the system could not find "cannot
find winsrv".

So, we reformatted and reinstalled SBS 2003 from the CDs, rebooted to
safe mode, and did a full restore (we had done a backup immediately
prior to installing the SP), and now we have an entirely new
problem.......after a seemingly random period of time we get a popup
saying that lsass.exe has terminated unexpectedly and the system will
restart in 60 seconds. I have checked to viruses, and also applied the
hotfix 826819 as recommended as a fix to this problem, but it has not
helped.

At the moment, we can't get the server to stay up long enough to
reconfigure IIS (I was surprised that after doing a full restore all
the IIS settings for sites, VDs, app pools etc were all set to the
default) to get our sites back up and running.

I am now considering doing a fresh reinstall, get all the updates, and
reconfiguring everyting from scratch, and only restoring our data files
from the backup (website source files and database backups) though just
thinking about that is making me feel ill.

Any further advice would be much appreciated.

Regards
Rob

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