Re: SBS 2003 Premium - Midnight Crash

I would think that your most likely cause has to do with the external drive that you're using for Shadow Copies. If it's a USB drive, maybe the properties of the drive aren't optimal... If you go into the properties of the external drive, see if the checkbox is checked to allow the machine to turn off that device to save power.

I'm also not very comfortable with the idea of an external drive doing Shadow Copies in general, but I don't know enough about the file system and how Shadow Copies are created and used to really speak to that point.

Before replacing the motherboard, I'd look at growing the size of your arrays to avoid having to use the external disk.

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Mike Shepperd
Sunfire Solutions LLC
Seattle, WA

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"Nikos Mastromanolis" <mastrom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:eXocMH6DHHA.3396@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello,

I have a server that crashes everynight around 00:27-00:30.

Here is the log entry when I turn the server back on in the morning.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: System Error
Event Category: (102)
Event ID: 1003
Date: 17/11/2006
Time: 9:04:49 ðì
User: N/A
Computer: SPC-SERVER-2
Description:
Error code 0000007a, parameter1 c03d93b4, parameter2 c000009d, parameter3
f64ed9c6, parameter4 5faef860.

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http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 53 79 73 74 65 6d 20 45 System E
0008: 72 72 6f 72 20 20 45 72 rror Er
0010: 72 6f 72 20 63 6f 64 65 ror code
0018: 20 30 30 30 30 30 30 37 0000007
0020: 61 20 20 50 61 72 61 6d a Param
0028: 65 74 65 72 73 20 63 30 eters c0
0030: 33 64 39 33 62 34 2c 20 3d93b4,
0038: 63 30 30 30 30 30 39 64 c000009d
0040: 2c 20 66 36 34 65 64 39 , f64ed9
0048: 63 36 2c 20 35 66 61 65 c6, 5fae
0050: 66 38 36 30 f860

The weird thing is that these codes indicate some kind of hard disk
subsystem failure but this happens every night at the same time. 12:27 to
12:30 after midnight the server will crash.

System files are on a raid 1 and company files on raid 5 through an adaptec
controller. Raid 5 didn't fail at any time. Raid 1 (system) failed twice and
I replaced one of the hard disks even if the disk seems to be fine. Raid 1
is based on the intel motherboard so I bought a motherboard to replace the
original (same model).

Questions:

1. Will there be any problems for SBS 2003 Premium if I replace the
motherboard with an identical one? (I will use the same cpu)
2. Is there any scheduled proccess that initiates or completes around 12:27?
(No, backup is scheduled to run after 02:00)
3. Is it ok to use an external USB (SATA) disk for shadow copies of System and Company Files volumes? I've installed
one the last months and I wonder if it's related to the crashes. I also changed the
external case and the hard disk but the problem persists.

Thank you,

Nikos



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