Re: Server will not boot - serious help required!

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"Nick" <NoSpam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Latest update, it looks like an unexplainable disk corruption of the
system partition! Very worrying.

Configuration: SBS2003 server with a pair of hardware mirrored Seagate
SATA drives on an integrated VT6420 VIA RAID controller.

All working fine untill in the middle of the night the following event
occurs a number of times:
Source: ViamRaid, EventId: 117, The driver for device
\Device\SCSI\ViamRaid detected a port timeout due to prolonged inactivity.
All associated buses were reset in an effort to clear the condition.
After this the server rebooted but failed to boot!
Discovered from safe mode that Windows is stopping at
System32\Acpitabl.dat. Tried the pre-SP1 update.sys as some have suggested
but no change.

Removed the disk drives and checked out each on a seperate machine.
Discovered that both had numerous bad sectors and Seagate disk diagnostics
reported them both as faulty. This I find v. difficult to believe, that
are less than six months old. I am now about to start the procedure of
restoring from tape.

Anyone got any ideas, is this really a hardware failure of both disk
drives at the same time or am I just witnessing some inherent flakyness of
Win2003-SP1?

The sad thing is that these, understandably very pee'd off, customers had
previously had a NT4 SBS for many years which just sat there and worked,
never needed any maintenance, never caused a problem.

Any opinions would be appreciated.

Nick


"Nick" <NoSpam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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No not recently, Win SP1 and associated fixes were put on but that was
early last year sometime. Having got the disks out this is starting to
look like a system partition corruption problem.

Nick

"Syndoc" <Syndoc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Have you checked the ACPI settings in the BIOS of your motherboard? If
you
can change the settings I would try some different ones.

Did you do any service packs?

Syn

"news.ntlworld.com" wrote:

Hi there,

Last known good didnt work, even with tape drive out. ?Still hangs on
acpitbl.sys as before. SCSI contoller was always installed, only
changed
over the tape dirve to a higher capacity.

Want to avoid a repair job/reapplying service packs.

Any more suggestions would be helpful.

Cheers,

Dave and Nick


"David Parkes" <wibble@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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you tried last known good?

"Nick" <NoSpam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Help our SBS2003 server won't boot! Safe mode locks-up at
acpitabl.sys.
Any suggestions?

The only recent change to this machine has been a new LTO-2 tape
streamer
and this is probably the first reboot after installing that.












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