Re: Fresh Swing Migration SBS install hangs on "Applying Computer Settings"

Hi Les,

I have not gotten over there yet this morning. Last night, we couldn't get
the machine to boot into safe mode. You know, the new Dells don't have PS2
ports so we have one of those USB to PS2 adapters (because the KVM is PS2).
Apparently, it does not get keystrokes until it's too late. Today when I go
over there, I'll being along a USB keyboard.

I was just wondering if anyone else has seen the "Applying Computer
Settings" hang since the APC PowerShute issue many moons ago?

Buddy G ~


"Les Connor [SBS MVP]" <les.connor@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Buddy,

What happened after you left the box overnight? Was it up in the morning?

Will it boot quicker in safe mode, so you can check things out? (event
logs, network configuration, etc). You could disable the advanced NIC
features as well.

--
Les Connor [SBS MVP]


"Buddy" <buddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks Susan for a quick response. Do you know of the NIC issue causing
the hang?

Buddy G ~


"Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]" <sbradcpa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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SP2 and broadcom = evil
Disable Receive side scaling and checksum on those nics.

Buddy wrote:
We have a new server with a Swing Install with a few twists:

This is a Dell 2900 with Broadcom NetXtreme II Nics
The swing was from an existing Win 2003 AD with no Exchange
organization.
The SBS R2 media had SP2 slipstreamed!
We did the swing in place. That is, we joined the SBS to the existing
domain with a new computer name and then transfered the FSMO roles from
the existing Win2003 AD and then demoted the existing Win2003 DC to a
member server without ever taking the SBS off-line. The AD migration
and demotion of the existing server went smooth.

From the Win2003 phase of the SBS build, We installed the latest NIC
drivers, but did not disable RSS. While the SBS was in phase 1 the
NICs operated normally as we transfered the AD over. Systems on the
network were authenticating to the SBS. All looked good.

In phase 2, we installed the SBS portion, feeding it disks 1 through 4
and then Outlook. After that all was well except for one message about
Fax Operator's permissions could not be set (which we believe is caused
by changing the location of the fax storage folder to the data drive.)
Anyway, after the reboot, the server seems to hang at "Applying
Computer Settings" We let it run for over 30 min before doing a hard
reset on the box. The same symptoms happend on the second reboot, so we
left it running and called it a night.

So we have SBS with sp2, Exchange SP1, Broadcom NICs with RSS likely
enabled. We have not emailed Jeff Middleton directly on this issue...
yet.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Many thanks - and it was good to meet lots of you guys at SMBNation.

Buddy Greenshield





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