Re: SBS 2003 boxes found in dos dispaying "No boot device"

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If I had to guess, (well, I am guessing <g>) the CPU ramps up, overheats, the system urps, the cpu cycles go way down and it has cooled enough by the time you push the power off to restart.

Intel makes, but there are others, monitoring hardware programs for Windows, but I'm thinking a stress test that ran from a boot cd or bart cd or usb that would really stress the cpu and ram and record faults and temps at the same time.

Lastly, if by WS boards you mean Workstation, that is not my first choice for mobo/cpu on a server. The current level is either the 3000 or 5000 series mobo with Xeon cpu.

--
Larry
Please post the resolution to your
issue so that others may benefit.


"Richard Hissong" <RichardHissong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:9FB131D7-000E-4057-A74D-5BAA972286E0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Well, the Servers are set to notify before updating via WSUS so I don't think
it's an update.
The Hardware is reasonbly new say two years built with Intel extreme WS
boards.
Now that you mention it, the two that behave this way are the same MB dual
core the one that does not is slightly older single core. The messages on
screen are in dos and though I can not regurgitate verbatim it amounts to the
bios can not find a boot device. I believe that Ctl Alt Del would most likely
do the same thing but honestly have not tried that in a while.

The resarts are random, usually I will find them in this state in the am
after greeting them on arrival. Although once in a great while it can occur
mid day.

No no, not same AD, completely seperate router, static IP and subnet
differant business'

My fear is that it is some kind of hack attemt, advapi or such where they
can't quite get all the way thru but still cause the reboot? Strange huh?

Thanks for the interest...
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RH


"Larry Struckmeyer [SBS-MVP]" wrote:

Hi Richard:

It appears you have more than one issue here. First issue is "rebooted by
themselves". The only condition that should cause this is a critical
update. Otherwise they should not be doing these restarts. Can you verify
the condition is Microsoft Update or Windows Update, or WSUS that causes the
restart? How often does the restart occur?

The next issue requires me to ask if the hardware is identical on all three
systems, and if it is of relatively new vintage. On some pretty old
hardware it is possible that the system is still on the shutdown just
sitting there waiting to be restarted, rather than on the boot up side.
What happens if you CTRL+ALT+DEL?

I should also ask if there are any messages on the screen before you power
off, and if you have opened the BIOS on restart to see if the BIOS event
logs contain any information.

And lastly to ask if all three SBS systems are in the same AD structure
(domain name), and if so what is the purpose?

--
Larry
Please post the resolution to your
issue so that others may benefit.


"Richard Hissong" <RichardHissong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:A65B652F-DDB0-49C1-944C-1D46AF45A657@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I have 3 SBS 2003 boxes all on seperate routers, all to frequently I >will
> find two of three re-booted by them selves and hung in dos unable boot. > If
> I
> hit the power switch the box turns off immediatley, hit the power > switch
> again and the whole startup process runs and completes sucsessfully > every
> time. The only differance from the one box that doesnt do this that I > can
> figure out is it does not have the fax service engaged.
> Strange huh???
> -- > RH
>



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