hi all: i face one time same problem with win2k : 1-you cant close event viewer . 2-NIC card disappear from the network properties. 3-if you make copy and try to past you cant . When you restart the server it works for some time . This was caused from alot of viruses stay on your server for long time , i advise you to install AV (Norton Corporate Edition ) --> scan your server -->and use the removing tool from its site . take care to take backup for your system state and data. Good luck Tony Haber System Eng. Brian Parker <bparker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: http://www.MSExchange.org/ 1. Make sure you have your event logs set to overwrite as required. The symptoms you describe are hanging through the sheer size of the logs, and the default (overwrite events older than 7 days) can become unwieldy if you are logging events continuously. HTH Regards Brian Parker Senior Computing Officer -----Original Message----- From: Naboth Semwayo [mailto:naboths@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 5:48 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] Strange Problem on my Win2k svr http://www.MSExchange.org/ Hi Guys I hope you can help me with this one because I dont know what else to do and am under serious pressure to produce results. I have a win2k svr - sp4 running exchange 5.5 also sp4. The problem has three main symptoms: 1) after some time of operation if I go to the event viewer, double click on one of the events nothing happens. I can try this for other logs e.g system + app log but nothing happens. When I then try and close the event + viewer I get a message that I cant close the program before I close all the open property pages. But there are no pages open. 2) We are on a dial on demand connection. When I double click the dial up status icon on the task bar it doesnt respond. Also when I double click the dial up short cut on my desktop it doesnt respond either. My connection becomes "stale" and I have no traffic coming in or going out. I cant also at this time access the network and dial up connections option. 3) The clients lose their network connection to the server. Eventually I have to restart and everything goes back to normal for a while until this starts again. I have consultants in today who condemned my DNS and WINS. They went ahead and rebuilt these but hours after they left the same thing occurred. I am now in the process of getting the latest OS patches via the windows update site. I dont know if this will help however. Can anyone assist??? Naboth ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: World of Windows Networking: http://www.windowsnetworking.com Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com No.1 ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSEXchange.org Discussion List as: bparker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Report abuse to listadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: World of Windows Networking: http://www.windowsnetworking.com Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com No.1 ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSEXchange.org Discussion List as: habre_tony@xxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Report abuse to listadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com