[windows2000] Re: Dead/dying server (maybe)
- From: Neil Bullock <n.bullock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:44:49 +0000 (GMT)
<n.bullock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Up until a few days ago, it kept restarting for no obvious reason. The
only
> Was it always at the same time?
Nope. Seemingly random times. A couple of times during a backup exec job,
a lot of the time when nobody at all was on the premises, and sometimes
in the middle of the working day. Oddly enough, nobody ever the server
was down.
> > Anyway, it seems to have stopped playing that game in the last few days.
Instead,
> > now it just slows to a crawl. Task manager claims System Idle Process
is
> > using 7% CPU, and nothing else is using any, so we appear to be missing
> > 93% somewhere (this happened on my home server once and it was a dodgy
and
> > extremely hot processor).
> If you want to check the temp, try the BIOS? Does this server have a
> RAID array - is the array healthy??
I'll try the BIOS tomorrow (gone home now). It has a RADI5 array, so that's
something else I'll look at tomorow.
> > Also recently, it's sometimes started taking people upwards of 3 minutes to
> Virus scanner?
Did a full virus scan recently. Even resorted to doing an ad/spyware scan,
just in case.
> > I'm pondering doing a Win2k repair from the CD or something, and failing
> > that,
> > starting to think about demoting it to a member server to see what
happens.
> > I don't really suspect anything any more. I'm just confused now.
> If you do, I'd make sure the CD is at the same SP level as the OS :)
:) Will do.
Thanks,
Neil.
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