Hanging server...

[WillShakespeare]

Hi all,

We just recently puchased a lovely new Dell PE4600 with 2gb ram, 200Gb raid5, and 2Xeon procs.
WIndows 2K installed, and it is a secondary GC in our existing AD network. One of the processors hasn't been delivered however, so we are waiting for a Dell engineer to come and remedy that.
When booting up, it says 1 processor, and if you look at properties when in W2k, it shows one processor. However, in Task Man, it shows two cpu graphs, with slightly different graphs.
When it has started, it stays on, and no errors... however, as soon as you start to copy anything from the network to the local drive, it gets about 10%, regardless of size, and then hangs... so you have to reboot.
There is nothing in the event log, and the error that pops up after a time, before it hangs and is unuseable is:
Cannot copy file "x.*", the network name or path cannot be found.

Any ideas?

Will

 

[GiaBetiu]

Interesting.
It seems that Windows 2k are checking different parameter than BIOS to identify if there is multiprocessing.
I suppose that is a motherboard parameter. Are there such options to set? Maybe a jumper?

Gia Betiu
m.betiu@chello.nl
Computer Eng. CNE 4, CNE 5

 

[WillShakespeare]

Thanks for reply, but no... there does not seem to be. The details while booting up say there si only one processor, which leads us away from thinking it is the motherboard, but we did look into that area.

Any more ideas?

Will