W2K Server shutting down - unexpected

[Anibadh]

Help!
My server has been shutting down itself - unexpected - and that happened again after about 24 hours.
Any suggestions what to do ?
There are 15 workstations conected and also e-mailserver. that one also is working very unstabel.
Who knows a good e-mailserver ?
thanxfor your reply
Anibadh

 

[Assimilate]

whats up, ive had a similar problem, only i am not connected to any network yet. My windows reboots unexcpectadly and provides me with a blue screen afterwards telling me that its either a driver, bios problem. If reset it works fine again. It seems to happen when a lot of processes are occurring at the same time.

 

[DebO]

Have you recently added any new services or hardware components?

Also, have you checked event viewer to determine if there are any warning messages that may identify the source(s) of the failure?

Was w2k installed as a fresh install or did you upgrade from NT 4? I ask this question as there may be NT 4.0 registry entries that are causing you challenges.

Deb

 

[Assimilate]

Hi, i have just checked the even viewer, one thing that keeps on re-occurring are the following


Event Type: Error
Event Source: Cdrom
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7
Date: 21/10/2001
Time: 13:12:51
User: N/A
Description:
The device, \Device\CdRom1, has a bad block.
Data:
0000: 0f 00 18 00 01 00 74 00 ......t.
0008: 00 00 00 00 07 00 04 c0 .......À
0010: 00 01 00 00 9c 00 00 c0 ....œ..À
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0028: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0030: 00 00 00 00 be 00 00 00 ....¾...
0038: 02 c4 00 00 00 02 03 00 .Ä......

I wasnt using my cdrom, but this could be due to auto detect when i open windows explorer.

This is occurring quite frequently also

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Dhcp
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1007
Date: 21/10/2001
Time: 13:14:37
User: N/A
Description:
Your computer has automatically configured the IP address for the Network Card with network address 00038A000011. The IP address being used is 169.254.101.152.
Data:
0000: 00 00 00 00 ....

I dont understand the relevance of this. I havent added any new services or hardware components, and i have upgraded from win98

 

[Anibadh]

Hi,
I installed the Server upon the old installation - and now it has become stabil. But it's true that it has to do with newly installed soft-or hardware.
Let's look ans see over the next few days !!!!

It's better to make a clean installation - than to upgrade from win98
;-)