WINNT4.0-TSE doesn't boot anymore

[islay]

Hi,

we have a serious problem. We have several Terminalservers running on WindowsNT4.0. At the moment we have half of the servers with a black screen and the cursor in the upper left corner and no chance, to get them running again. Even with booting from the ServerCD fails, because Windows says, that there are no harddisks installed. Booting with MS-DOS or XP works, with access on the harddisks.
We have tried FDISK /MBR from MS-DOS with no succes and ran chkdsk from WindowsXP. chkdsk says, there are no problems.
The servers are Fujitsu-Siemens RX300 dualprocessor, 4GB Memory, SCSI-Controller is Adaptec an 2010S. Partitioned c: with 8GB, rest d:, Two disks in RAID1, one disk passthru for swapping.
Has anybody an idea? Thanks!!!

 

[BOKA]

Take a look at this article - it describes what sounds like your issue.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q228734/

You can (still) get the actual file here:

http://www.autourdupc.com/Logiciel/NT4/BCupdate/bcupdate.exe

MS does note that issue was fixed with TSE-SP6
However, I had this problem on NT4 Workstation with SP6 and all latest patches. Was not a TSE, but hey, still SP6.

Take an image of your drive before you try if you decide to try.

Good luck.