"DanaK" <Da***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:661B0A8E-B522-4EEA-8CCB-0D636DF4BA6F@microsoft.com...
> On Monday my DC crashed at the office (W2K Server, s.p. 4). It blue screened
> while attempting to make an ERD for the another server I manage. This had the
> effect of going through part of my server's OS like a mix-master. I'd LOVE to
> blame Symantec for this but it may very well be that Symantec Corporate
> Antivirus v. 10 may be just as much a victim in this little scenario as W2K
> Server is so right now I'm just going to chalk it up to a hardware failure
> with my floppy drive and leave it at that.
>
> Yesterday I tried to perform a repair installation with a W2K OS disk that
> had service pack 3 on it. The first round took about 30 minutes to inspect my
> drive then another 30 minutes to scan the drive and then it told me to
> reboot. I think it indicated that it had fixed some things also. It didn't
> say reboot to the desktop so I rebooted to the CD and went back to the repair
> function and did another Fast Repair. This time it took over an hour plus to
> get through the inspecting and scanning and then began checking all of my
> system files but never asked me to replace any of them .... UNTIL ... it said
> that a repair was not possible on this drive and told me to hit F3 and get
> out. (This was NOT the CD I used to originally install W2K Server. The
> original CD had no service packs on it. Since the OS had s.p. 4 on it I
> thought an install CD with the closest thing to my original OS would be
> best.) So, with no other place to go I rebooted to see if anything would come
> up at all and it DID, eventually, get back to a login prompt and then, after
> another 15 to 20 minutes, the desktop. It seemed to work a bit better also.
>
> The last thing I did, however, was to attempt to re-apply service pack 4 in
> the belief that it would replace any possibly bad files left over but after
> leaving it alone for well over three hours (It's an dual 800Mhz Dell box so
> you've got to give it time) I came back to find that it never got beyond the
> window that said "Inspecting your system" so I closed the s.p. update.
>
> Looking farther into this problem I find that Windows Installer is not
> starting due to RPC, which it depends on, not being up and I can not Start
> the RPC service (I'm currently looking at article 838428 in Microsoft's KB).
> Has anyone had any experience in restoring the RPC service or do I need to
> follow the thread of dependencies farther back down the line? When I looked
> at the dependencies tab on RPC it didn't list anything except what depended
> on RPC. Without Windows Installer I can't uninstall Symantec CAV which could
> quite possibly release the server from a host of problems.
>
> Unfortunately, this morning the server will not boot to the desktop even
> though I can bring up Task Manager AND my workstation can log in and view the
> files on its two mapped drives on the server. Safe Mode is my next avenue of
> attack on this but if anyone could give me some suggestions on how otherwise
> to proceed I'm all ears.
>
> Thanks in advance.

"George Hester" wrote:

> You blue-screened making an ERD?  Hmph.  Did you ever have an indication prior to this that things weren't right?  What did the Event Viewer say about the crash?  Were you able to jot down the first line of data in the blue-screen?  Immediately after the blue screen and a reboot what happened next assuming that is what you tried to do after the blue-screen?
>
> --
> George Hester
> _______________________________
> "DanaK" <Da***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:661B0A8E-B522-4EEA-8CCB-0D636DF4BA6F@microsoft.com...
> > On Monday my DC crashed at the office (W2K Server, s.p. 4). It blue screened
> > while attempting to make an ERD for the another server I manage. This had the
> > effect of going through part of my server's OS like a mix-master. I'd LOVE to
> > blame Symantec for this but it may very well be that Symantec Corporate
> > Antivirus v. 10 may be just as much a victim in this little scenario as W2K
> > Server is so right now I'm just going to chalk it up to a hardware failure
> > with my floppy drive and leave it at that.
> >
> > Yesterday I tried to perform a repair installation with a W2K OS disk that
> > had service pack 3 on it. The first round took about 30 minutes to inspect my
> > drive then another 30 minutes to scan the drive and then it told me to
> > reboot. I think it indicated that it had fixed some things also. It didn't
> > say reboot to the desktop so I rebooted to the CD and went back to the repair
> > function and did another Fast Repair. This time it took over an hour plus to
> > get through the inspecting and scanning and then began checking all of my
> > system files but never asked me to replace any of them .... UNTIL ... it said
> > that a repair was not possible on this drive and told me to hit F3 and get
> > out. (This was NOT the CD I used to originally install W2K Server. The
> > original CD had no service packs on it. Since the OS had s.p. 4 on it I
> > thought an install CD with the closest thing to my original OS would be
> > best.) So, with no other place to go I rebooted to see if anything would come
> > up at all and it DID, eventually, get back to a login prompt and then, after
> > another 15 to 20 minutes, the desktop. It seemed to work a bit better also.
> >
> > The last thing I did, however, was to attempt to re-apply service pack 4 in
> > the belief that it would replace any possibly bad files left over but after
> > leaving it alone for well over three hours (It's an dual 800Mhz Dell box so
> > you've got to give it time) I came back to find that it never got beyond the
> > window that said "Inspecting your system" so I closed the s.p. update.
> >
> > Looking farther into this problem I find that Windows Installer is not
> > starting due to RPC, which it depends on, not being up and I can not Start
> > the RPC service (I'm currently looking at article 838428 in Microsoft's KB).
> > Has anyone had any experience in restoring the RPC service or do I need to
> > follow the thread of dependencies farther back down the line? When I looked
> > at the dependencies tab on RPC it didn't list anything except what depended
> > on RPC. Without Windows Installer I can't uninstall Symantec CAV which could
> > quite possibly release the server from a host of problems.
> >
> > Unfortunately, this morning the server will not boot to the desktop even
> > though I can bring up Task Manager AND my workstation can log in and view the
> > files on its two mapped drives on the server. Safe Mode is my next avenue of
> > attack on this but if anyone could give me some suggestions on how otherwise
> > to proceed I'm all ears.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
>
>

"Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" wrote:

> DanaK wrote:
>
> > I wish I could say.  I was already shell-shocked from the other server
> > failure.  It had something to do with inaccessable device or hardware
> > failure.  I rarely use the floppy disk in this server - and no prior
> > indication that it had a problem - so this was a huge surprise.  All the EV
> > says is that the prior shutdown was unexpected.  Bringing the server back up
> > it was obvious that something was pretty wrong inside.
> >
> > So far things have come back somewhat.  I still can't install or uninstall
> > anything even though I've got my Windows Insaller service back.  Thinking of
> > doing an upgrade to W2K3 when I get Symantec uninstalled.
> >
> Hi,
>
> You haven't by any chance PowerChute 6.x UPS software (APC) installed
> on the computer?
>
> If so, upgrade it to v7 or uninstall it.
>
>
> PowerChute 6.x cases a lot of issues, mich more than what is described
> here:
>
> PowerChute Business Edition - Customers Using 6.x Must Upgrade to 7.x
> due to Java Runtime Environment expiration
> http://nam-en.apc.com/cgi-bin/nam_en.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=7202
>
>
> --
> torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
> Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
> the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/default.mspx
>

> "Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" wrote:
>
>> You haven't by any chance PowerChute 6.x UPS software (APC)
>> installed on the computer?
>>
>> If so, upgrade it to v7 or uninstall it.
>>
>>
>> PowerChute 6.x cases a lot of issues, mich more than what is
>> described here:
>>
>> PowerChute Business Edition - Customers Using 6.x Must Upgrade
>> to 7.x due to Java Runtime Environment expiration
>> http://nam-en.apc.com/cgi-bin/nam_en.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=7202
>
>
> It's the P.S. Business Ed. Server but it doesn't give a version
> number.  It is pretty old and I can't get into it right now.
> Uninstalling is also not an option until I get that fixed, too.
Hi,

"Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" wrote:

> DanaK wrote:
>
> > "Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" wrote:
> >
> >> You haven't by any chance PowerChute 6.x UPS software (APC)
> >> installed on the computer?
> >>
> >> If so, upgrade it to v7 or uninstall it.
> >>
> >>
> >> PowerChute 6.x cases a lot of issues, mich more than what is
> >> described here:
> >>
> >> PowerChute Business Edition - Customers Using 6.x Must Upgrade
> >> to 7.x due to Java Runtime Environment expiration
> >> http://nam-en.apc.com/cgi-bin/nam_en.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=7202
> >
> >
> > It's the P.S. Business Ed. Server but it doesn't give a version
> > number.  It is pretty old and I can't get into it right now.
> > Uninstalling is also not an option until I get that fixed, too.
> Hi,
>
> Please try this to disable the PowerChute service:
>
> Start Regedit.exe
>
> Locate the key
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\APCPBESERVER
> Set the "Start" value to 4 (means disabled)
>
> Locate the key
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\APCPBEAGENT
> Set the "Start" value to 4 (means disabled)
>
> Reboot the computer.
>
>
>
> --
> torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
> Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
> the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/default.mspx
>

"Enkidu" <enkidu.***@com.cliffp.com> wrote in message
news:42f88e1a@news2.actrix.gen.nz...
> DanaK wrote:
> >
> > What would anyone's opinion be about upgrading to W2K3 at
>  > this point?  Would there be any substantial risk of
>  > carrying over any of this corruption?  How about DNS and
>  > DHCP, do these usually upgrade successfully, intact?
> >
> In my opinion it would be a bad idea to upgrade to try to
> solve a problem. It rarely works. In fact, it probably
> *never* works.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Cliff
>
> --
>
> Barzoomian the Martian - http://barzoomian.blogspot.com