"cintr***@universaltelecom.com" wrote:

> In the past 2 weeks a windows 2000 server in our network hung 3 times.
> In each instance the screen is still visible, but I am unable to use
> the mouse or keyboard.  The odd thing is that I can still ping the
> server but I cannot connect to it via VNC or any other way.  All
> services that are running on the server are stopped.  The only way that
> I can remedy the problem is to reboot.  After that, things are fine.
> Another odd thing is that all 3 occurences have happened after hours or
> over the weekend.
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
>

> Do they cut back on the air conditioning during off hours or are your

> machines in an area with units you control?
>
> "cintr***@universaltelecom.com" wrote:
>
> > In the past 2 weeks a windows 2000 server in our network hung 3
times.
> > In each instance the screen is still visible, but I am unable to
use
> > the mouse or keyboard.  The odd thing is that I can still ping the
> > server but I cannot connect to it via VNC or any other way.  All
> > services that are running on the server are stopped.  The only way
that
> > I can remedy the problem is to reboot.  After that, things are
fine.
> > Another odd thing is that all 3 occurences have happened after
hours or
> > over the weekend.
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> >

"cintr***@universaltelecom.com" wrote:

>
> Nick Staff wrote:
> > Do they cut back on the air conditioning during off hours or are your
>
> > machines in an area with units you control?
> >
> > "cintr***@universaltelecom.com" wrote:
> >
> > > In the past 2 weeks a windows 2000 server in our network hung 3
> times.
> > > In each instance the screen is still visible, but I am unable to
> use
> > > the mouse or keyboard.  The odd thing is that I can still ping the
> > > server but I cannot connect to it via VNC or any other way.  All
> > > services that are running on the server are stopped.  The only way
> that
> > > I can remedy the problem is to reboot.  After that, things are
> fine.
> > > Another odd thing is that all 3 occurences have happened after
> hours or
> > > over the weekend.
> > > Any help would be appreciated.
> > >
> > >
>
> I can pretty much rule out air conditioning.  The temp stays the same.
> The event logs show absolutely nothing which is very odd to me.  I
> don't see how a server cannot function yet still be able to ping it.
> It happened again today.  This makes the 2nd day in a row that this has
> happened.  It appears that it occured right before business hours, so
> the first person in might be doing something.  I can rule out foul
> play, but there might be a virus that runs on a clients pc at login or
> something.  This just seems too odd to be true.  I wish I had more to
> go on.
>
>

> The fact that you can ping it doesn't seem odd to me - it's like a
brain dead
> person who still blinks their eyes - I think upper layer services can
crash
> and not neccesarily affect something like icmp.
>
> "cintr***@universaltelecom.com" wrote:
>
> >
> > Nick Staff wrote:
> > > Do they cut back on the air conditioning during off hours or are
your
> >
> > > machines in an area with units you control?
> > >
> > > "cintr***@universaltelecom.com" wrote:
> > >
> > > > In the past 2 weeks a windows 2000 server in our network hung 3
> > times.
> > > > In each instance the screen is still visible, but I am unable
to
> > use
> > > > the mouse or keyboard.  The odd thing is that I can still ping
the
> > > > server but I cannot connect to it via VNC or any other way.
All
> > > > services that are running on the server are stopped.  The only
way
> > that
> > > > I can remedy the problem is to reboot.  After that, things are
> > fine.
> > > > Another odd thing is that all 3 occurences have happened after
> > hours or
> > > > over the weekend.
> > > > Any help would be appreciated.
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> > I can pretty much rule out air conditioning.  The temp stays the
same.
> > The event logs show absolutely nothing which is very odd to me.  I
> > don't see how a server cannot function yet still be able to ping
it.
> > It happened again today.  This makes the 2nd day in a row that this
has
> > happened.  It appears that it occured right before business hours,
so
> > the first person in might be doing something.  I can rule out foul
> > play, but there might be a virus that runs on a clients pc at login
or
> > something.  This just seems too odd to be true.  I wish I had more
to
> > go on.
> >
> >

"cintr***@universaltelecom.com" wrote:

>
> Nick Staff wrote:
> > The fact that you can ping it doesn't seem odd to me - it's like a
> brain dead
> > person who still blinks their eyes - I think upper layer services can
> crash
> > and not neccesarily affect something like icmp.
> >
> > "cintr***@universaltelecom.com" wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Nick Staff wrote:
> > > > Do they cut back on the air conditioning during off hours or are
> your
> > >
> > > > machines in an area with units you control?
> > > >
> > > > "cintr***@universaltelecom.com" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > In the past 2 weeks a windows 2000 server in our network hung 3
> > > times.
> > > > > In each instance the screen is still visible, but I am unable
> to
> > > use
> > > > > the mouse or keyboard.  The odd thing is that I can still ping
> the
> > > > > server but I cannot connect to it via VNC or any other way.
> All
> > > > > services that are running on the server are stopped.  The only
> way
> > > that
> > > > > I can remedy the problem is to reboot.  After that, things are
> > > fine.
> > > > > Another odd thing is that all 3 occurences have happened after
> > > hours or
> > > > > over the weekend.
> > > > > Any help would be appreciated.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > >
> > > I can pretty much rule out air conditioning.  The temp stays the
> same.
> > > The event logs show absolutely nothing which is very odd to me.  I
> > > don't see how a server cannot function yet still be able to ping
> it.
> > > It happened again today.  This makes the 2nd day in a row that this
> has
> > > happened.  It appears that it occured right before business hours,
> so
> > > the first person in might be doing something.  I can rule out foul
> > > play, but there might be a virus that runs on a clients pc at login
> or
> > > something.  This just seems too odd to be true.  I wish I had more
> to
> > > go on.
> > >
> > >
>
> It froze up one last time yesterday and there was finally an error in
> the event log.  It was a paging error on the hard drive.  Either the
> hard drive was going bad or having to turn the server off the past few
> days caused the drive to crash.  In any case, I replaced the drive and
> I am now running raid on this particular server.  If it hangs again, I
> guess I'll look into ram.
>
>