Bluescreen: Unaccessible Boot Device

[kenny25813]

Having trouble on a W2K3-Server SP1.
The machine is running as ICA-Server and is supposed to reboot every night.
After rebooting a bluescreen appears with the alert: Unaccessible Boot Device

Strangely this only happens when rebooting the server. When the server is turned off and then turned on again, the OS boots perfectly and no bluescreen appears.

 

[ncotton]

do you have any external media connected to it, usb etc?

Hope this Helps.

Neil J Cotton
njc Information Systems
Systems Consultant

 

[kenny25813]

No, there are no external devices connected.
Funny thing, as it doesn't happen, when turning off and then on again. Only after rebooting via scheduled job...

 

[ncotton]

I don't suppose you know at what point is it happening? If you can, try moving the scheduled task to reboot at sometime you can monitor it. It might be a memory drump problem.

What is your blue screen error message

Hope this Helps.

Neil J Cotton
njc Information Systems
Systems Consultant

 

[kenny25813]

You're right, I can't tell you at what point all of this is happening. On Tuesday I'll be going to that customer to figure out a solution and to do some tests.

The blue screen message says something like

Error Code 0x0000007B Inaccessible Boot Device

The customer didn't give me any more information so at this moment I can't tell you any more details than the ones already posted.

I will manually start the task, when I'm at the customers. More details will follow...hopefully a solution as well

 

[kenny25813]

Update: Must have been a hardware issue. I mirrored the SCSI-devices and plugged them into an identical new server. Since then, the problem never occured again.
Now I only have to figure out, which hardware device is causing the problem.

Thanks for your help anyway.