Remote reboot "hangs"

[mjb22]

Hi,

I have 30 or so PC's that run various application tasks under Wintask. Currently 3 every half an hour or so using Windows 2000 professional as the o/s.

To overcome such things as memory leaks and network loss, they are set to reboot at a certain time everyday.

However, sometimes, certain machines appear to "hang" when they are in the process of rebooting. It hangs on the "saving you settings" part. I can remote onto the PC at this stage through VNC, but it wont allow me to do anything.

This is really annoying me now as the machines are spread over quite a big radius and the only way to get them back online is to physically go and rebooted them.

I don't know if its a conflict in appplications, certain processes not being shutdown properly or what.

I have noticed that they symptoms also seem to start when Wintask is trying to access a network drive that for whatever reason is unavailable at that point. I try to click anything (eg the start menu) and nothing happens, it's like the loss of the network drive is upsetting it and the only way to resolve it is my pulling the plug physically.

Please help it's driving me mad!

Cheers,

M.

 

[electronicsfreak]

Not quite sure if this will help but thought id give it a shot. Try running scan disck and defrag on them and also run sfc. Once again dont know if this will help but thought id give it a shot.

 

[mjb22]

Thanks, I will do that. Just to let you know that the machines are basically less than 6 months old and are all ghosted from a master disc.

 

[SgtBeavis]

after doing that SFC, enable USERENV logging...

Something in Winlogon is the likely culprit.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pr...ons/0907105e-7856-4c93-b97f-a9a306623af5.mspx

Microsoft Certified Nut.