Simple Question

[hogan]

Ive got about 6 months experience with NT (not much comparibly) and I have had huge problems recently with its hanging. Its uptime has sometimes been cut to about 30 minutes. (no point in having it) I recently added another 128mb ram to it to see if that would help solve the problem but it has not made a difference. Ive cut the services it runs down to a bare minimum just to get it to stay up, basically IIS (cut to just web), DNS, proxy and thats about it. the NT task manager/performance screen is showing lots of free memory and little cpu usage.
Please tell me someone has some idea whats going on.

- Michael

 

[theripper]

hogan -
Few questions. . .
What service pack are you running? Do you have any 3rd party network devices hooked up (ie FaxServer, Antivirus, SQL, Oracle, etc. . . ??
How many printers? Have you taken each printer off line? Not likely, but possible a bad NIC (usually printers) could be sending infinite loops to your server.

 

[hogan]

ripper -
service pack 6, (latest one i know of). Both my DNS & proxy are third party which are currently running. My email & FTP are also third party but arent running to decrease the chance of it crashing.
No printers running off the server.

 

[hnd]

One thing: service Pack 6 had a lot of bugs. Therefore it has been upgraded to 6a. May be there is a reason.

An other thing what i have seen on low cost computers: In that devices there were cheap memories (not fast enough) and therefore the user got a lot of surprising crashes.

But it is difficult to analize your problem. But always be aware: if you are connected to the internet there may be a Virus or a Trojan Horse.


hnd
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[click]

Your problem could be hardware related, try to start with VGA mode, and see if it still hangs, you can also run another OS temporarily to see if it is the CPU. Once I had a problem with a bad Diamond card, and it took me months to figure it out, until one day I transfered all of the cards into another machine as soon as I transfered the video card, the second machine hung up. This was a very expensive Video card, and fairly new, so I did not suspect it, I also got the new drivers for it, so I figured it was ok, but it wasn't. Hardware does sometime fail...(darn it!)