Unexpected bluescreen almost every night

[ENRG]

I have a strange problem with one of my NT4 Server (with SP6), running on a Compaq Proliant 3000, Pentium3 600MHz.

It's running as an Oracle server, nothing else is running on it. Almost every night it bluescreens. It makes the Oracle server cranky, since it's not being shut down properly. (And it's making me cranky too

As I said, this happens almost every night, with maybe one night where it runs perfectly normal in between sometimes.

The Event log doesn't tell me much, just this:

"The Compaq System Management Driver has detected that the system encountered an NT bugcheck prior to this boot. The bugcheck data was: STOP: 0x0000000A (0x00000000, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0x8010A974). "

Does anybody know what the reason may be?

 

[tahoe2]

Click on the my computer icon, and choose startup/shutdown.
Uncheck the box next to 'Automatically Reboot'. Tomorrow morning when you come in, the blue screen will still be up. record everything on it from the STOP error to the start of the physical dump.
Post that info and someone here will have had the same problem.

Hope this helps,

Corie

 

[ajay781]

check the memory and other components using compaq management software. it can detect if there is any error with the hardware components

ajay

 

[yizhar]

HI.

It could be related to a backup operation and devices.

Try to disable or reschedule the automatic backup just to see if it is related to the problem.

Recheck all SCSI related devices and software - hard disk, scsi adaptor, cables, (now check cables again!), scsi termination, replace scsi cables just to be sure, drivers for all devices, etc...

Check for other events using Event Viewer. Do you see other errors, maybe SCSI timeout?

Contact your hardware or Compaq support - ask for assistance.

Try using sone Compaq diagnostic tools from their web site and/or from the CDROM that came with the server (I'm not a Compaq expert so I don't know the exact tools to search for).



Yizhar Hurwitz

http://teachers.sivan.co.il/yizhar

 

[MarkPrimo]

My guess is faulty RAM. I use RST (RAM STRESS TEST) from ultra-x.

http://ultra-x.com/

 

[ENRG]

Thanks for the replies, I will try the suggestions you have made.