Very slow shutdown and startup

[robinnorth]

I have to go into one of the offices I support when no-one is working tomorrow. We've all been there.

We had to reboot the Windows 2003 server last week - it's a basic P4 3.2 clone with 1Gb DDR400 and 2 mirrored Hitachi 10k 73Gb SCSI's and Adaptec 29320 controller. It took over an hour to fully shutdown and left it off overnight.

The next morning it took 3 hours to boot up fully.

It's not running a mail server and if it was just a shutdown problem, I would assume it's a driver issue or program not shutting down properly.

I can't RDC into the server, so haven't seen any logs yet.

Has anyone any ideas on why the slow startup?

Thanks,

Rob

 

[schtek]

antivirus??? dns??? try those!!

"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."

 

[BigFunkyChief]

Your Event Logs should tell you exactly why it's slow. Like Schtek said, DNS, AV, services failing to start....

 

[Larsdemo]

You need the update of your powershute software this is causing this i had the same issue last week.

lars

Network admin for worldwide freight forwarders company.
mcp mcsa\: Messaging mcse -2003

 

[djtech2k]

The powerchute sw could do it OR it could be the 'Clear PageFile on ShutDown' policy. This will cause your retstarts to take a LONG time.