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W2K Server crashes for no reason (DELL PE 2450), Please Help

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ianbla

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Oct 31, 2001
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I need to sort this out as it is starting to get on my nerves, I have a Dell PowerEdge 2450 with Win2000 that just halts every now and again. Here is a brief history

12/05/2003 SP3 installed (was SP1)
19/08/2003 MS Hotpatch KB823980 applied
10/09/2003 System crashes with EventID 6008
11/09/2003 MS Hotpatch KB824146 applied
13/09/2003 System crashes with EventID 6008
15/09/2003 System crashes with EventID 6008

I am not sure it is a software issue or a hardware issue or maybe even a combination of both, but the server has been working fine for nearly 3 years now before these 3 crashes. The event viewer doesn't give me much to go on, just the following

The previous system shutdown at 4:53:31 PM on 9/15/2003 was unexpected.

0000: 000907d3 000f0001 00350010 00bf001f
0010: 000907d3 000f0001 0035000f 00bf001f

With no informative events before or after.

No new hardware/software has been added recently and the server doesn't really do much except DHCP, DNS and is the Primary log on server.

I did come across this on a DELL website and it seems a lot of people with DELL servers have the same problem but there doesn't seem to be a firm fix.



Anybody on here having/had the same problem?
 
Thanks, I did see this article but it doesn't fit with my problem.
 
Well if everything has been working ok and you have not installed anything at all including software patches and or hardware that would lead me to think that you have a hardware problem I have had to replace power supplies before because they were starting to go bad which will cause the computer to reboot for no reason. The only other thing is you might have a virus that is trying to shutdown processes ect. and then trying to reboot. The other possable thing could be that someone else has tried to do something at the machine? There is not much to go on you could try installing service pack 4 that was a sugestion when I brought up what was going on with someone
 
You didn't put any security patches on did you?? Also it could be a Bad Ram Stick causing it.

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