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Windows Server Hanging Often, plz help!

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samsamsam

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Mar 21, 2006
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Hi,

I've just setup a new server at an office with approx 12 computers. The server is a dual core 3.0 ghz pentium D, with 250gig RAID mirrored SATA hard drives, running Windows Server 2003.

It is essentially used as a file server. Everyone on the network has their s:\ mapped to the server.

It ran fine yesterday, but today the server started hanging, every 1-2 minutes for 10-15 seconds. Sometimes 5 minutes will go by with no hanging, but then it starts up again. When it hangs, it locks Explorer.exe & most of the Windows on the server's screen. It also hangs all the user's computers when trying to access their mapped drives.

I've used the Performance Tool in Windows Server. When it hangs, the total number of bytes in/out from the server's network connection drops to 0. Sometimes it hangs when there is a high disk access queue, but it doesn't always seem to be the cause.

Anyone have any suggestions as to what this could be?

I thought it might be too much network traffic, but even after switching off most of the computers in the office and only having 2 going, it was still hanging just as much. Also, after rebooting the server, it seems to be better for a while, then it gets worse again.


ANY help is appreciated! Thanks!
 
Run perfmon for all relevant counters and see what is out of whack.

A+, N+, MCSA:Messaging, MCSE
 
How much RAM is in the server and what verison of Winodws server 2003 are you running? (standard, enterprise, etc)

PD
 
The server has 1GB RAM, and is running Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition.
 
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