Windows 2003 server hangs on reboot

Do you have a tape drive in the server? ReggieB ,. Log in or Sign up to hide this advert. Hi rs Welcome to the BBS! Very good questions by ReggieB answer those first! Do below in order presented! Run repeatedly until no more found. Run both temp and registry repeatedly until no more found. Xclean will run minimized and will pop up a window if it finds anything.

If it finds nothing it will exit. If it works then the process is basically adding in each driver one by one until you find the driver that is causing the shutdown problems. Once you find the driver try to find a updated version or switch to the inbox driver for the device. Note: Windows Update contains updated drivers that come from manufacturers so they are not necessarily Microsoft drivers.

Tiger Li. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Resources for IT Professionals. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. One of my web servers has failed to reboot. Its suck on the animated Windows Server loading screen.

Prior to reboot it was showing a degraded drive in the array, but not allowing me to rebuild it. The hosting company has suggested that this may be because the array is rebuilding, but I am not convinced.

Anyone have any experience of MediaShield and if it will stall windows like this? When Windows is stuck in that loading screen, it's usually due to hardware problem tat is the boot phase where Windows is loading drivers and initializing hardware.

Also, turn on boot logging. The bar will grind away all day until the kernel tells itself all the drivers are loaded. If the machine starts in safe mode, the RAID is off the hook probably. If you can't get a log, look at the RAID. I did some more digging and came up with this though and it appears to be working. Boot the server using the SmartStart CD version 5. Power cycle the server when prompted. Boot the server using the SmartStart CD.

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