Strange 'Sticky' Server

[gibbo_ap]

server 2 is currently agrivating me. it 'runs' fine. apart from the GUI - ish

when navigating to my comp/docs/explorer it takes 5 mins and trying to do anything else in that time is pointless.

looking in task man 700mb ram in use and cpu is just chilling.

if i click my comp, a file on desktop then double click the time (to load calender) 5 mins later they will all appear in that order.

printing is being done on this server and thats about it.

it seems to have problems talking to server 1 and (popups about cant see the shares from that server) but other servers can so not a sharing issue with s1) - sysadmins workarea on s1 is disconnected at present

EVENT VIEWER

APPLICATION
i have mr_monitor errors

Controller ID: 0 Unexpected sense: PD= 1:255, CDB = 0x12 0x01 0x00 0x00 0xff 0x00 , Sense = 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 .

but after reading this is not a problem - raid card

APCPBEAgent
"Communication Not Established"

SYSTEM
w32time random errors about signature

FRS
seems to be some replication problems from other servers to this one but i exprected this


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i have rebooted several times

am going to try booting minus nw cable
and in safe mode

help pls

[Dos_Box]

When I got problems like this (strange server performance issues etc) I used to set up a server on a VM, make it a DC transfer roles etc from the ailign server. Once sure allwas done correctly, wipe the old one and reinstall from scratch. It's a day job, but if it needs to be done then it needs to be done.
Oh, and have you checked for disk errors? Always a good thing to look for when unexplained performace issues crop up.

[gibbo_ap]

right i just booted into safe mode no network and runs fine. just booted into safe mode iwth networking and it sucks again. i have the call raised with county already but more ideas the better

[gibbo_ap]

problem with firewall lol sorted now, i can carry on with what i was doing!

what was i doing????