Geoff Posted January 24, 2006 Posted January 24, 2006 Don't buy anything with Broadcom chipsets in. They suck.
indie Posted January 24, 2006 Author Posted January 24, 2006 I'll keep that in mind when I buy.... anything! Anyway, back to the problem. I don't think all 4 servers would have faulty RAM, I've not had any problems before. It's just one server that randomly breaks. My last option is to move the RAM from the server to a workstation with an intel chipset that supports ECC and run memtest on that to see if anything comes up!
Michael Posted January 24, 2006 Posted January 24, 2006 From the symptoms you describe, it definitely sounds like a memory problem, whether it's ECC or not. If you have 4GB physical memory I'd say (more than likely) you have 4 x 1GB memory sticks installed. Seeing as you're periodically having to take the server offline anyway, try running each stick in turn. Server 2003 SP1 should still work comfortably even with 1GB of memory.
indie Posted January 24, 2006 Author Posted January 24, 2006 Think I'll try doing that after i've moved the RAM to a machine with an intel chipset and ran memtest on that. Cheers!
indie Posted January 24, 2006 Author Posted January 24, 2006 Hmm, thought I had a machine that I could put this RAM in but I don't I've moved the RAM around and reseated the CPU's, I'll see how it gets on.
john Posted January 25, 2006 Posted January 25, 2006 Did you say you have SAV on this server? If you have SAV on it, you are not running the EM Library on it are you? We have big issues with EM Library and memory problems, and it just eats all the ram avalable and then locks up the machines, and when it was out DC, locked the LAN up as well. The process that caused the issue was DLLLoader and it would load up 100's of times, and eat away at the ram
indie Posted January 25, 2006 Author Posted January 25, 2006 When I say SAV I mean Symantec Antivirus, isn't it Sophos that has the EM Library? Gonna keep an eye on the server again today, I think it might be happening at times of peak load like lesson change over.
john Posted January 25, 2006 Posted January 25, 2006 ah rite, SAV = Sophos Anti-Virus to most people (or atleast most people I know). I still tend to call Symantecs co-orperate anti-v NAV despite it not being branded Norton
indie Posted January 25, 2006 Author Posted January 25, 2006 Well i've always called it SAV! Anyway, after reseating the RAM and CPU's nothing bad has happened today.. yet!
jonk Posted January 30, 2006 Posted January 30, 2006 Hope you sorted it. Anyway, I had a server "freeze" like what you described. I found out one of the scsi hard disks was "faulty", it would work and later fail at random. I had to cold reboot the server every few weeks. I would also have to continually rebuild the array. Sent back the drive got a new one and now no problems.
indie Posted March 8, 2006 Author Posted March 8, 2006 I'm throwing this question back open again! The server's still randomly freezing and I can't find anything wrong with it. Spent a good hour on the phone to a Dell tech and he couldn't see anything at all wrong with the hardware or software. We ran a full DSET report and submitted it to dell and their other tech's couldn't see anything. In the end they left asking me to reinstall powerchute and they closed the case, which was nice of them. The server itself doesn't "lock up" straight away, I can still see the desktop and open My Computer, as soon as i try to look at a share on the server then the desktop locks up. It freezes all the domain clients on the network, its just weird!
DMcCoy Posted March 8, 2006 Posted March 8, 2006 It doesn't have an old version of powerchute on it does it? The one with expired certificates that makes 'weird' things happen?
indie Posted March 8, 2006 Author Posted March 8, 2006 It's got Powerchute Business 7.0.4 on it, which isn't the latest version but it's not old old, It's from 2005. Is it this version that's affected?
CheeseDog Posted March 8, 2006 Posted March 8, 2006 Remembered reading a RM bulletin on the powerchute problem sometime ago. Just checked and the solution was to upgrade to version 7.0.4 It was caused by a certificate expiring in July 2005 on the older version. So not sure it's the cause of your problem
CheeseDog Posted March 8, 2006 Posted March 8, 2006 Remembered reading a RM bulletin on the powerchute problem sometime ago. Just checked and the solution was to upgrade to version 7.0.4 It was caused by a certificate expiring in July 2005 on the older version. So not sure it's the cause of your problem
ConTheITGuy Posted March 8, 2006 Posted March 8, 2006 Wish some of my servers would freeze - it's boiling in here! Andy
armadillo Posted November 10, 2008 Posted November 10, 2008 Try disabling message router service- the envelope folder in sophos directory can grow to gigs and it can slow the server down- had to disable it a few times when the server kept freezing up.
Brpilot99 Posted November 11, 2008 Posted November 11, 2008 Silly question ... I notice your on SP1 .. would it be worth upgradingto SP2? It might sort out any software problem .....
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