Re: CTRL-ALT-DEL SCREEN VANISHES

The only problem is that it is running along fine and then goes out the
window in a matter of a minute or two and this is making it difficult to see
what state the system is in at the moment it starts happening.

Dave


"Steven L Umbach" <n9rou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Does a reboot solve the problem? If so it sounds like you may have a
memory leak on some process. I have not tried it myself but there are some
Resource Kit tools called memmonitor and memtriage that may help
troubleshoot such as shown in the link below. As soon as you experience
reduction in performance be sure to check Task Manager for memory/CPU
usage and it would be a good idea to use something like Process Explorer
from SysInternals to save a baseline of what memory and CPU usage is for
your processes when everything is running well. --- Steve

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9d467a69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&DisplayLang=en

"Mr Durand" <eldocomp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a Dell PowerEdge 2550 server running Windows 2003 SP1 and have
strange behavior occurring every 7-14 days. The server will always
respond to a ping however when the problems start, I notice services start
becoming choppy in response and eventually do not respond at all....when
it gets into this state, I cannot access the system with RDP and the
actual system console loses the Ctrl-Alt-Del screen which was displayed
prior to the trouble starting.

The server runs the following apps/services

IIS 6.0
Windows SharePoint Services
MSDE for SharePoint
XWall 3.34

The server is protected by firewall appliances and the event logs show no
signs of any trouble on the system at anytime. A straight 2 hour Dell
hardware diag run reflected no problems on the system whatsoever.

Any idea what direction I can take to resolve the issue? I'm convinced
it is software and maybe even specifically with the lsass engine but
can't confirm without any event entries to go on. This doesn't happen
frequently though it does consistently happen. The server has 3GB of RAM
and everytime I look in on it, it has more than half of the physical RAM
available with normal paging.

I'm stumped....I'll call PSS if I have to but the problem is I can't
force the problem to occur making it more difficult to troubleshoot.

Dave
Phoenix, Arizona





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