I have installed Win 2k3 server on my old desktop machine & now I find it runnig too slow or it just freezes after 5 minutes after booting up. I usually have press the re-start power button just to get out of this mode. Task manager doesn't respond! I have deleted internet files & cleared the history for IE browser. The spec's for this machine are below: OS Name Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Server 2003, Standard Edition Version 5.2.3790 Build 3790 OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation System Manufacturer P4i6G System Model P4i65G System Type X86-based PC Processor x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel ~1997 Mhz BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. P1.30, 9/8/2006 SMBIOS Version 2.3 Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32 Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1 Locale United States Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.2.3790.0 (srv03_rtm.030324-2048)" Time Zone Pacific Daylight Time Total Physical Memory 1,024.00 MB Available Physical Memory 686.11 MB Total Virtual Memory 3.38 GB Available Virtual Memory 2.80 GB Page File Space 2.39 GB Standard VGA Graphics Adapter Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC 80 GB Hdd with 2 partitions(Win 2k3 ser OS partition has 30GB space left) How should increase the OS performance & avoid freezing???

2003 server is designed for Servers not desktops. And the information you have posted doesnt tell us too much. You need to find out what process's are consuming your system resources. That being said my initial statement still stands.

These are the max process running usually with my programs running: (I have listed the most ones only) Yahoo msgr 51k (where k=1000) MSN msgr 41k explorer 17k Netcaptor 41k svchost 34k lsass 20k FWservice 13k And the rest are less than 5k only.

You should boot up and walk away. Don't click on anything. Come back in 10 minutes and review the event viewer logs. Lots of folks have run server on a workstation. When I was at Hyundai we ran a NT DC on a dec workstation for 250 pcs in the fab.

"You should boot up and walk away. Don't click on anything. Come back in 10 minutes and review the event viewer logs." Ok, I tried that, & it works out of every 2-3 times but on the 4 time it freezes completely & I usually have to press the re-boot button as CTRL-ALT-DEL doesn't work. these are the error messages I got on the event viewer: An error ocurred while the wizard was checking the current Windows product licence. Error code 4 0x80070005 Failed auto update retrieval of third-party root list sequence number from: <http://www.download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3/static/trustedr/en/authrootseq.txt> with error: This operation returned because the timeout period expired. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/even... I have several of these error messages, all are specifying the same errors.

Hi there! mine was Intel(R) core2 QUAD CPU @2.66ghz, 2.00 GB of RAM windows server 2003 standard edition Service pack 1 My CPU serves 30 stations and it works just fine, I guess your Machine is darn too old for windows server 2003. try Upgrading and also try to install some Anti Virus on it. Hope it helps...