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NT rebooting at Splash Screen
Name: Robert Rissler Date: August 22, 2003 at 16:10:54 Pacific OS: NT 4.0 SP6a CPU/Ram: Dual 800mhz / 1gb ram
Comment:
Ok, here is the deal. I have a server running Windows NT 4.0 SP6a. I recently downloaded the Security Update package from Microsoft's own Windows Update site and now my server is inaccessible. Well, I can't get into NT anyways. The server boots up fine as it always had before, but when it gets to the splash screen and the 'Hit CTRL-ALT-DELETE to login" box appears, the screen just goes black and the server reboots. The cycle is never ending. It just keeps rebooting and loading, rebooting and loading, rebooting and loading, etc... Does anyone have any clue what this might be and what can be done about it. Comments, Suggestions, anyone....
Name: Jens pilgaard Date: August 27, 2003 at 00:28:35 Pacific
Reply:
Have same problem. Would love to hear if someone had a fix for It. Running same OS nt4 with sp6 and also reebooting after downloading from windows update.
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Response Number 2
Name: Robert Rissler Date: August 28, 2003 at 13:36:58 Pacific
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Fixed problem by restoring only drive c: from backup. Don't know what to do other then that. I'm pretty sure that it was one of Windows NT's critical services that got messed up. Good ol' Microsoft, huh?
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Response Number 3
Name: Nicholas Boyce Date: September 11, 2003 at 07:12:08 Pacific
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We have NT4 Server SP6A, and same problem. Has Robert Rissler tried rebooting since he restored from C: and got up and running? If we shut our server down after a restore of \system32, the same old problem comes back again. It seems after a few hours, .exes get corrupted on our c: drive. Tested by creating a spurious directory, and leaving two .exes in, several hours later they had grown in size for no apparent reason...
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