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  • December 11, 2000 at 12:24 am #2093085

    NT Server 4.0

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    by kpuller · about 22 years, 9 months ago

    My NT server keeps going through a continously reboot loop. What could be the problem.

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    • December 11, 2000 at 7:08 am #3870517

      NT Server 4.0

      by mckaytech · about 22 years, 9 months ago

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      There could be a lot of different causes but you’re going to have to get it to stop long enough to figure out the cause. What is happening is that your server is set to automatically reboot after a BSOD (blue screen of death) so what you need to dois disable that function so the blue screen information remains on the screen.

      If it will give you enough time to do it, you can disable the automatic reboot from Control Panel, System, Startup/Shutdown tab, and uncheck the box marked “automatically reboot”.

      If not, you’re probably going to have to do a parallel installation (assuming there is data to be saved) or re-install NT from scratch (if retaining the existing data is not a problem).

      One other option, if your system partition has a FAT format, you can boot into DOS and then recover the memory dump file (usually called memory.dmp) and by using the dump file utilities (dumpexam.exe, chkdump.exe), you can usually deduce the cause of the failure.

      Where I’ve seen this sort offailure most commonly is right after a hardware change (often the installation of a mis-matched memory module) so you might think back on anything that might have changed to cause this problem.

      paul

      • March 11, 2001 at 5:59 pm #3699940

        NT Server 4.0

        by kpuller · about 22 years, 6 months ago

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    • December 11, 2000 at 4:40 pm #3870305

      NT Server 4.0

      by theironman · about 22 years, 9 months ago

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      I’ve seen this issue with hardware changes as well. Any hardware / firmware updates done recently? If so, uninstall / back-rev and re-evaluate.

      • March 11, 2001 at 5:59 pm #3699941

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        by kpuller · about 22 years, 6 months ago

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    • December 12, 2000 at 2:22 am #3869726

      NT Server 4.0

      by anne.jan.elsinga · about 22 years, 9 months ago

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      Can you get in your machine while booting the Last Known Good option?

      If so, backtrack the changes you made. Reverse these changes.
      If not, try to use the debug option. This involves a second Windows NT server and a serial connection.
      Check thedocs for this option.

      • March 11, 2001 at 5:59 pm #3699900

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        by kpuller · about 22 years, 6 months ago

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    • March 11, 2001 at 5:59 pm #3699899

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      by kpuller · about 22 years, 6 months ago

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