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by teinfo

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All NT Server 4.o with sp 6a. One server with SQL 6.5, with SQL sp5.

I have few servers were unexpected reboot in the past months. I could not find out what caused it from event view. I checked it was not related to power.

If I suppected someone reboot my server remotely within our network, how can I check it out and track him down and find out which computer.

If I can not find form audit about shutdown. Does this means that the server reboot itself may cause by user using applications or something nature? I really want to find what happen. Plase provide me any solutions that works to you.

Thank Very Much

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by buffalodan

filling the system drive will cause a restart,

reboot.exe on your system drive, unaudited, can be used to restart your machine.

next restart, put drwatson in the startup, and then read that log, after a restart

by mckaytech

My experience has been that if there is nothing in the Event Viewer, it's most likely an intermittent hardware failure although it could also be a malicious (or uninformed) user.

One thing you might want to try is to go to Control Panel-System-Startup/Shutdown tab and uncheck the "Automatically reboot" box. If the server is rebooting because of a BSOD, the server will keep the bug info on the screen until you manually reboot it. But keep in mind that this will mean the server won't come back up until you reboot it and that might not be appropriate in your operation.

paul

by pdk

I have had the same problem on an IBM Netfinity 5100 with external diskenclosure. In this case it was fluctuations in the power that did it...yes I know that IBM states that their servers can....and so on no matter what splitting the power supply upon two different groups did it in this case

by joseph.steiger

Check out your "page file" size and location, if it is becoming saturated and resides on the boot drive it will knock you down.

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