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Windows 2003 Server fail to start

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by lester

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My Windows 2003 Server with SP2 freeze and I do a hard reset. It fail to start after that. The screen will stay at "Windows 2003 Server" with the running bar. Hard Disk indicator blinks heavily during the start but stay cool after that. I can start the server only in "Safe" & "Safe with Networking" mode.
What could be the problem and what is the solution to this?

Many thanks,
- Lester

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by notsochiguy

...in safe modes, I would look at two areas:

recent changes to device drivers

Something that is set to run at startup (HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run or a service that is set to fire off automatically)

If neither of those are fruitful, you can try running a system diagnostic from the BIOS, to see if there are any errors generated by the system itself (I've seen issues with faulty RAM cause problems like this...particularly on HP Proliant servers).

Hope this helps, and best of luck!

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