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win nt server not powering down.

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by ppkehoe

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When i try to power down or restart my server it just hangs and eventually i have to power it off with the power button. I had tried stopping services but still no effect. Does anyone know why would this happen.

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by phil.kesteven

Hiya. What service pack are you running on your server? I've heard on the grape-vine that if your running SP6, this may cause problems because its 'buggie'. All of the servers we've got on-site (Compaq Proliants) are all running SP5 and close down successfully.

by dc1

Does the server hang stating shutting down services or does it hang before it recycles itself? Look into vendor BIOS updates, services with dependancies, high network volumne of users attached to server, etc.

by valachi

As the first response goes into legend area("my experience...") the second one is sensible. I WOULD recommend to install SP 6.0a (which repairs the bugs in SP 6.0 - security and Lotus notes related) and try to see (check event logs etc.) if it isn'ta stuck service that prevents the shutdown.

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