Hi all,
Have a really weird issue with a Windows 2000 SBS server. A few nights a week, the server will hang, no blue screen, just a blank, black screen and has to be powered off and on again. The backup is scheduled to start at 12:15am and the server will hang at about 1:40am from event viewer logs. Exchange is not installed on the server.
I have Windows 2000 SP4 installed and BE 10.0 for SBS rev 5520 which includes SP2. The server itself is a SuperMicro box and has a HighPoint SATA RAID controller for disk, and a Symbios 8953U PCI SCSI Adapter (53C895A) connected to a Sony SDX-450V AIt tape drive. The tape drive was replaced under warranty recently, but did not help the problem. I'm not sure what the motherboard is yet, but the power supply has been replaced and the RAM. The computer has a APC Smart-UPS 1000 that is less then a year old plugged in.
We've uninstalled and reinstalled BE. Ran without any SP, with SP1 and with SP2. We've defragged the server volumes as well as changed the order that the volumes are backed up. We've purchased new tapes. Sometimes we erase the tape the night before and that helps, sometimes it doesn't.
We are at wits end with this one--considering erasing and reinstalling the entire server. Please any suggestions! I think we are out of support, but are also considering calling them.
If you need any more info or have any suggestion, please post! I will try to check the forum regularly.
Thanks.
-m