"Dan" wrote:

> I just built 4 new servers for our development team in their own A.D. with
> Exchange on one member and IIS on another member (2 DC's).  A week after they
> had begun dev the boxes this morning turned out altogether fried.  I mean,
> they were as hosed up as I've ever seen a Windows box (but all 4 were like
> this).  The boxes were simply at a blank screen (black) and the monitor was
> still getting a feed from the system (monitor light was green).  When I
> rebooted the box would simply display the splash screen from the hardware
> manufacturer, run through a super quick diag of the hardware and go back to
> the black screen.  On one of the boxes a while bar would show up towards the
> bottom of the screen as if something was loading but it would finish after a
> sec and that was it... nothing else would happen but the system would still
> be running.  I tried to boot into safe mode and when I hit the option to boot
> safe mode the system just froze right there...  How could this happen to four
> boxes at once?  I know it could easily be dismissed that the dev team did
> something here but I highly doubt it since they were really only working on
> two of the systems.  The boxes were 2K3 servers with SP1 and all the latest
> updates as of 2 weeks ago.
> Dan

> I just built 4 new servers for our development team in their own A.D.
> with Exchange on one member and IIS on another member (2 DC's).  A
> week after they had begun dev the boxes this morning turned out
> altogether fried.  I mean, they were as hosed up as I've ever seen a
> Windows box (but all 4 were like this).  The boxes were simply at a
> blank screen (black) and the monitor was still getting a feed from
> the system (monitor light was green).  When I rebooted the box would
> simply display the splash screen from the hardware manufacturer, run
> through a super quick diag of the hardware and go back to the black
> screen.  On one of the boxes a while bar would show up towards the
> bottom of the screen as if something was loading but it would finish
> after a sec and that was it... nothing else would happen but the
> system would still be running.  I tried to boot into safe mode and
> when I hit the option to boot safe mode the system just froze right
> there...  How could this happen to four boxes at once?  I know it
> could easily be dismissed that the dev team did something here but I
> highly doubt it since they were really only working on two of the
> systems.  The boxes were 2K3 servers with SP1 and all the latest
> updates as of 2 weeks ago.
> Dan

"Dan" <D**@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:343DE5CB-9ED3-455B-BC51-38839A4EE6C9@microsoft.com...
>I just built 4 new servers for our development team in their own A.D. with
> Exchange on one member and IIS on another member (2 DC's).  A week after
> they
> had begun dev the boxes this morning turned out altogether fried.  I mean,
> they were as hosed up as I've ever seen a Windows box (but all 4 were like
> this).  The boxes were simply at a blank screen (black) and the monitor
> was
> still getting a feed from the system (monitor light was green).  When I
> rebooted the box would simply display the splash screen from the hardware
> manufacturer, run through a super quick diag of the hardware and go back
> to
> the black screen.  On one of the boxes a while bar would show up towards
> the
> bottom of the screen as if something was loading but it would finish after
> a
> sec and that was it... nothing else would happen but the system would
> still
> be running.  I tried to boot into safe mode and when I hit the option to
> boot
> safe mode the system just froze right there...  How could this happen to
> four
> boxes at once?  I know it could easily be dismissed that the dev team did
> something here but I highly doubt it since they were really only working
> on
> two of the systems.  The boxes were 2K3 servers with SP1 and all the
> latest
> updates as of 2 weeks ago.
> Dan