Saturday, January 26, 2008
Windows Server 2003 64-bit - Logon Problem

I had a strange problem today with my Windows 2003 64-bit server: it rebooted itself!  After it rebooted, I logged in and bang: BSOD!  Again and again.

I tried booting in safe mode and I noticed that the system was taking a few seconds to load ACPITABL.DAT.  Having no idea what that file is, I did a little search and didn't found answers to my exact problem but found enough info to tell me that it was some kind of hard disk/drivers issue.

I have a couple of external USB drives connected to that server for backup purposes so I decided to turn them off and then restarted the server.  Bingo!  I was then able to log without problems.  I then turned on the external drives again, without problems and no files damaged.

I was able to fix the problem but I have no idea what was the problem or what caused it.  Go figure!

Saturday, January 26, 2008 8:43:36 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)  #    Comments [0]  | 
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