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charlierhawkins
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‎11-13-2009 06:53 AM

Windows 2003 R2 Blue Screen

I have a Windows 2003 machine that is continually blue screening. It will run fine for several day, but then my developers report that the machine is not available, and I see the blue screen. Any information or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Windows 2003 Enterprise

vmware tools: ok

4cpu / 8gb ram

LSI Logic Parallel

SCSI Bus Sharing: None

4x HDs 40gb / 133gb / 250gb / 150gb - All disk are over 50% free.

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Troy_Clavell
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‎11-13-2009 06:57 AM

have you checked

>%SystemRoot%\MEMORY.DMP

also, check event viewer, your guest may be losing access to it's disk. Is this guest in question running on Shared or Local Disk?

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itw1979
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‎11-13-2009 07:13 AM

What else is running on the OS?

Was the VM a clean build as virtual or was it a P2V?

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charlierhawkins
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‎11-13-2009 08:00 AM

This was P2V.

After more research on this, It appears that users are RDP to this server, then connecting their local CD drives - at which point it appears the machine goes down. Maybe is related to the HD drivers on the VM?

SQL 2005 is on this machine.

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Troy_Clavell
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‎11-13-2009 09:06 AM

I would ensure proper cleanup was done after the P2V. Ensure all hardware related software and drivers are not present. Make sure your VMware Tools are current.

have a look at this thread

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/25121