so here is the story. i have my server in my room about 15 ft from my desk.
it is a stand alone machine with no monitor/keyboard/mouse etc.. i control it through remote desktop. one day i was sitting at my desk and i heard the hard drive start acting up. by acting up i just mean it had alot of activity. i tryed logging on remote desktop and was unable to connect. i tryed connecting to the network drives and again was unable to connect. so i rebooted it with the reset button on the front of the case. again i tryed to connect and was unable. i shut it down and hooked up the needed peripherals to boot it up normally. i started it up again and it will get just past the loading screen and freezes on the default blue background and goes no farther. i tryed booting in safemode and it stops in the same place. i have disconnected all other drives in the machine with the same result.
my server runs serves multiple purposes. it is a fileserver for myself and my roomates. it is a webserver hosting my website, i also host a ventrilo server and was playing around with phpbb. I do know i left a large security hole in phpbb when i installed it so being hacked is a possibility but i tend to think its more of a hardware problem. a virus is another possibility but my AV is set to update and scan daily in the middle of the night.
so now i am unsure what else to do. I'm thinking of pulling the main HD out of the server and installing it in my main machine where i can run an AV scan, checkdick and defrag. if those don't work i'm not sure what else to try. i do have some critical data on the drive that NEEDS to be recovered so if you have any ideas please feel free to offer them up.
i need to get this fixed asap so i will be checking this thread often for responses.
the server hardware is
amdxp2700
512MB pc2700
1x160gb primary hd
2x250gb hd's in mirrored raid array
pci vcard
generic ECS mobo
os is win2k server with all updates as far as i know.
thx
twump
it is a stand alone machine with no monitor/keyboard/mouse etc.. i control it through remote desktop. one day i was sitting at my desk and i heard the hard drive start acting up. by acting up i just mean it had alot of activity. i tryed logging on remote desktop and was unable to connect. i tryed connecting to the network drives and again was unable to connect. so i rebooted it with the reset button on the front of the case. again i tryed to connect and was unable. i shut it down and hooked up the needed peripherals to boot it up normally. i started it up again and it will get just past the loading screen and freezes on the default blue background and goes no farther. i tryed booting in safemode and it stops in the same place. i have disconnected all other drives in the machine with the same result.
my server runs serves multiple purposes. it is a fileserver for myself and my roomates. it is a webserver hosting my website, i also host a ventrilo server and was playing around with phpbb. I do know i left a large security hole in phpbb when i installed it so being hacked is a possibility but i tend to think its more of a hardware problem. a virus is another possibility but my AV is set to update and scan daily in the middle of the night.
so now i am unsure what else to do. I'm thinking of pulling the main HD out of the server and installing it in my main machine where i can run an AV scan, checkdick and defrag. if those don't work i'm not sure what else to try. i do have some critical data on the drive that NEEDS to be recovered so if you have any ideas please feel free to offer them up.
i need to get this fixed asap so i will be checking this thread often for responses.
the server hardware is
amdxp2700
512MB pc2700
1x160gb primary hd
2x250gb hd's in mirrored raid array
pci vcard
generic ECS mobo
os is win2k server with all updates as far as i know.
thx
twump