Also try memtest86 from www.memtest86.com

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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alverson, Thomas M. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 30 November 2001 17:50
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: Server why, why me
> 
> 
> A good free ram test program is available a 
> www.simmtester.com.  It creates
> a bootable (dos) floppy that will run a ram test for as many 
> times as you
> wish.  If you have a hard failure you will probably know 
> withing 5 minutes
> (somewhere in the first pass).  I had one system that would 
> fail after about
> 20 minutes when things warmed up.
> 
> Tom
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Field [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 12:43 PM
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: RE: Server why, why me
> 
> 
> I have seen this happen with PcAnywhere.
> Remotely killed it and the server decided to play again.
> 
> Nick
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tener, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 4:01 PM
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: Server why, why me
> 
> Came into work today and my exchange server 5.5 on windows nt 
> sp6 was not
> responding. I dont know how this happened, the only thing 
> that was on the
> desktop was the cursor and wallpaper no icons or start menu.  
> I tried to
> press Ctrl alt del and nothing happened.  Couldnt get the 
> server to respond
> for some reason.  The cusor would move when I moved the mouse 
> and thats it
> so I pressed the big button.  The server is up and running 
> fine now and I
> check the event viewer and the only thing it gave me back was 
> an unexpected
> shutdown occoured at 11:46pm.  Did this ever happen to anyone 
> before.  All
> thoughts would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> Rich
> 
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