Start>run>verifier Custom Settings Enable Special Pool for all non Microsoft Drivers (you can sort on the vendor column when you get to the screen where you select drivers).
Reboot Next time the box crashes let's look at the dump. Thanks, Brian Desmond [email protected] c - 312.731.3132 Active Directory, 4th Ed - http://www.briandesmond.com/ad4/ Microsoft MVP - https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Brian -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 10:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Frequent crashes on a virtual machine Is there anything in under events for that VM? Also, check under /var/log for that ESX host to see if you have any errors. Original Message: ----------------- From: [email protected] Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 10:27:27 -0500 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Frequent crashes on a virtual machine Thanks, but it doesn't apply here. This was a VM "built from scratch" from the VM console. It was never a physical machine. -- Richard "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote on 05/04/2009 10:14:14 AM: > Did you do cleanup after you P2V'd your server? > > Open a command prompt on the Windows VM (Start --> Run --> cmd). > set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1 > devmgmt.msc > In the device management console (View --> Show Hidden Devices). > Uninstall the devices that are no longer required. Such as old network > devices. > > Mike > > Original Message: > ----------------- > From: [email protected] > Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 08:57:39 -0500 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Frequent crashes on a virtual machine > > > Yes. > > The crashes do not necessarily coincide with VIPRE scans, etc. > -- > Richard D. McClary > Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group > > ASPCA(r) > 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 > Urbana, IL 61802 > > [email protected] > > P: 217-337-9761 > C: 217-417-1182 > F: 217-337-9761 > www.aspca.org > > The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is > from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals(r) (ASPCA > (r)) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may > contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not > the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any > dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this > e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have > received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email > and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any > printout thereof. > > > "Richard Stovall" <[email protected]> wrote on 05/04/2009 > 08:50:58 AM: > > > Do you have Vipre on these VMs? > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 9:43 AM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: Frequent crashes on a virtual machine > > > > > > Greetings! > > > > Most of our user files are being moved to a VMWare VM. What is > > disturbing is, when I log in, I am frequently greeting with a notice > > that the machine re-booted from a crash... > > > > My users have never noticed anyting amiss as it reboots pretty > > quickly (so far). However, once it did this while it was being > > backed up, so a bunch of user files were skipped that day. > > > > I get this set of messages: > > > > Category (102) Event ID: 1003 > > > > Error code 0000004e, parameter1 0000009a, parameter2 00009028, > > parameter3 00000006, parameter4 00000002. > > > > Again, this is a VM. Google searches pretty much all point to > > solutions on a physical machine. > > > > Thanks! > > -- > > Richard D. McClary > > Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group > > > > ASPCA(r) > > 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 > > Urbana, IL 61802 > > > > [email protected] > > > > P: 217-337-9761 > > C: 217-417-1182 > > F: 217-337-9761 > > www.aspca.org > > > > The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments > > hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to > Animals(r) > > (ASPCA(r)) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named > > herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential > > information. 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