You could always blank the password with ntpasswd (http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/ <http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/> ), then use the windows recovery console to disable whatever services/drivers you need to prevent from starting.
From: Daniel Rodriguez [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 6:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 2003 Server Issue. I have tried Safe Mode, Safe Mode Command Prompt, Last Known Good Settings, and selected the option to Not to reboot on System Error. I am at a total loss on how to recover from this. All I know is, the person who had the admin rights tried to change the password and it not here and there is now one here who remembers what that password was. I am thinking that maybe there is a sevice that is/was tied to the Admin password. On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Jeff <[email protected]> wrote: how about last known good? On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Daniel Rodriguez <[email protected]> wrote: I have a Dell PowerEdge with Windows 2003 Standard Server. Someone with admin rights has done something to the server. Issue: When powering up the server, shows that it is loading, gets to the grey screen with status messages. When it gets to 'Network Connections' there is an error message stating that a service or drivers did not load and to look at the Event View for more details. It then shows the login screen for a split second and then Windows performs a shutdown. This happens when I try to go into Safe Mode, as well. Ideas? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
