What happens if you unplug the network cable? Able to look at taskman on any of them?
-sc > -----Original Message----- > From: Luke [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 10:57 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network. > > The Network Administrator and I have been working on this all morning. > Since about 7:00AM random machines on the Local Network have been > slipping into and out of a random state of unresponsiveness ("Freezing"). > > The symptoms are pretty serious - I have seen it take up to 5 minutes to > bring an already open window from the background to the foreground on > client machines - and there are servers that are so unresponsive that I am > not even able to log into them (enter Username and Password and nothing > happens for the next 30min.). We have had to cold boot one server 3 times > in the past hour! > > This problem is not specific to any user, profile, machine, OS, network > switch, > etc. - at least from what we have been able to Identify. So far it has > affected > Windows 7, XP and Server 2003. However, this issue is not affecting > everyone on the network. My Colleague sitting right next to me has been > having all kinds of trouble with his PC and I have not. > > We have found that cold booting the affected machines does help a little or > at least for a while, but more often than not the machine will just return to > its > unresponsive state after a few minutes. On the machines that I have that are > accessible I am attempting scan with Vipre. > > We are seriously starting to suspect that Vipre is doing something (in the > background that we cant see) that is actually causing all this. We completely > removed Vipre from one PC that was having trouble and it seemed to fix the > problem. The PC has been running fine since. > > Any thoughts? > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
