Server issues

Loke · 2 Oct 2012 at 14:59

I've taken a server from the office home to do some maintenance on it. During the maintenance I've noticed that some of the drivers needed updating so I took it into the living room and plugged it into the network.

When I boot the machine, it reboots as soon as Windows has loaded...the problem vanish when I unplug the network cable...the problem persists in both network ports.

I'm going to swap the network cable to rule that out after work today, but if that's not the cause. What could the cause be?

dunn2010 · 2 Oct 2012 at 15:01

what happens if you boot without net cable, logon with local admin pass, then plug network cable in?

leigh_boy · 2 Oct 2012 at 17:23

seen this before with server 2008, was becasue of ipv6 in my case

Loke · 3 Oct 2012 at 10:54

I replaced the Network card and everything works fine and dandy.

I'll try the network card in an old pc and see if it's a hardware fault, if not I'm putting it down to the drivers.

Knubje · 3 Oct 2012 at 13:25

Drivers and or network card itself causing this almost undoubtedly.