Hi,

I have a very small network (2003 server + 3 XP SP2 clients). The
entire thing was just rebuilt from scratch with all boxes completely
reinstalled but old user data (mostly piles of ms word files) migrated.

things work well except that clients started crashing miserably. it
happens randomly but most often clients crash when you press 'enter'
after having entered username and password.

Very fresh virus scanners find nothing.

Clients are runing on different hardware so i guess hardware
incompatibility is not likely.

But then what is...?

btw the 'crash' here is always a reboot -- you press the enter key,
screen goes black (no blue screen) and box reboots.

naturally this doesn't happen just always but only sometimes, say
approximately once in three logon attempts.

Would your very fresh virus scanner be McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.0i?

Oli


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negative. i tried kaspersky and f-prot.

-- shu

Hi,
shu.hadjiatanassov@gmail.com wrote:
May be the bluescreen is there.
Did you disable the Automatic reboot in system properties to catch it?
Any entries in the event log, which are pointing to problems?

You can also try to disable the Prefetch stuff (or clean up the Prefetch
folder, this caused random Bluescreens on some of my machines in the past.)
http://www.theeldergeek.com/prefetch...-_altering.htm

Best greetings from Germany
Olaf

Thanks Olaf...

yes, there is an entry in the event log. it says that the machine
crashed very useful.

i have not disable the automatic reboot -- doesn't sound very useful.
can try this...

never heard of this... will try.

Thanks.