Help! Print Spooler keeps bombing out.

[Doric]

First off, I have a Compaq Proliant 720 from '99 as my print server right now (yeah - it needs to be scrapped), running Windows Server 2003 as best it can, and supporting 15 print and plot devices. It's up to date in terms of patches, and it's got a Gigabit ethernet card in it, despite the fact that it'll only support 300Mbps or thereabouts (again - it's old as hell).

Since putting 2K3 on this box, my users' spoolsv.exe service has been unreilable. It'll bomb out repeatedly, and seriously compromises their systems. This has the biggest effect on applications like Adobe Photoshop and Acrobat. These apps just lock up, refuse to open documents, or in some extreme cases, even corrupt the files that they did manage to get open. No good.

When the Print Spooler service dies, the printers disappear and they're unable to print. All I need to do is go in and restart the service, but it's inevitable that it'll fail again.

This seems to have a greater effect on Windows 2000 machines than Windows XP machines. Again, all are up-to-date with the latest patches, etc. I'm also certain that it's not a worm.

No real strong activity on the TCP/IP port designated for printing, either...?

Anyone have any thoughts?

Thanks. Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[jlr69t]

Now I don?t know much about Windows Server 2003 but oh well... Being that the printer is on its last legs; the memory in the printer could be going bad. Does Windows Server 2003 support the printer you?re using or are you using some generic drivers? Like I said I don?t know much about Windows Server 2003 but these two things to think about...