Win NT 4 Server crash...

[Chuck]

My Win NT 4 (SP4) did a really weird crash the other day. It did a BSOD, but the screen was corrupted by lots of randomly spaces flashing colourd ASCI symobls. Very weird. Is this just a one off thing, or do you think I have a real problem?

 

[dirtboy]

I'd say it is a real problem!

 

[Dave]

Hmmmm ... yes the flashing colored blocks syndrome ... Whenever I've seen this it was caused by the following:
1. video card fried
2. ram fried

'rotsa 'ruck

 

[bill_mr]

or of course you could have just had a power surge / brownout

if it has worked well since that is probably it

what did the eventvwr say?

 

[Chuck]

That was the strage thing. The event manager didn't say anything of use, just that on bootup the server didn't shutdown gracefully. I couldn't really see what the BSOD was saying because of the screen corruption, and was trying to fix it fast.