[win2k] hangs on preparing network for connection

[JeroenV]

Hi,

I've a majour problem so hopefully you can help me.

I've restarted the Windows 2000 server and after that the server hangs on the preparing network for connection. After a couple of minutes the systems returns a message with the following message "A service or driver is failed to load. Check Event viewer for more information" After i clicked ok the systems stays in the preparing fase.

Before all this i've checked the server for spyware and virusses so i've installed a Symantec corporate edition with firewall. This program has deleted some stuff so maybe that is the problem?

I've checked the event viewer and it tells me that Routing and remote access service has a problem. But that's strange because i've never changed something.

I've disabled the services but after that the system still not pass the preparing fase

What can i do? How can the system pass the preparing fase?

Thanks

[Gurgelmeyer]

Don't worry - it's probably not a virus. Check the eventlog to see what service fails now (most of them depend upon eachother) and disable that. Keep doing this until the message stops popping up at boot.

A lot of things can cause this behaviour - also, security updates sometimes break stuff - did you install any of those recently?

Best regards,

Gurgelmeyer

[valter]

Be very, very carefull if you're running AD on your Win2k box ... don't just disable services for nothing, it must be the reason for that ... clean your event log and then restart the server, then check the event log again, and write down all errors (red cross), warnings (yellow exclamation) and info, including event id number, source, and the body of the error ... an excellent resource site for event log is eventid.net ... subscription costs 10 US$/year, **** cheap, and life saving web site ... or just post your errors and warnings here, so we will try to pinpoint the problem(s) ...