The IT Ninja

I have an AD server running Windows Server 2008 R2 that, for some reason, reboots itself every Saturday morning around 3 or 4 AM.

I've checked scheduled tasks, error logs, removed the antivirus service to see if that was causing it... Nothing. I literally have to get up every Saturday morning at 6 AM to run down to the office and power it back on before business starts.

Any ideas? I'm completely lost as to where to investigate next.

How long has this been happening? If is not in your schedule tasks, then there must be a service running on it causing this. Is there any remote connections to it that have root access? They could be causing this.

Kina wrote:How long has this been happening? If is not in your schedule tasks, then there must be a service running on it causing this. Is there any remote connections to it that have root access? They could be causing this.

Hmm, I hadn't thought about services. I assumed that anything running at a specific time would have been listed under scheduled tasks.

It's been doing this for a few months, and as far as I can tell nothing had been changed that would have caused this. I'll definitely try looking through the running services next time I'm in there though and update then.

either switch to another service or call the provider of
your server because that is a very big problem, and if they are
not willing to ix it then it's time to go to another service

Brentnauer wrote:I have an AD server running Windows Server 2008 R2 that, for some reason, reboots itself every Saturday morning around 3 or 4 AM.

I've checked scheduled tasks, error logs, removed the antivirus service to see if that was causing it... Nothing. I literally have to get up every Saturday morning at 6 AM to run down to the office and power it back on before business starts.

Any ideas? I'm completely lost as to where to investigate next.

Either the powersource or psu might be the cause , or the mobo.