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EE, I have a Dell Tower Windows Server 2012 installation for a client. Our first production venture into WS 2012. It is the only server on site. Franklin Wordmaster Deluxe Wm-1055 Manual. It is a PDC, DNS, DHCP, File and Application Server. RAID 5 across 4 500GB HDs. Has one 300 GB OS partition and the rest a separate partition for files storage. Users connect back to it as store for Quickbooks company files.

OS is Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition (fully patched) Backup is Veritas BAckup.put server 2003 (32bit) on it, put in one of Dell SAS 5/E vs Dell PERC 5/E. They're running Windows Server 2008 R2 and using them in an application.DELL PERC H310 H710 H710P H810 SPERC8 CONTROLLER DRIVER.

The QB Database Manager is running on it. All QB updates, patches and revisions have been applied. It is backed up by Appassure to a NAS and is the core server. Otherwise the users (15) access it for obvious Directory Services and a file store from time to time. User profiles are local to their workstations. THE ISSUE: The server will freeze roughly every 30 minutes.

It becomes unresponsive to local access and the end user workstations (not all, everytime >but most of them, most of the time) will go 'Not Responding' in most apps they are working with.Quickbooks in particular. We disabled appassure as it was on a 30 minute schedule, but no help.

Vendor blamed it on the RAID card so we upgraded the RAID card from a PERC H310 (no cache) to an H710 (500MB cache). Updated BIOS and Chipset firmware.

Applied all MS updates. Manually set the page file to minimum 42GB max 52GB. *Oddly with the page file managed automatically by Windows it would never create a page file larger than 4.5 GB. Also, noticed in event viewer, the DFSR and DFS Namespace services would fail on a regular basis. No clue why either of these services were running. The DFS role is not installed and there are no other servers on the network to replicate to. I disabled the services with no obvious repercussions, although it did not stop the issue we are having.

We swapped the card this weekend and I put it back in place yesterday. Free Nokia 2690 Game Download Mpbus on this page. I remoted into the box via RDP within a few hours and it is happening still.

Any thoughts or help is appreciated. Ok so its a brand new server and a brand new server 2012 installation. Then most likely something is intermittently failing in the server such as hardware. Or the antivirus your using on the server is causing it freeze up. Ive seen servers crash all the time because of AV software and then we uninstall it and it works flawlessly what AV and version are you using? Has it been proven to work with 2012 since its so new.