Computer locked

[morganlefay]

Well it only happen once for me.....after a series of thunderstorms and powerouts (over a week or so)

The APC was configured with the administrator account.....

I could still terminal server in though ......so was able to restart.

Removed the Power Chute software....and it hasnt happened again????

MLF

[nihil]

So you think its a memory leak? Is there anyway to find out what program might have caused it?

You might take a look in the system logs?

I do recall this sort of thing when XP was quite new and there were issues with power saving, hibernate/sleep, and some hardware configurations.

Like I said, unless it is happening regularly, I would just put it down to "one of those things". If you cannot replicate or provoke the situation, your chances of finding its cause are zero.

[MURACU]

We got it rolling out patches sometimes but it was extremly rare. I was in charge of a PC parc of over 15000 computers and it only happened 3 or 4 times in a year. As far as i could tell it was linked, as has been said here, to either an unfinished shutdown or a hibernation.
Morganlefay you need to be really unlucky to get it on a server but the UPS can do the trick.

[morganlefay]

The server didnt actually lock....

Just the username and password fields were greyed out....so you couldnt access them....locally

Could still log in remotely......all services running...nothing in the logs u=other then the power stuff

I attribute it to the APC software using the admin account.....and with all the power outs that week.....it got .................confused

MLF