10-16-2007, 03:49 AM
Zenxeon Wrote:What are your server specs if you dont mind me asking?
Not at all. I'm using most of an old Gateway. (I've replaced quite a few parts.) It's an AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.1 GHz with 512 MB (1 DIMM) of DDR Corsair ValueSelect. The motherboard is a piece of crap from PC Chips, but the only other new Socket A motherboard I could find was hundreds of dollars. The hard drive is a 250 GB IDE drive from Western Digital (I think).
Come to think of it, the only original part is the CPU. I've even replaced the heatsink and fan. (The fan died one night, but the computer stayed running. The quietness and slight burning smell scared the crap out of me, but everything seems okay with the new fan.)
Anyway, I'm thinking the issue might be with a particular Windows Update. Unfortunately, I have no idea which one. Someone else on this forum mentioned that 2003 SP2 broke srcds.exe for him, but reverting back (to SP1 or no SP, he didn't say) solved the problem. I'm running SP1, but an update included in SP2 that I installed separately could be the culprit. I don't really feel like uninstalling 19 updates at a time (many of which are likely to be compilations of previous updates), however, so if anyone has an idea which one it could be, I'd love to hear it.
The issue could just be any service pack at all, which wouldn't be a problem for me because I saved the uninstall data. This could prevent an unsolvable issue for some, though. Uninstalling a service pack without that data probably means a reinstall of the OS.
I think I'll try either removing SP1 or dual booting with a clean install of Server 2003. Hopefully it's not a hardware issue.