We recently installed a few Dell 2950 servers. Some in a cluster environment, some not. All running some flavor of Windows Server 2003. A few of the ones that are, or were (some roles changed), connected to PowerVaults MD3000s in a clustered environment don't want to stay shutdown. If I shutdown the server immediatly starts back up. There are no errors in the event log surrounding this, so it dosent appear that "a service crash upon shutdown is fooling the computer to think that it ended in the error state, and thus focing a power up".
I have not yet had time to try turning off services or do much more than check the BIOS for power on settings, and in one situation - remove the MD3000 connection (as a reslut of the role change.)
-All of the servers that do this are running either Exchange 2007 or SQL 2005
-If I press the power button right after boot, while everthings initalizing, unit will stay shut down
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