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print spooler / buggy server
Today our printing services went out. I stopped and restarted the print services (from a remote desktop).
a. do you have to be at the server itself to do that? whatever was the cause, the server hung up--cold reboot is what I did.
b. our server has been having various little gremlins--router, firewall, etc. our server is only about 5 months old but the IT person who set it up didn't set it up to run any maintenance. i check performance logs, etc.
should i run a scandisk or checkdisk on it, or, even a test to see if the memory is okay? How would I check to see if the memory is actually working properly?
Thanks.
a. do you have to be at the server itself to do that? whatever was the cause, the server hung up--cold reboot is what I did.
b. our server has been having various little gremlins--router, firewall, etc. our server is only about 5 months old but the IT person who set it up didn't set it up to run any maintenance. i check performance logs, etc.
should i run a scandisk or checkdisk on it, or, even a test to see if the memory is okay? How would I check to see if the memory is actually working properly?
Thanks.
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B) perhaps a nice REBOOT would do.... check your SERVICES control panel and locate any AUTOMATICS that didn't start. Review the Event Viewer logs for any faults.
You should do all that you mentioned in your last sentence. this site has many memory testing utilities
http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads26.html