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i would be checking for malware first off......google and download hijack this....<br />
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I would also run sfc /scannow and replace and corrupt files
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i would be checking for malware first off......google and download hijack this....

I would also run sfc /scannow and replace and corrupt files

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I was able to resolve this, it turned out that one of the hard drives was bad, and it was causing all the issues.
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I was able to resolve this, it turned out that one of the hard drives was bad, and it was causing all the issues.

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I have an HP DL385 running Server 2003 Enterprise R2, and it was hung up today when I came in. &nbsp;The first time it hung and I rebooted I had to enter safe mode and run chkdsk 3 times on all the volumes, and disable all my app services to get it to boot. I can bring it back for 1-2 minutes if I end explorer.exe, then restart it from task manager, but it never actually kills the process. I am now able to restart it and it will come right up, but the explorer is still crashing.
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I have an HP DL385 running Server 2003 Enterprise R2, and it was hung up today when I came in.  The first time it hung and I rebooted I had to enter safe mode and run chkdsk 3 times on all the volumes, and disable all my app services to get it to boot. I can bring it back for 1-2 minutes if I end explorer.exe, then restart it from task manager, but it never actually kills the process. I am now able to restart it and it will come right up, but the explorer is still crashing.

explorer.exe hanging up constantly

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).